Charismatic, inspiring and a true storyteller. The French-Belgian top cellist Camille Thomas (1988) is it all. She is coming to The Hague for the first time and will delight with her Stradivarius Amare in Elgar's glowing Cello Concerto."My talent is making music and with that I can comfort people."

Camille Thomas was only four years old when she held her first cello. That tasted like more, and her rapid progress allowed her to take lessons with legendary cellist Marcel Bardon. In 2006, she moved to Berlin to study at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, and continued her education with Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar. She won numerous awards including the prestigious French Victoires de la Musique in 2014. In 2017, she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon involving several enthusiastically received albums.

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Meanwhile, she also rapidly stormed the world's major music stages in recent years. Camille Thomas worked with conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Marc Soustrot, Kent Nagano, Stéphane Denève and with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de Bordeaux and Brussels Philharmonic. During the corona period, she captivated millions of people around the world with her remarkable videos: playing in empty museums in Paris. Anyway, she makes great use of social media. "It is fascinating to notice that I can reach many young people that way," she told the Nederlands Dagblad. She is also driven by a passion to inspire others to experience the wonder and emotion of classical music: "I am convinced that music has the power to make you feel everything more intensely."

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Now she is coming to The Hague for the first time to solo with us. According to Sven Arne Tepl, general and artistic director of the Residentie Orkest, she is a cellist you must have heard. "You cannot escape her passionate story that she knows how to tell note for note," he said. Fun fact is that her cello has been in The Hague before. Since 2019, she has been playing the famous Feuermann-Stradivarius from 1730 that once belonged to one of the leading cellists of the twentieth century: Emmanuel Feuermann. Who regularly played with the Residentie Orkest, such as in 1937 in Dvořák's Cello Concerto . That was a while ago so come and listen especially now on Oct. 14 or 15 to this young, very talented cellist!