Raphaël Pidoux

Raphaël Pidoux (born 1967) is a contemporry French classical cellist.

Raphaël Pidoux started studying the cello with his father Roland Pidoux. In 1987 he won the First Prize of the Conservatoire de Paris in Philippe Muller's class. He perfected his skills in the University of Indiana with Janos Starker. As a chamber musician, he studied with Menahem Pressler and members of the Amadeus Quartet at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 1988, he won thee ARD International Music Competition in Munich as well as the third Prize of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig.

He plays on a 1680 cello by Goffredo Cappa.

Raphaël Pidoux was the cellist of the Trio Wanderer with which he led an international career playing in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Wigmore Hall of London, the Herkulessaal () of Munich, the Konzerthaus, Vienna and Konzerthaus Berlin, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Musikverein of Graz, La Scala of Milan.

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