Born in 1994, Edgar Moreau is a Prizewinner at the 2009 Rostropovich competition and 2011 Tchaikovsky  Competition. He is now one of the most acclaimed cellists of his generation.  

Edgar regularly collaborates with conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Myung-Whun Chung, Marin Alsop,  Manfred Honeck, Lahav Shani, Aziz Shokhakimov, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste,  Michael Sanderling, Nathalie Stutzmann, and performs with world-renowned orchestras, such as New York  Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Los  Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonique de  Radio France, Luzern Sinfonie, Brussels Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan.  

Being particularly passionate about chamber music, he collaborates with artists such as Martha Argerich,  Yo-Yo Ma, Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, and David Kadouch among others.  

An exclusive Erato-Warner artist, his discography includes “Play” with pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique,  “Giovincello”, with Il Pomo d'Oro, a duo recital with David Kadouch, Gulda and Offenbach concertos, a  family album featuring Korngold and Dvorak, Transmission, celebrating Jewish heritage and musical  tradition with Luzern Sinfonie and Michael Sanderling, Dutilleux and Weinberg cello concertos, with Andris  Poga and WDR Köln Sinfonie (Warner Classics, September 2023).  

Latest release : Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, with LuzernSinfonie and Michael Sanderling, along with a  slavic recital with David Kadouch (Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Dvorak).  

Edgar Moreau plays on a David Tecchler cello from 1711. His bow was made by Dominique Peccate.  In September 2023, Edgar has been appointed Cello Professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur.

Michel Beroff was born in France in 1950. After graduating from the Paris conservatoire in 1966, he won the following year the first prize at the first international Olivier Messiaen piano competition. He has since been considered one of the most outstanding interpreters of Messiaen’s music. He then went on to play with the most prestigious orchestras around the world under the direction of such conductors as Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein, Boulez, Dohnanyi, Dorati, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gielen, Inbal, Jochum, Leinsdorf, Masur, Ozawa, Previn, Rostropovitch, Sinopoli, Solti, Tennsted, Tilson-Thomas, Zinman. As a chamber music partner , he has been very active playing with Martha Argerich, Barbara Hendricks, Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay, Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell.

As a conductor, Michel Beroff has been conducting the chamber orchestra de la Scala de Milano, the Russian state Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Cannes chamber orchestra, the Berkeley symphony, the Montréal youth orchestra.

Professor Emeritus at the Paris Conservatoire, where he taught for 25 years, Michel Béroff is giving regular master classes in many countries, including Japan, China, USA, Italy, Germany and France.