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, Murray Perahia, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Viktoria Postnikova, Guennadi Rojdestvenski, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zoltán Kocsis, Friedrich Gulda, Paul TVenueelier, Julius Katchen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, David Oïstrakh, Julia Varady, 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. Leading productions include: David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? (1998), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: La voix de l'âme (1995), Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century (1996). Richter: The Enigma (1998), Julia Varady, Song of Passion (1998), The Art of the Violin (2000), Piotr Anderszewski plays the Diabelli Variations (2000), Francesco Libetta at La Roque d’Anthéron (2002), Guennadi Rojdestvenski – Profession: chef d’orchestre (2003), Grigory Sokolov Live in Paris (2003), Notes Interdites – Scènes de la vie musicale en Russie Soviétique (2004) e Valery Sokolov – Natural born Fiddler (2004).

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