Grégoire Fedorenko
Chorus Member
Born in Brittany, Grégoire Fedorenko received his first musical training in his home region before studying at the conservatories in Nantes and later in Boulogne-Billancourt. During this period, the young cellist was particularly shaped musically through his collaboration with Xavier Gagnepain, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, and Jérôme Pernoo.
From 2001 onwards, he continued his studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Josef Schwab and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg. Grégoire Fedorenko performed, among others, with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Ensemble Orchestra Kanazawa (Japan), and was a permanent member of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra until 2012.
He participated several times in the Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, which gave him the opportunity to perform in a piano trio with Christoph Eschenbach and to play as solo cellist of the orchestra under the direction of conductors such as Kurt Masur and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
During his time as a student in Berlin, he was—together with pianist Mélina Burlaud—a scholarship holder of the foundation “Live Music Now”, founded by Yehudi Menuhin. He also received important artistic impulses from Heinrich Schiff. In 2012, driven by musical curiosity, Grégoire Fedorenko left his position at the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra. He moved to Vienna and was soon accepted as a tenor into the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, which enabled him to participate in numerous projects under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. This experience strengthened his conviction in the boundlessness of music and the mutual positive influence between instrument and voice.
Since 2013, he has been studying voice with Prof. Peter Thunhart and Juliette Mars. He is regularly engaged as a choral soloist in productions at the Theater an der Wien (Arnold Schoenberg Choir), at the Styriarte festival, as well as at the Salzburg and Baden-Baden Festivals (Philharmonia Choir, conducted by Walter Zeh). In addition, the experienced cellist is frequently invited to perform with Ensemble Matheus under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi, as well as with the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper and the Tonkünstler Orchestra.
In September and November 2016, he sang his first solo role in an opera production in his home country under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi. This was followed in 2017 by a solo performance in “The Creation” in Baden-Baden, as well as regular solo performances of Mozart’s “Requiem” in Vienna. Since the summer of 2019, he has been working as a substitute with the Vienna State Opera Concert Association in Salzburg and with the Balthasar Neumann Choir.
Last updated: January 2026