Lorraine Campet, virtuoso double bassist and new supersoloist of the Paris Opera

This could be one of the events of the next Victoires de la Musique Classique, which revealed this Wednesday, January 8, the list of nominees in its different categories. For several years, the competition, whose ceremony broadcast live at the beginning of March on France Télévisions and France Musique constitutes one of the most important forums for classical in the audiovisual landscape, has taken pleasure in highlighting instruments which escape the holy piano-violin-cello trinity and sometimes nest in the darkest corners of the orchestra pit. After the tuba in 2012 (with Thomas Leleu), percussion in 2021 (with Aurélien Gignoux), has the time for the double bass finally arrived?

In any case, this is what the nomination, for the category of instrumental revelations, of Lorraine Campet suggests. Her charismatic personality, her deliciously singing playing and her ability to bring her instrument out of the orchestra make her one of…