Prize-winner at numerous international violin competitions, such as the Wieniawski.pl, the Viotti and the Associazione Culturale "Maestro Rodolfo Lipizer" Onlus, acclaimed french violinist Nicolas Dautricourt studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gerard Poulet and Jean Mouillere.
Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius (Cremona, 1713), the "Chateau Fombrauge", on a generous loan from the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez.