After winning the Tokyo Competition at the age of twelve and gaining a nomination as ‘Solo Instrumental Discovery’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique when aged fifteen, Raphaël Sévère went on to win the prestigious Young Concerts Artists International Auditions in New York in November 2013, where he was awarded First Prize and eight special prizes. Raphaël Sévère has performed as a soloist with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Saint-Denis Festival, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, and the orchestres nationaux of the Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg and Île-de-France. His chamber music partners include the Ébène, Modigliani, Pražák and Van Kuijk quartets, the Wanderer, Les Esprits and Messiaen trios, and Martha Argerich, Boris Berezovsky, Adam Laloum, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Gidon Kremer, David Grimal, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Gary Hoffman, Xavier Philips, Victor Julien-Laferrière and François Salque. His recordings have received distinctions from Diapason (5 Diapasons, Diapason d’Or of the year), Classica Répertoire (Découverte), Télérama (Événement FFFF) and the website Classique Info Disque (Révélation).