Stéphane Lengrand

Stéphane Lengrand was born in Paris in 1980. He started playing the cello at the age of eight at the Conservatoire of Versailles under the tuition of Florian Lauridon and Michel Tournus, impressed by the French school of Pierre Fournier. He graduated in Solfège, Cello and Chamber Music, performed at Evian's Festival under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich, and then took five years off from music to read Mathematics.

Scholar of the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, he graduated from Oxford University & the École Polytechnique with Masters of Science and from the Sorbonne with a B.A. in English studies. Having completed a Ph.D. in the field of Logic at the universities of Paris & St Andrews, Stephane took up cello studies under Robert Irvine and graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a Postgraduate Diploma.

In the last two years, Stephane performed Shostakovich's and Saint-Saens' cello concerti with St Andrews Symphony Orchestra. Since he entered the RSAMD, he joined with the Scottish Ensemble in their December tour, and remains first and foremost dedicated to chamber music, now mostly with the Cosmopolitan quartet.