Lucas Ounissi

Lucas Ounissi began studying the trombone at the Conservatoire of Tours with Thierry Guilbert and Vincent Bouleau. He won several prizes in national and international competitions as a soloist and chamber musician (trombone trio and quartet). In 2016, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in Jorgen Van Rijen’s and Jean Raffard’s classes.

In his first year, he worked alongside the great trombonist Gilles Millière, before continuing his studies with Fabrice Millischer. With the Orchestra of the Conservatoire, he took part in several tours (Vienna, Manchester, Sao Paulo), before joining the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. In the second year of his master’s degree, Lucas became a member of the Orchestre des Lauréats des Conservatoires, as first trombonist.

He soon developed a taste for contemporary music, performing with the Ensemble intercontemporain in France and abroad (Prague, Helsinki, Porto, Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Los Angeles, Rome, Huddersifield, Tokyo), before joining the soloists of the Ensemble in March 2024.

In 2022, he performed Luciano Berio’s Sequenza V at the Philharmonie de Paris as part of the Ensemble intercontemporain’s season, and premiered four pieces for solo trombone at the American Society Foundation in New York. He also became a member of the Grafenegg Academy, during the Grafenegg Festival in Austria.

In addition to playing this repertoire, Lucas performs with numerous French and foreign orchestras, including the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National d’île de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Verbier Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux… Lucas also performs as a chamber musician with the Dodécabone ensemble and the Qu’interbrass quintet.

Lucas Ounissi also took part in the play Némésis, adapted from Philip Roth’s last novel and directed by Thiphaine Raffier at the Théâtre de l’Odéon in 2023.