Prague Proms festival

Lucienne Renaudin Vary

Born in 1999, trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary already managed to conquer the audience not only in her native France and, by extension, all of Europe, but also in the United States and Japan with her technical virtuosity and pure musicianship. Winner in the “Révélation” category of the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2016 and named as one of Classic FM’s 30 Under 30 by Julian Lloyd Webber in 2021, Lucienne was described as a “trumpet sensation”.

A guest of major orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle Zurich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, or Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan, under conductors like Paavo Järvi, Barbara Hannigan, François-Xavier Roth, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lucienne has also performed in such festivals as the Snape Proms, Festival de Pâques in Aix en Provence, Rheingau Musik Festival. Lucienne is equally sought after as a jazz artist and has her own quartet. She opened for Wynton Marsalis at Jazz in Marciac in 2018 and 2022.

Formerly released albums on Warner Classics are The Voice of the Trumpet (2017) recorded with the Orchestre National de Lille and Rolando Villazón, Mademoiselle in New York (2019), with Bill Elliott and the BBC Concert Orchestra, Piazzolla Stories (2021) for the composer’s 100Th anniversary with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and Sascha Goetzel. The last fourth album Trumpet Concertos with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Michael Sanderling featuring some of the most famous trumpet concertos of the repertoire and some surprises is from the year 2022.

Lucienne has been a regular guest of several popular TV programs in Europe such as Rolando Villazón’s Stars von Morgen in Berlin (Arte/ZDF), the Eiffel Tower Bastille Day concert or Le Grand Echiquier for France Télévisions, several of her performances have been filmed by channels such as Arte, ZDF or Medici. 

Lucienne is the recipient of the Swiss foundation Arthur Waser Prize in 2019, becoming the first ever woman to receive this prize rewarding young musician.