Hailed as a “marvelous violinist” (France Musique) with “sensitive tone” (Pizzicato Magazine) and “tremendous ease, suppleness and beauty of sound” (Nice-Matin), French violinist Ambroise Aubrun enjoys a career as a sought after soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and pedagogue. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, in halls such as Salzburg Haus Für Mozart, Yerevan Khachaturian Grand Hall, Los Angeles Broad Stage and Zipper Hall, Chicago Bradley Hall, Paris Hotel des Invalides, and Milan Sala Puccini. His chamber music collaborators include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Scott St. John, Martin Chalifour, Fred Sherry, Carrie Dennis, Rohan de Saram, and members of the Borromeo, Ebène, Ysaÿe, Takács and Tokyo string quartets among others.

His albums for the Editions Hortus and Navona Records have embraced a wide range of repertoire from J.S. Bach to Tanguy (b.1968) and received praise of the highest caliber (5 stars Pizzicato Journal, “coup de coeur” France Musique, and a nomination for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards). Of his J.S. Bach album with harpsichordist Mireille Podeur, Pizzicato Magazine declared “One cannot play these sonatas for obbligato harpsichord and violin more beautifully and authentically. Here two musicians work together who can breathe, who make Bach’s music fly.” Jean-Pierre Robert of On-Mag added: “The vision of Ambroise Aubrun and Mireille Podeur, […] can easily be measured against the greatest versions”.

Aubrun’s performances and albums have been broadcast on CBS, ABC, WFMT Chicago, France Musique, 3MBS Melbourne (Australia), Klara Radio (Belgium), KPFK Los Angeles, KNCJ Nevada, WTUL New-Orleans, and K-USC Los Angeles.

He has served as guest concertmaster of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, and is a regular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violin sections.

As a promoter for music of our time, Aubrun has premiered over 30 works on three continents and is the dedicatee of several pieces. He is on the faculty of the Impulse New Music Festival, where he coaches young composers on writing for the violin and chamber ensembles.

Aubrun graduated at age 19 from the Paris National Superior Conservatory where he studied with Roland Daugareil and Serge Pataud. He then studied at UCLA (D.M.A.) with Guillaume Sutre and at the Colburn Conservatory of Music (Artist Diploma) with Martin Beaver. He is the winner of the Charles Oulmont Prize of the Fondation de France and laureate of the Langart Foundation in Switzerland, the recipient of the UNLV Barrick Scholar Award for outstanding achievement in Creative Activities, and was awarded the CSUN Faculty Achievement Award by UNLV students.

Currently Associate Professor of Violin and String Area Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aubrun previously taught Violin and Chamber Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UC Santa Barbara. He has also served on the faculty of several summer academies and has conducted Master Classes in North America (Québec, California, Oregon, New York, Wisconsin, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico), France, Italy, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.

He is the artistic director of the Henry J. Bruman Chamber Music Festival at UCLA, a concert series dedicated to introducing chamber music to new audiences by offering performances by distinguished instrumentalists free of charge.

Aubrun plays a Matteo Goffriller violin, on a generous loan from the Langart Foundation.

He maintains an ongoing interest in non-classical styles. He has recorded for Mayer Hawthorne and performed with Pink Martini, Marco Antonio Solis, Harout Balyan, Moby, Andrew Bird, and Herbie Hancock in halls such as the Hollywood Bowl, and the Nokia, Dolby, and Greek Theaters.