Cellist Edgar Moreau, born in 1994, is a prizewinner of the Rostropovich Competition (2009), the Tchaikovsky Competition (2011), and Young Concert Artists (2014). He received two Victoires de la Musique Classique (2013 and 2015), an ECHO Klassik (2016), and was named an ECHO Rising Star in 2017. He has been supported by the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations, and was awarded the Adami Classical Discovery (2012) and the Young Soloist Prize of the Francophone Public Radios (2013). Since 2023, he has been professor of cello at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
He has performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Philharmonie (Berlin), Musikverein and Konzerthaus (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), La Fenice (Venice), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), Wigmore Hall (London), and at major festivals including Verbier, Salzburg, Gstaad, Tsinandali, Menton, Lugano and many others.
He has worked with leading conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, François-Xavier Roth, Myung-Whun Chung, Marin Alsop, Andris Poga, Tugan Sokhiev, Elim Chan, Manfred Honeck, Lahav Shani, Mikko Franck, Jakub Hrůša, Alain Altinoglu, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vasily Petrenko, Charles Dutoit, and Nathalie Stutzmann, and has appeared with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre de Paris, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, and WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, among others.
Chamber music plays a central role in his career, and he has performed with Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, Lisa Batiashvili, Julian Rachlin, Bertrand Chamayou, and with his siblings, all of whom are musicians.
He records exclusively for Erato–Warner Classics: Play with pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique (2014); Giovincello with Il Pomo d’Oro and Riccardo Minasi (ECHO Klassik 2016); a Debussy album (2017); a duo recital with David Kadouch featuring works by Franck, Poulenc, Strohl and De la Tombelle; the Offenbach and Gulda concertos with Les Forces Majeures conducted by Raphaël Merlin; the Saint-Saëns piano trios with Renaud Capuçon and Bertrand Chamayou; A Family Affair (2020) with works by Dvořák and Korngold, and Transmission, dedicated to Jewish musical heritage, with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Michael Sanderling.
In 2023, he released the cello concertos by Dutilleux and Weinberg with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Andris Poga. His latest release, Rococo (2024), includes Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Sanderling, as well as works for cello and piano by Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Dvořák, and Shostakovich, in duo with David Kadouch.
He studied with Philippe Muller at the Paris Conservatoire and with Frans Helmerson in Kronberg. He made his concerto debut at age 11 performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin.
He plays a 1711 David Tecchler cello and a Dominique Peccatte bow.