Dorran
Alibaud
France
Born in 1989 in south of France, Dorran Alibaud played as principal cellist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Les Siècles, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and has toured around the world with Utopia Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Staatskapelle Dresden, SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
Invited by Claudio Abbado in 2012, Dorran played in his beloved Orchestra Mozart in Europa and also recorded for Deutsche Gramophone amongst others.
Dorran has also collaborated with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Teodor Currentzis, Daniele Gatti, Antonio Pappano.
His love for the orchestra repertoire came when he was, for many years, solo-cellist of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
After studying with Annie Cochet and Philippe Muller in France with first prizes, Dorran joins in 2009 Jean-Guihen Queyras’s class in Stuttgart and follows him in 2011 in Freiburg-im- Breisgau. He finishes his studies working closely with Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin.
Dorran participated in worldwide masterclasses given by Frans Helmerson, Anner Bylsma, Miklós Perényi, Clemens Hagen, Gary Hoffman and Artemis Quartett.
After being principal cellist at the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Dorran is currently program leader at Talent Norge, and the prestigious Norwegian elite conducting program at Dirigentløftet, Dirigentforum. His talents currently hold positions as assistant conductors in orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and building high end masterclasses with Daniel Harding, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo, Leif Ove Andsnes, Eva Ollikainen amongst others.
Dorran plays a anonymous cello from 1700 Venise and is a Florian Leonhard’s Fine violin & arts ambassador.