Raphaël Sévère

Raphaël Sévère (born 15 September 1994) is a French clarinettist.

After winning the Tokyo Competition at the age of twelve and gaining a nomination as ‘Solo Instrumental Discovery’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique when aged fifteen, Raphaël Sévère went on to win the prestigious Young Concerts Artists International Auditions in New York in November 2013, where he was awarded First Prize and eight special prizes.

Aged 8, he took up the clarinet at the Conservatoire of Nantes. At 14, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris where he obtained in June 2013 the master of arts degree.

Raphaël Sévère has been invited to play as a soloist with many French orchestras and internationally with the National Philharmonic of Russia, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St Luke's, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He performed at Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Auditorium du Louvre, KKL Lucerne, New York Lincoln Center.

In the field of chamber music, he performed with Prazák Quartet, Modigliani Quartet, Quatuor Ebène, Trio Les Esprits, Martha Argerich, Boris Berezovsky, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Adam Laloum, Gidon Kremer, David Grimal, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Gary Hoffman, Xavier Philips, François Salque.

His CDs has been rewarded by Télérama (ffff Évènement), Diapason (Gold diapason), Classic Info Disque (Revelation), Classica Repertoire (Discovery). His Brahms CD (Mirare) was rewarded the Gold diapason of the year 2015.

• Récital de musique française, Hort 536, live concert held on 2007June 23 in Cholet. Works by Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Pierné with Tünde Hajdu, pianist.
• Opus 2, Thys 004, July 2010. Works by Bohuslav Martinu, Emil Cossetto, Sergei Taneïev, Witold Lutoslawski, Zoltán Kodály, Malcolm Arnold, Arthur Honegger, Ferruccio Busoni, Jean Françaix with Tünde Hajdu, pianist.
• Folksongs, Naïve V5365, May 2014. Vocal works by Berio, Brahms, Falla, Granados, Obradors with Nora Gubisch, mezzo-soprano and Alain Altinoglu, pianist and conductor.
• Brahms, Mirare 250, September 2014. Trio op.114 and sonatas op.120 with Victor Julien-Laferrière, cello and Adam Laloum, piano.
• Brahms, Hindemith, Mirare 282, November 2015 : Quintets by Brahms and Hindemith with Prazák Quartet.