Gautier Olive

Percussion

Gautier Olive was born in Toulouse in the South of France in 2001 and received his first percussion lessons at the age of six. He developed a keen interest in chamber music and chamber orchestra projects early on in his musical training and regularly performed with various ensembles. In 2017, he won 1st Prize at the French National Brass Band Championship with the Brass Band du Conservatoire. After graduating, he was admitted to the Bachelor programme in Johannes Fischer’s class at the University of Music Lübeck in 2021.

In the intervening years, Gautier Olive has specialized in instruments from the orchestral percussion repertoire, participating in projects with a number of youth orchestras, including the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Junge Philharmonische Orchester Niedersachsen, as well as taking numerous masterclasses with renowned percussionists such as Wieland Welzel, Tom Greenleaves, Domenico Melchiorre and Jean-Baptiste Leclère. In 2022, he took part both as a soloist and with a chamber music ensemble in the 13th Malaysian Composers Concert Series in Kuala Lumpur. During the 2024/25 season, Gautier Olive was an academist with the Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck (Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck), with whom he regularly performs, as well as with the Theater Kiel, the Mecklenburg State Theatre and the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra.