Bruno Monsaingeon is a Paris-based concert violinist who, while still active in the field of performance has, in the last thirty years, devoted a large part of this time to the making of musical films.

He has directed films on and about some of the major musicians of our time, Nadia Boulanger, Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Viktoria Postnikova, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Murray Perahia, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zoltan Kocsis, Friedrich Gulda, Paul Tortelier, Julius Katchen, Marie-Claire Alain, Valery Sokolov, amongst many others.

His long associations with Yehudi Menuhin and Glenn Gould have been remarkable and have led to the production of numerous films on various subjects with these two musicians. Two of these productions in particular, The Open Wall, Menuhin in China and The Goldberg Variations, have gained worldwide acclaim.

In 1990, he began two vast and long term projects on Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and David Oistrakh. His impressive cycle on the former comprises several films of recitals and masterclasses and concludes with a major documentary profile of the maestro, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Autumn Journey, which won the Charles Cros Academy Video Prize and the François Reichenbach Prize, Orphée du Lyrique en Images, 1998.

After several years of research, Bruno Monsaingeon found, restored and edited a vast amount of archive footage on the great Soviet violinist David Oistrakh. In addition to the three programmes of The David Oistrakh Collection, based on rare concert material filmed in the Soviet Union, Monsaingeon recently directed a major profile of the violinist, entitled David Oistrakh, Artist of the People? This also received several awards.

Bruno Monsaingeon simultaneously spent many years putting together his major biographical profile Richter, The Enigma.The film has won numerous awards: FIPA d'Or 1998; Procirep Classique en images Prize - Ve biennale of filmed music, 1998; Documentary Prize - Banff Festival, Canada, 1998; Charles Cros Academy Video Prize, 1998; Best audiovisual musical diffusion Prize - Professional Syndicate for dramatic and musical critics, 1998; Grand Prix Pratt & Whitney Canada - Art Film Festival of Montreal, 1999; Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award, 1999; Diapason d'Or Classical Music DVD, 2001; Cannes Classical Award, Classical Music DVD, 2001.

He subsequently directed Death and the Maiden, with the world famous Alban Berg Quartet, for the celebrations of the bicentenary of Franz Schubert's birth (January 1997), and Julia Varady, Song of Passion, a profile of one of the best loved singers of the opera world.

In 2000, he directed The Art of Violin, a 2-parts series covering a vast panorama of the world's most celebrated 20th century violinists, including Mischa Elman, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, David Oïstrakh and Yehudi Menuhin.

In 2001, he directed a documentary and concert programme with the Artemis Quartet, Strings Attached, which illustrates how a small group of top musicians live and work together. The film focuses on one of the most ambitious and mysterious works in all the string quartet repertory, Beethoven's Grosse Fuge.

He also directed Gennadi Rozhdestvensky- Conductor or Conjuror? (“Grand Prix démarche d’artiste Musique”, FIFAP Unesco 2003), a documentary featuring the Russian conductor talking about the art of conducting, and conducting ‘Dead Souls’ by Alfred Schnittke and ‘Zdravitsa’ by Sergei Prokofiev. In 2004 he completed The Red Baton – Scenes from Musical Life in Stalinist Russia, which won the Pratt & Whitney Grand Prize - Festival International des Films sur l'Art, Montréal and Grand Prix Musique - FIFAP Unesco.

In 2006, he directed Glenn Gould, Hereafter, which won Fipa d’Or, Biarritz 2006 and Choc de l’Année 2006 du Monde de la Musique.

In 2007-2008 Bruno Monsaingeon has several productions in progress: Piotr Anderszewski – Is there a piano on board? and documentaries on Julia Varady’s masterclasses and David Fray.

In 2004, Bruno Monsaingeon made his début as a conductor in Russia, playing in Ekaterinburg a Bach Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducting them in two Concertos by Mozart and Beethoven performed by the young Russian piano star Boris Berezovsky.

Bruno Monsaingeon is also the author of seven books: Mademoiselle (conversations with Nadia Boulanger); Le dernier Puritain, Contrepoint à la ligne and Non, je ne suis pas du tout un excentrique (a series of three books containing the entire literary output of the great Canadian pianist, composer and writer, Glenn Gould); Richter, Ecrits et Conversations; Passion Menuhin, l'Album d'une vie; and, in 2002, Glenn Gould: Journal d’une crise, followed by Correspondance de concert.