Camille

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27 December 2014 on FR2: Camille Berthollet, 15 years old, violinist, flaming hair and disarming smile, wins the talent show Prodiges, dedicated to young French classical musicians aged 6 to 16 in front of 5 million viewers! “Under Camille Berthollet’s bow, breathtaking and charismatic, Vivaldi’s Summer becomes a whirlwind of notes and emotions” (FR2). And here is her first album today. Conceived on a corner of a table by Camille and her sister Julie (also a violinist and present on the record), with the freshness and spontaneity of adolescence, the track listing is an anthology of famous pieces: from Vivaldi’s Summer to The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, from Oblivion by Piazzolla (with Gautier Capuçon, a member of the Prodiges jury and thus patron of his protégé) to Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, this recording was made in Paris and Clermont Ferrand. A superb album recorded by a young 16-year-old talent, and whose program has the freshness, energy and whimsy of her age.
“The best thing is to come and listen to form your own opinion about classical music. Some people imagine that there are only a few elderly people in the halls, that classical music is not alive. What my album and Prodiges show is that this music is also youth” Camille Berthollet.