Timothée Botbol

Swiss cellist Timothée Botbol is a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and a Park Lane Group Young Artist. He has given solo performances in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy, in venues including St John’s Smith Square, Royal Albert Hall, Kings Place, St James’s Piccadilly, Chapel Royal, Lausanne Steinway Hall and Kultur-Rockt Festival. He has appeared as guest principal cellist with the Welsh National Opera orchestra, principal cellist of ensemble Collegium under direction of soloist Lawrence Power, as well as chamber musician in the 2017 Concerts in The West series, the Royal Overseas League and St Martin-in-the-Fields. In February 2017, he was awarded the Grand Prize Special from all categories at the II Augustin Aponte International Music Competition in Tenerife.

A keen orchestral musician, Timothée has performed with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and the European Philharmonic of Switzerland in venues including Geneva’s Victoria Hall, Lausanne’s Salle Metropole and Palais Beaulieu, Montreux’s Auditorium Stravinsky, the Opéra de Vichy under conductors including Charles Dutoit, Markus Stenz, Carlo Rizzi and Christian Zacharias, and with soloists including Martha Argerich and Leonidas Kavakos. In addition to cello, Timothée has performed regularly as a baritone soloist, singing at Geneva’s Victoria Hall accompanied by the Geneva Chamber Orchestra.

Timothée is supported by the Fondation F & M-F Minkoff.