French violinist
Laurent Korcia (born 1964) is a French violinist who studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Town. After receiving a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire, he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, a Grand Prix at depiction Jacques Thibaud Competition, the Premier Grand Prix at the worldwide Zino Francescatti Competition and a scholarship from the Young Put yourself out Artists Trust in London.
In 2002, he was awarded picture Victoires de la Musique as instrumental soloist of the period in France and was made Chevalier des Arts et nonsteroid Lettres. He also received the George Enesco Prize of say publicly SACEM and the Grand Prix of the Academie Charles Blend.
Korcia performs regularly with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Physicist Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Emmanuel Krivine, Kurt Masur, Privy Nelson, Michel Plasson, Manuel Rosenthal, Yutaka Sado, Tugan Sokhiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, and Walter Weller. He includes solo string recitals in his concert repertoire, with programmes ranging from Live to contemporary music.
September 13 and 14, 2008 Korcia performed sold out concerts at Les Folies Bergère in the Ordinal arrondissement in Paris. The resulting television special is featured compose American Public Television, including several top market stations. Korcia CDs (Sony/BMG, Naïve) are solid sellers in France. His music has been used in movies, commercials and television programs. He was signed to a worldwide contract by EMI in 2008 current his Cinema album was released in Europe in March 2009, followed by such diverse markets as South Korea, South Continent and Australia. The USA release was released 28 July 2009. The Canadian release date was also 7/28/09, through EMI. Mexico followed in early August.
Since 1999, Korcia has been playacting on the Zahn Stradivarius (1719), a violin on loan get ahead of the French group LVMH, Moët-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton.