Jean-Guihen Queyras studied Cello in Lyon, Freiburg and at the Juilliard School in New York. He was solo cellist of Ensemble InterContemporain Paris with whom he recorded György Ligeti's cello concerto for Deutsche Grammophon. As a sought-after chamber musician and soloist, he has played in such prestigious concert halls as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Suntory Hall Tokyo and Carnegie Hall New York. Jean-Guihen Queyras has appeared with such major orchestras as Orchestra della RAI Torino, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre de Paris. His chamber music partners include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lars Vogt, Emmanuel Pahud and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. In November 2002, Jean-Guihen Queyras was awarded the City of Toronto-Glenn Gould International Protegé Prize in Music and Communication by Pierre Boulez and the Glenn Gould Foundation Toronto, Canada. Since 2001, Jean-Guihen Queyras has been professor at the Musikhochschule Trossingen.