Biography

French-born violinist Olivier Fluchaire won his first international competition at the age of 11. Two years later, upon receiving his Premier Prix from the Grenoble Conservatory, he entered London’s prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School. At the Menuhin School, he had the privilege of studying with Lord Menuhin himself and in 1991, performed J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with Maestro Menuhin at the Montpellier Opera House, France.  By the time he arrived in America in 1992, he had already concertized in Austria, England, France, Belgium, Lithuania and Russia.

Mr. Fluchaire gave his New York recital debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2001 as winner of the Artists International Competition. Following engagements with the French Philharmonia Orchestra, Bachanalia Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Hunter Symphony, Orchestra of the Bronx and the Camerata Lisy, he has recorded for the Vox and Keuka Labels, as well as Radio France, MDR Leipzig, “The Listening Room with Robert Sherman,” WQXR-FM, National Public Radio and the BBC Television, Bronxnet Television, National Educational Television and France 3 Television.
 

Olivier Fluchaire has performed chamber music concerts alongside members of the Guarneri, American, and Emerson string quartets, as well as Martin Canin, Nina Beilina, Mark Peskanov and Anthony McGill and is a founding member of the New York String Quartet. An ardent champion of new music, he has premiered works by standing composers such as Toshi Ichiyanagi, Samuel Adler, Nils Vigeland, David Keberle, Mathew Harris, Gerald Chenoweth, Lethat Klein and Elias Tanenbaum.

During the 2010 season, Olivier Fluchaire is scheduled to tour Alaska performing Mendelssohn violin concerto Op. 64. He will also perform Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estaciones Portenas with the University of Alaska-Anchorage Sinfonia Orchestra and chamber music alongside clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein as well as pianists Piotr Paleczny and Gary Hammond and cellist Astred Schween. He will be featured at concerts hosted by the Kosciuszko Foundation, Bargemusic, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Hunter College/CUNY, University of Fairbanks/Alaska, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Music in Midtown.

Olivier Fluchaire studied with Daniel Phillips, Patinka Kopec, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Guen En Shen and Jacques Ghesthem. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees on a merit scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music and is currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, as a recipient of a New York Times Fellowship. Olivier Fluchaire serves on the violin and chamber music faculty at Hunter College and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.