Pate, Olivier (clarinet player)

Olivier Pate ( French: Olivier Patey ; born July 3, 1981 , Lille ) - French clarinet player .

From the age of nine, he studied at the Lille Regional Conservatory with Florian Cadore and Claude Focompre, then graduated from the Paris Conservatory (2001) in the class of Michel Arrignon and entered the brass band of the Republican Guard. In 2004 he was awarded the second prize at the ARD International Competition of Performers (the first prize was not awarded), in 2005 he won the Karl Nielsen International Competition .

Since 2005, he has been a member of the Malerovsky Chamber Orchestra ; since 2009, he has been a solo accompanist; As a member of this collective, he also performed as part of the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival . In 2012-2013. the first clarinet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra ; since 2013, the first clarinet of the Concertgebouw Orchestra .

As a soloist on tour in different European countries - in particular, in 2006 he performed in Kiev , having received a sympathetic response from critics ^[1] . How the ensemble recorded sonatas for clarinet and piano by Johannes Brahms and Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch .