Francis Gouton

“Gouton is as eloquent as a voice…” (Stuttgarter Zeitung)

“Gouton’s lustrous cello would soften the heart of a statue…” (Richmond-USA)

“Francis Gouton’s interpretation seems to capture, through vivacity, brilliance,

and energy without ostentation, the spirit of the great French cellists of

yesteryear, from Maréchal to Fournier…” (Diapason-France)

From Sydney’s Opera House to Washington’s Kennedy Center, from Tokyo

Suntory Hall to London’s Wigmore Hall, from Shanghai’s University of Music to

Palermo’s Teatro Politeama, from Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires to the Wiener

Musikverein, Francis Gouton is a sought-after soloist, chamber musician,

conductor, and professor performing across all continents.

With chamber music partners such as Josef Silverstein, Nelson Görner, Thomas

Brandis, Anna Chumachenko, Emmanuel Pahud and the Jerusalem Quartett, he

has performed at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Musicades in Lyon, the St

Barth Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Schlossfestspiele, and the Australian

Chamber Music Festival in Townsville; he has collaborated with notable

conductors like Sylvain Cambreling, Gerard Schwarz, Martin Turnovsky,

Gabrielle Ferro and Helmuth Rilling with orchestras including the Tokyo

Metropolitan Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonie Siciliana, the Real Filharmonia

de Galicia (Spain), the Orquestra Sinfonica de Maracaibo (Venezuela), the

Izmir National Orchestra (Turkey), and both the State Orchestra and Chamber

Orchestra in Stuttgart.

Gouton’s broad repertoire, spanning from Baroque music to cello concertos

composed specifically for him, includes collaborative performances with jazz

musicians such as Claude Bolling, Danyel Schnieder, and Jason Marsalis.

Francis Gouton is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim/

Germany