Jean-Guihen Queyras's recent 'Arpeggione' recording for Harmonia Mundi with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud, featuring works by Viennese composers as diverse Schubert, Berg and Webern, was 'Editor's Choice' in Gramophone, 'Chamber Music Choice' in the BBC Music Magazine and 'Strad Selection'. The CD has also been awarded the 'E' for 'Excepcional' in the Spanish magazine Scherzo. His previous recordings include Dvoøák 's cello concerto with the Prague Philharmonia under the baton of Jiøí Belohlávek, which was BBC Radio 3 CD of the week in November 2005 and Haydn and Monn's cello concertos on a period instrument together with the Freiburger Barockorchester, a Top CD in the BBC Music Magazine and praised in both The Independent on Sunday and the Saturday Telegraph as the definitive baroque version.

Jean-Guihen's extensive repertoire encompasses more recent works, which he performs internationally: he gave the world premieres of Ivan Fedele's cello concerto (Orchestre National de France, Leonard Slatkin) and Gilbert Amy's concerto (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall, Tokyo) and premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. All these concertos have been recorded by Jean-Guihen, the last three on the same CD for Harmonia Mundi which will be released in 2008.

His particular focus on repertoire for solo cello, which brilliantly demonstrates the exceptional narrative and expressive force of the instrument "senza basso", led him to devise and perform several series of concerts featuring the Suites by J.S Bach alongside contemporary works at the Triphony Hall in Tokyo and the Théâtre du Châtelet. He also commissioned six composers (Kurtag, Harvey, Mochizuki, Amy, Nodaïra & Fedele) to write an 'echo' to each of the six Bach Suites for solo cello, in a project called 'Six Suites, Six Echos', which he has performed in such prestigious venues as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Hamburg's Musikhalle and the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

Jean-Guihen has repeatedly been invited as a resident artist of the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and De Bijloke in Gent, where he performs solo recitals as well as a chamber music concerts; regular chamber music partners include the pianist Alexander Melnikov, the violinist Isabelle Faust, the Arcanto Quartet with Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec, the trio with Andreas Staier and Daniel Sepec, and even Zarb specialists Kevan and Bijan Chemirani.

His solo engagements with orchestras include the Philharmonia, Orchestre de Paris, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, Radio-Sinfoniorchester Saarbrücken, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Münich Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, DeFhilharmonie Antwerpens, Sao Paulo State Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, under the baton of Heinz Holliger, Franz Brüggen, Günther Herbig, Daniel Klajner, Jiri Belohlavek, Pascal Rophé, David Stern, Leonard Slatkin, Olivier Knussen, Bruno Weil, Paul Daniel, André de Ridder, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Muhaï Tang, John Neschling, Yoav Talmi and Andras Ligeti. Jean-Guihen made his debut in the main hall at Carnegie Hall in New York with Concerto Köln in March 2004.

Jean-Guihen was the solo cellist of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, with whom he recorded the Ligeti Cello Concerto for Deutsche Grammophon, conducted by Pierre Boulez (Gramophone Contemporary Music Award). For Harmonia Mundi he also released Britten's suites for solo cello and a collection of Hungarian works by Kodaly, Kurtag and Veress, which was awarded a Diapason d'Or. Jean-Guihen has also recorded Dutilleux's Tout un Monde Lointain for Arte Nova/BMG and Boulez's Messagesquisse for Deutsche Grammophon (Gramophone Contemporary Music Award).

In November 2002, Jean-Guihen Queyras received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould International Protégé Prize in Music, awarded to him by Pierre Boulez and the Glenn Gould Foundation

Jean-Guihen Queyras is Professor at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany and one of the Artistic Directors of the 'Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence' which take place in Forcalquier in July each year.

He plays a cello made by Gioffredo Cappa in 1696, on loan from Mécénat Musical Société Générale since November 2005.