Cellist Camille Thomas Signs With Keynote Artist Management

Thomas will join the roster of the Keynote Artist agency for general management

The Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas has signed with the UK’s Keynote Artist Management and will be represented by its director Eleanor Ripman. Thomas joins Keynote’s roster of musicians including Hayoung Choi, Olga Pashchenko, and VC Artist Timothy Chooi. 

Thomas began playing cello at the age of four and studied with Marcel Bardon. A graduate of Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik and the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, her mentors included Stephan Forck, Frans Helmerson, and Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt.

In 2017, Thomas signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, on which her second album, “Voice of Hope,” featured Fazil Say’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Never Give Up — written especially for Thomas. 

Never Give Up was composed in response to the terrorist attacks on Paris and Istanbul; Thomas performed the world premiere of the concerto in Paris in 2018. Additionally, “Voice of Hope” is the first classical album recorded in partnership with UNICEF.

Thomas has worked with orchestras including the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatsorchester Hamburg, Lucerne Festival Strings, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, and Brussels Philharmonic, alongside conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Mikko Franck, Marc Soustrot, Darrell Ang, Kent Nagano, and Stéphane Denève.

Thomas plays the famed 1730 “Feuermann” Stradivarius cello — generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. She is a Larsen Strings Artist and plays on their Il Cannone cello strings. 

“I strongly believe that music has the power to enlarge the heart, to make you feel everything with more intensity,” said Thomas in her artist profile. “Music gives hope for the beauty and greatness of the human soul.”