Skip to main content

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

  • What's on
  • Your Visit
  • About Us
  • Take part
  • Support us
  • My Account
  • Search

Site Menu.

Main Site Sections.

  • What's on
  • Your Visit
  • About Us
  • Take part
  • Support us
  • Digital Programmes

More Site Pages.

  • My Account
Return to main

Loading...

Cellos

Arthur Boutillier

Principal Cello No.3
Photograph of Arthur Boutillier holding his cello in front of a wall decorated with graffiti

Arthur discovered music whilst learning the cello with Erwan Faure in his hometown of Paris. He was taught by renowned teachers such as Phillipe Muller, Marc Coppey and Francois Salque before moving to London to study with Helene Dautry at the Royal College of Music. Alongside his studies, Arthur performed as a member of Southbank Sinfonia. He gained a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he completed a Masters in Performance with Louise Hopkins and gained a place on the London Symphony Orchestra String Scheme.

Since 2014, Arthur has been a visiting teacher at the Oxford Cello School. He has participated in several masterclasses, as a soloist and chamber musician, working with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Gauthier Capuçon, Pieter Wispelwey, Gary Hoffman, the Florestan Trio, the Wanderer Trio and Emile Naoumoff. As a soloist he performed Dvorak's Cello Concerto with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra as part of the LSO Donatella Flick conducting competition.

Arthur is a keen chamber musician and has performed Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time at London’s Cadogan Hall as part of the RCM rising stars series. He has also performed at the Barbican Hall with John Adams for the pre-LSO series, the City of London festival, the BBCSSO chamber series and regularly appeared at the RSNO chamber music season.
Arthur was a member of the Camerata de Lausanne led by Pierre Amoyal and is a member of the Camerata Alma Viva since 2013 including a collaboration with Gandini juggling company and the Royal Opera House.

Since 2015, Arthur has held the position of sub-principal cello with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also appeared as guest principal cello with the London Cello Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony. Arthur recently joined the CBSO as Principal Cello No.3, taking up his role at the start of the orchestra’s 2021-22 season. 

Image gallery

Photograph of Arthur Boutillier playing the cello and laughing at Hockley Social Club
© 2022 Credit : Hannah Fathers
Photograph of Arthur Boutillier playing the cello at Hockley Social Club
© 2022 Credit : Andrew Fox

Live in concert

  • Eduardo Vassallo smiling at CBSO concert holding cello

    Centre Stage: From Wagner to Piazzolla

  • Centre Stage: From France to America

  • Centre Stage: American Quartet

  • Centre Stage: Brahms' Aspiration in Chamber Music

Photograph of cellist Arthur Boutillier. Arthur is leaning against a graffitied wall holding his cello.

Supported by Dr Allan Hough

Meet more of our players

  • Headshot of cellist Eduardo Vassallo

    Eduardo Vassallo

    Section Leader Cello
  • Headshot of cellist David Powell

    David Powell

    Sub-principal Cello
  • Headshot of cellist Kate Setterfield

    Kate Setterfield

    Sub-principal Cello 
  • Headshot of cellist Miguel Fernandes

    Miguel Fernandes

    Sub-principal Cello

Further content for Arthur Boutillier

Keep exploring... Meet the whole Orchestra

Photograph of Kazuki Yamada conducting the orchestra at Symphony Hall

Contact Details

(0121) 616 6500 information@cbso.co.uk

More Site Pages

  • News & Stories
  • Jobs
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Hire

Legal Pages

  • Terms & conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Site Map
  • Safeguarding Policy
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X
  • TikTok
  • YouTube

Principal Funders

Supported using public funding by Arts Council EnglandSCC

Small Print

©2025. The CBSO is a registered charity in England (No. 506276).

Address: CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF

Website by Supercool.