alexis bove - cellist
Bio
Alexis Bove, born in Paris in 1987, started to play the cello at the age of 4 with Marie-Claude Douvrain. At 13 he entered the Regional Conservatoire of Saint-Maur in the class of Pascal Jaupart, and Christophe Oudin where He got first prize in excellence degree in cello, in chamber music, and sight reading with Jean-François Ballèvre and Thierry Brodart. During these early stages of His musical life, He joined in 2005 the “Ensemble Naïri”, a string orchestra, conducted by Haïk Davtian, performing Armenian and Georgian folk music as well as the traditional classical repertoire for Chamber orchestra.
In 2010 he attended the class of Michel Strauss and Jan-Ype Nota at the Royal conservatoire of The Hague, in The Netherlands, where he got his Bachelor degree in 2014 and his Master degree in 2016.
Besides of his studies, Alexis took part in many master classes with such musicians as Reinbert de Leeuw, Marc Coppey (académie de Nice), Henri Demarquette and Peter Croppers (académie Maurice Ravel), Amy Flamers and Michel Michalakakos (Biarritz academy), Philippe Graffin, Harro Ruijsenaars, Jean-Bernard Pommier, and Marie-Paul Milone.
Alexis is a very active in chamber music, He is a member of Ensemble Mir based in The Netherlands, and the Rotterdam Chamber Music Society “R.C.M.S”.
As a chamber musician, Alexis partners include Juliette Hurel, Patrick Ayrton, Hed Yaron Mayersohn, Cecilia Ziano, Roman Spitzer, Ying Lai Green, Julien Hervé, Ensemble Hélios, Joséphine Olech, Quirine Scheffers...
After a successful audition in 2020, Alexis is regularly playing with the “Metropole Orkest” based in Netherlands, performing in some of the most prestigious halls in the world with soloists as Ibrahim Maalouf, Gregory Porter, Christian Scott, Robbie Williams and Louis Cole...Alexis also played with orchestras such as “Orchestre National de Lille”, “opéra national de Lyon”, “Asko Schoenberg ensemble”.
Recently based in Athens, Alexis joined the ensemble “Novarte” in 2021 performing at the Malta’s spring festival and at the Horto festival in Pelion.
Since 2022, Alexis also is a member of the French ensemble “ Miroirs étendus” conducted by Fiona Monbet.