About Celine Flamen
Born into a family of doctors and musicians, Celine Flamen began learning the cello at the age of 6 and the piano at 8.
After studying at the conservatories of Poitiers and Boulogne Billancourt, she graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 1997 with first prizes in cello and chamber music in Michel Strauss, Alain Planès and Christian Ivaldi’s classes.
She also did follow the Master Classes of Janos Starker, Gary Hoffman and Kristoff Henkel.
The birth of her first child in 1997 led her to work very quickly in the major orchestral ensembles in France. She gained a lot of experience in the orchestra profession with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre d’Auvergne and many others. She became co-soloist of the OcNouvelle Aquitaine and of the Concerts Pasdeloup orchestra, and then joined the ranks of the Orchestre National d’Ile de France in 2006.
Research
Her meeting with the violinist Gordan Nikolitch will be a decisive turning point in her musical orientation. Development and research of playing on gut strings, exploration of the body’s relationship to the instrument, learning Pilates, will lead her to become a certified Pilates Mat Instructor in 2021 with teacher Ann Van Huffel, herself certified instructor from Romana’s Pilates School in New York. Céline is currently creating the “Cello Fysio” platform, the result of this exploration of the body’s relationship with the instrument inspired by Pilates method and adapted for the musician’s needs.
Since 2010, she has performed in Europe in many different chamber music festivals such as “Zutphen Cello Fest” in Holland, “Aurora” and Sweden, “Bunt” in Serbia, “Festivo” in Germany, Stradun Classic in Croatia and “Salon”, Festival International de Thèze in France…She took the initiative to create “De Bewoners”, a chamber music collective based in Belgium during the period of isolation.
As a soloist, she has played with the Simfonica dell Valles Orchestra, the Young Orchestra of Catalonia, the Festivo Orchestra and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.
She teaches Pilates and Cello in her own studio. She is regularly invited as a cello or chamber music teacher by the Aurora Chamber festival, Sweden, Young Orchestra of Catalonia, Young Orchestra of the Canary Islands, Young Orchestra of Spain, IMCSardinia, Musica reservata and Talents Summer Academy in Brescia Italy.
Celine had the joy to share the stage with, among others, Eric Le Sage, Maria Meerovitch, André Cazalet, Andrew Marriner, Roman and Milena Simovic, Jean François Heisser, Marija Pavlovic, Julien Hervé, Roman Spitzer, Johannes Erkes, Julia Gallego, David Quiggle, Stephane Garin…
She is member of Ensemble 0 and Orquestra Bandart.
She has recorded for the Nomad Music label with Julien Hervé and Sub Rosa with Ensemble 0.
She plays a 1780 cello by Georg Thir set up with Pirastro Gold and Oliv Wounded Gut Strings.