Florianne Remme

Florianne Remme (Zutphen, 2000) started playing the cello at the age of 8. At the age of 14 she was admitted to the Young Talent Department of the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen. Shortly after she continued her studies with Lucia Swarts at the Young Talent School of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is currently studying with Jeroen Reuling at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Florianne received several prizes during competitions and summer courses, including prizes at the Prinses Christina Competition (First Prize Regional Finals, Second Prize National Finals 2016), the Peter de Grote Festival (Gasterra Award 2014) and Festival Verao Classico in Lisbon (Student award 2019). In 2019 she received a scholarship from the Herbert Duintjer Foundation.

Florianne followed masterclasses with Gary Hoffman, Raphael Pidoux, Frans Helmerson, Paul Katz and many others during festivals and summer courses such as the Brussels Cello Festival, Festival Young Talent Schiermonnikoog, Festival Pablo Casals, the Emmy Verhey Festival, Festival Verao Classico and the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam. She regularly gives recitals, both as a soloist and as a member of chamber music groups and played several times for the Dutch National Radio and TV. She performed as a soloist with different orchestras in The Netherlands. Since 2023 she is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Academy in Amsterdam.

Florianne has a great passion for chamber music. She has been involved in many chamber music projects, including a concert tour with the Rubens Consort in 2017. Together with Pieternel Tils and Jorian van Nee she forms the Audax Piano Trio and recently established the Cortenbach Clarinet Trio together with Emile Souvagie and Alexander Declercq.

Since February 1, 2019, Florianne Remme plays on a newly built cello by Thomas Bertrand (https://www.bertrand-violins.eu). It was lent to her by Strings For Talent and the King Baudouin Foundation. Her bow (J.J. Martin, Paris) is on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumentenfonds.

The cello, made by Thomas Bertrand in 2018, was inspired by Antonio Stradivari’s cello «Castelbarco» (1697).

Thomas Bertrand creates violins, violas, and cellos of the highest quality, in the tradition of the 17th and 18th century Italian masters of Cremona and Venice.

He is also a master of sound optimisation.

He is a member of several violin makers’ associations, including ALADFI (France), KLANGGESTALTEN (Germany) and the VSA (United States).

His workshop is located in Brussels.

More on his site: https://www.bertrand-luthier.eu