Named “Classical Revelation 2010” by Adami the cellist Camille Thomas is born in Paris in 1988. She is currently studying with Frans Helmerson at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. She first studied with Marcel Bardon and Philippe Muller in France before joining the class of Stephan Forck in the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Camille has had masterclasses with cellists such as David Geringas, Wolfgang Boettcher, Natalia Shakovskaya, Ralph Kirschbaum, Ivan Monighetti, Boris Baraz and Steven Isserlis.
Competition successes began as early as nine and ten years old, when she won two years running the first Prize at the unanimous decision of the jury with congratulations at the Léopold Bellan competition in Paris. Aged eighteen, she won the European Edmond Baert competition in Bruxelles, and aged twenty, the 2d prize of the International Janigro competition in Croatia, where she also received the special prize of the Jeunesses musicales croates. In 2010 she is awarded at the unanimous decision of the jury from one of the three german scorlardships of the Yamaha Music Fondation of Europe and holds the scholarships of Villa Musica in Mainz and LiveMusicNow e.V. in Cologne.
She has performed in a number of Europeans countries and made her solo debut in June 2007 playing the Dvorak concerto with the Cappella Academica Orchestra of Berlin, under the direction of Kristiina Poska. In the same year she was also invited to play as soloist in the high profile "Exzellenz-Konzert" of the Berlin Hanns Eisler Hochschule, patronized by Daniel Barenboim.
Parallel to her solo performances, Camille is also a passionate chamber musician. Strong influences include musicians such as Tabea Zimmerman, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Paul Meyer, and members of the Ysaÿe quartet and the Vogler quartet. During her Paris studies, she was a member of cello octet Jean-Louis Florentz, supported by the association of the city of Paris “Paris jeunes talents”.
Invited at the Festival of Santander in Spain in summer 2009, she played there, among other concerts, the Ravel trio with Zakhar Bron and Elena Kiseleva. An eclectic musician, she created with the actress Marie-Rose Carlié the show “Arthur Rimbaud et la solitude du bateau ivre”, performed in Paris at the Hôtel de Chaume and the Cité des Arts between 2005 and 2006.
Camille is very thankful for the generous support she has received for two years from the DAAD (Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst).
She plays an Italian cello Onorato Gragnani built in 1783 on loan from the Sinfonima Fondation in Mannheim.
