Lorraine Campet & Nathanaël Gouin
Biography Lorraine Campet & Nathanaël Gouin
Lorraine Campet
began her double bass studies with Jean-Edmond Bacquet before continuing her education at the Paris Conservatoire under Thierry Barbé. She completed a master’s degree at the University of Mannheim with Petru Iuga. Since 2015, she has served as the associate principal bassist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and has presented masterclasses at music schools around the world.
An artist with an atypical career path, Lorraine Campet is recognized as one of the most talented double bassists of her generation. A passionate musician with a desire to embrace her profession in its entirety, she thrives just as much in chamber music as she does at the heart of an orchestra, or in passing on her passion for the violin and the double bass.
Lorraine studied double bass and violin from an early age, and went on to study with Suzanne Gessner at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSM) in Paris, where she obtained her master's degree in double bass in 2016 in the class of Thierry Barbé and Jean-Edmond Bacquet, and her violin degree in 2019 in the class of Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian.
In her desire to explore a different aesthetic, she also spent a year perfecting her skills with double bassist Petru Iuga at the University of Mannheim in Germany.
A sought-after chamber musician, she has performed alongside artists such as Barbara Hannigan, Renaud Capuçon, the Trio Wanderer, Nathanaël Gouin, Leonidas Kavakos, Alexandre Kantorow, the Quatuor Modigliani, François Salque and Astrig Siranossian.
She is a member of the Smoking Joséphine string quintet alongside Geneviève Laurenceau, Olivia Hughes, Marie Chilemme and Hermine Horiot.
As a violinist she was also a member of the Confluence Quartet, with whom she won the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2019.
Totally in love with the orchestra, she won her first position as co-soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the age of 17, where she remained for 7 years.
She is now Super Soloist at the Paris Opera and is regularly invited to play with the orchestras MusicAeterna and Utopia conducted by Teodor Currentzis, as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. She has performed under the baton of Teodor Currentzis, Daniel Harding, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniele Gatti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Lahav Shani, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano...
Driven by a desire to pass on her knowledge, she teaches at the IESM (Pôle Supérieur) in Aix-en-Provence and is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world (USA, Germany, UK, Venezuela, Italy, Spain, China, Sweden, Norway, etc.).
Lorraine has won several double bass competitions, including 1st Prize in the Leopold Bellan International Competition, 1st Prize in the Bass 2014 International Competition in Amsterdam, 1st Prize in the FMAJI 2017 International Competition and 2nd Prize in the Giovanni Bottesini International Competition in Crema in 2017, which has led her to perform as a soloist in France and abroad, giving recitals and concerts as a soloist with orchestra.
She plays an exceptional double bass by Paulo-Antonio and Pietro-Antonio Testore on loan from Xavier and Joséphine Moreno and a violin by Auguste S.P. Bernardel (father) on loan from Emmanuel Jaeger.
Lorraine has been sponsored by the Pirastro string brand since 2019.
In 2025, she was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards in the Instrumental Soloist Revelation category.
Nathanaël Gouin
is among the most estimated pianists of his generation. He is a sought-after soloist, chamber musician and composer. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the United-States of America through numerous concerts. He was invited to give concerts during festivals around the world. He frequently performs with orchestra and in piano recital.
Born in France in 1988, Nathanaël has been passionate about the eclecticism of music since he was 4 years old. Trained at the Conservatoire National supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, at the Juilliard School in New York as well as at the Hochschule für music in Freiburg (Germany), Nathanaël is currently artist in residence at the Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo (Belgium) where he is being guided by Maria Joao Pires. Ms Pires present him to the public in the context of the Partitura project, in Japan, Spain, Germany and others country through a concept that assembles various generations of musicians to share the stage.
As well, Nathanël has created with Guillaume Chilemme a piano-violin duo, and together they released an acclaimed CD of sonatas by Ravel and Canal in 2014. Nathanaël is the recipient of several prizes from various international competitions, such as the Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria (1st prize), the Swedish International Duo Competition (1st prize), and the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon (France). As well, Nathanael is a recipient of the Fondation d’entreprise Banque populaire and of the Fondation Meyer.
