Guillaume Sutre

French violinist Guillaume Sutre was born in 1969 in Cambrai. He began studying at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris aged 14 under Gérard Poulet and Jean-Claude Pennetier before further training at Indiana University and Cologne. In 1987, he founded Trio Wanderer and later became first violin of the Quatuor Ysaÿe until its 2014 finale. He won the A. Curci International Violin Competition and the ARD International Piano Trio Competition in 1988. Sutre has collaborated with artists like Nelson Freire and Yo-Yo Ma, and was appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1999.