Reine Flachot
Reine Flachot was a French female cellist.Biography
Reine Flachot arrived in France at the age of twelve when her French parents returned home. There, she began her studies with Jean Dumont and then, in 1935, entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Gérard Hekking. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she was awarded several prizes and entered the concerts Colonne for which she performed the Cello Concerto by Édouard Lalo.
There followed a career that made her the ambassador of the "French school of cello for sixty years" all over the world, with a strong activity between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s, a period from which she devoted much time to the transmission of her knowledge. During these years, she served in particular the works of Darius Milhaud, Charles Brown, Pierre-Max Dubois, Francis Miroglio, Émile Mawet, Aram Khachaturian, André Jolivet, Henri Sauguet. She ceased all teaching activities in 1995. That same year, she gave her last concerts in Japan, preferring to withdraw. "I prefer," she said, "to leave a beautiful picture of me and I'm tired."
She was then 73 years old and ended a career having led her to choose with restraint her discographic production.
During her career, Reine Flachot was distinguished by the Piatigorski Prize and the international Orense Prize.
Reine Flachot died aged 76.
