Marc Coppey attracted the attention of the musical world at the age of 18 by winning the two highest awards at the Leipzig Bach Competition - the first prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of Bach - when he was noticed by Yehudi Menuhin. He then made his debut in Moscow and Paris in the Tchaikovsky Trio with Yehudi Menuhin and Victoria Postnikova, at a concert filmed by Bruno Monsaingeon. Rostropovich invited him to the Evian Festival and from then on, his international career as a soloist developed with the greatest orchestras under the direction of Eliahu Inbal, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Emmanuel Krivine, Alan Gilbert, Christian Arming, Lionel Bringuier, Alain Altinoglu, Michel Plasson, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Theodor Guschlbauer, John Nelson, Raymond Leppard, Erich Bergel, Philippe Entremont, Pascal Rophé, Philippe Bender, Paul McCreesh, Yutaka Sado, Kirill Karabits, and Asher Fisch. His career, marked by great eclecticism, distinguishes him. Passionate about chamber music, he explores the repertoire with Maria-João Pires, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicholas Angelich, Michel Beroff, Kun-Woo Paik, Michel Dalberto, Peter Laul, François-Frédéric Guy, Nelson Goerner, Augustin Dumay, Vadim Gluzman, Victoria Mullova, Liana Gourdjia, Valeriy Sokolov, Ilya Gringolts, Alina Pogostkina, Tedi Papavrami, Lawrence Power, Maxim Rysanov, Gérard Caussé, Janos Starker, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Michel Portal, Romain Guyot, Emmanuel Pahud, and the Tokyo, Takács, Pražák, Modigliani, Ébène, and Talich Quartets. He was also the cellist of the Ysaÿe Quartet for five years. He performs on the major stages of London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, New York, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo. He is frequently invited to the Radio-France and Montpellier, Strasbourg, Besançon, La Roque d'Anthéron, Aix-en-Provence, Stuttgart, Musica, Midem, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Kuhmo, Korsholm, West Cork, Kaposvár, Campos do Jordão, Prades festivals, and "La Folle Journée" in Nantes and Lisbon. Marc Coppey's repertoire illustrates his great curiosity: while he frequently performs the complete Bach Suites and the great concerto repertoire, he also introduces many rarer works. He has given premiere performances of pieces by Auerbach, Bertrand, Christian, Durieux, Fedele, Fénelon, Hurel, Jarrell, Krawczyk, Lenot (concerto), Leroux, Mantovani, Monnet (concerto), Pauset, Pécou, Reverdy, Tanguy (1st concerto), and Verrières, and gave the French premiere of concertos by Carter, Mantovani, and Tüür. In November 2009, Marc Coppey was chosen to play Bach in Paris at Place de la Concorde for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2015, he took on an extraordinary challenge for Arte Studio: performing the complete 6 Suites for solo cello by Bach, 2 hours 30 minutes of music, in a single evening in Lyon. In March 2015, Marc Coppey gave the premiere at the Philharmonie de Paris of about ten works for solo cello by today's greatest composers in tribute to Pierre Boulez on his 90th birthday. This program was recorded and released in January 2017 on the Megadisc label. Marc Coppey has recorded works by Beethoven, Debussy, Emmanuel, Fauré, Grieg, and Strauss for the Auvidis, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, and K617 labels. He has recorded the complete Bach Suites (ffff from Télérama), an album dedicated to Dohnányi (10 from Répertoire), an album dedicated to the great Russian sonatas with Peter Laul for the Aeon label, as well as the Schubert Quintet with the Pražák Quartet for the Praga label and the Martin Matalon concerto (Accord/Universal). More recently, an album dedicated to the concertante works of Dutilleux and Caplet was released, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège under Pascal Rophé (Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Clef Resmusica, BBC Music Magazine*****), followed by an album dedicated to the Brahms sonatas with Peter Laul (Aeon), then to Schubert (Arpeggione), and the first recording of Dubois' concertante works (Mirare). In 2016, his recording of the Haydn concertos and a C.P.E. Bach concerto with the Zagreb Soloists was released on the Audite label. For the same label, he recorded the Dvořák concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Kirill Karabits, received with great enthusiasm by international critics, then a complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas recorded in concert at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic with pianist Peter Laul, to be released in spring 2018. Marc Coppey combines his career as a soloist with a commitment to teaching: he is a professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur and gives masterclasses worldwide. He is the artistic director of the "les Musicales" festival in Colmar and has been the music director of the Zagreb Soloists orchestra since 2011. He was named Officer of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in 2014. Born in Strasbourg, Marc Coppey studied at the Conservatory of his hometown, at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur, and at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). He plays a Matteo Goffriller cello (Venice 1711).