Dorian Lamotte

Background

About Dorian Lamotte

Contact, lamotte.dorian@yahoo.fr Dorian Lamotte began learning the violin at age 4. After being formally rewarded with a Diploma of Musical Studies summa cum laude and a year of postgraduate study at the Conservatoire National de Boulogne-Billancourt, he attended the master classes of legendary violinists Olivier Charlier, Jacques Ghestem, and especially Ivry Gitlis. An eclectic musician, he studied viola and conducting, and created in 2004 in Paris the Festival Envolées Musicales. Always enthusiastic about new music he has created many opuses as conductor and as soloist, including Dimitri Tchesnokov’s Partita, Bernard de Vienne's Figures Absentes, or Maxence Grimbert-Barré’s Double Concerto, dedicated to him. In 2017, he released a recording with the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile featuring soloist contemporary Latinoamerican works. In 2008, he joined the internationally renowned Quatuor Debussy, in which he performed in prestigious venues around the world (Wigmore Hall in London, Library of Congress in Washington DC, Moscow Conservatory, Chaillot Theatre in Paris.). In company with this prestigious ensemble he meets new audiences and develops his passion for teaching at academies and master classes (Seattle Cornish College, Houston Moores School of Music.), and he releases two records respectively for Universal and Timpani. In 2011, he became a professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon (CRR), as well as a guest teacher at the CeFeDem de Lyon, and recorded the soundtrack of a hip-hop dance show, “Yo Gee Ti”, which was a success for its premiere in Taiwan. In 2013, he released the first edition of the score of Lalo's piano quintet and its first world recording. To read the review by the Strad Magazine, follow this link After teaching at the Universidad Mayor, Dorian Lamotte now teaches the violin and chamber music at the Universidad de Talca. He plays a 1774 violin by Master luthier Paolo Castello, and strings Corelli offered by his sponsor, the company Savarez.