Gesine Queyras was born in Freiburg and graduated with honours from the Freiburg University of Music.

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She continued her studies in New York and Paris. In New York she received the Artist Diploma and in Paris the 1st prize of the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris for baroque cello.

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She has since been engaged as a solo cellist under conductors such as William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christophe Rousset, Ton Koopman Philippe Herreweghe and many others, and has been a permanent member of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Phillipe Herreweghe since 1997. 

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In 2004 she founded the Salagon String Quartet, with which she was invited to the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Mettlach Chamber Music Festival, the Concertgebouw Bruges, the Donaueschingen Music Festival, the Festival de Saintes (Fr), Salon en Provence (Fr), the Tonspuren Festival Kloster Irsee, the St. Gallen Music Festival, le Crete Senesi (I) and many more. 

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With the Salagon Quartet, she records Ernest Chausson's sextet together with Isabel Faust and Alexander Melnikov for the Harmonia Mundi label, Schubert and Haydn quartets for the Etcétera label and a recording of the wonderful quartets by the rarely performed Joseph Martin Kraus for Carus Verlag. 

In collaboration with the singer Dorothee Mields, she recorded the beautiful original version of Bocherini's Stabat Mater for string quintet and soprano.

 

She also founded the piano trio "Trio Maurice" with violinist Lisa Immer and pianist Aymara Cubas and the Goldberg String Trio with Lisa Immer and violist Sebastian Wohlfarth, with whom she recorded the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach for the Etcétera label in 2023. 

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Gesine Queyras has been active for many years as artistic director of the chamber music festival "Rencontres musicales de Haute-Provence", a festival in which internationally renowned musicians meet every year at the end of July for a week of music-making in the beautiful town of Forcalquier in Provence. 

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