Originally from the north of France, he began playing the instrument at the Lille Conservatoire under the guidance of Yolande Leroy. He soon joined the class of Boris Garlitsky and then Jean-Jacques Kantorow at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he was unanimously awarded first prize in 2000, as well as first prize for chamber music in the class of Christian Ivaldi and Ami Flammer.
He followed Jean-Jacques Kantorow at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique in Rotterdam and received advice from artists such as Tibor Varga in Sion, the Ysaÿe Quartet in Paris and the Trio Wanderer in La Roque d’Anthéron.
In 2003, he joined the Orchestre Symphonique de Douai – Région Hauts de France as concertmaster, performing regularly as a soloist and with other orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfònica Nacional de Colombia, the Ensemble de Basse- Normandie, the Valentiana Orchestra, the Ensemble Cordes 21 and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lille.
He performs in France and abroad with musicians such as Alexander Paley, Maurizio Baglini, Olaf John Laneri, Michel Dalberto, Vanessa Benelli-Mosell, Alain Raës, Silvia Chiesa, Jean-Luc Votano, Denis Simándy…
With pianist Alain Raës, he recorded Sonatas by Jacques de la Presle, Paul Paray and Claude Delvincourt in a disc entitled ‘Sonates de la Côte d’Albâtre’ (Azur Classical), which received 4 Diapason awards and a Classica ‘Coup de Coeur’: ‘’This CD gives us the opportunity to discover Gautier Dooghe, a violinist of the highest calibre with a radiant and generous sound‘’. (Jacques Bonnaure). In 2024, he was invited to China for the Crazy French Music Season to perform works by Jacques de la Presle.
A recording by the Trio Johanna of chamber music by Charles Koechlin and Belgian composer Luc Baiwir was released in 2020 by the same publisher. Nicolas Bacri’s complete works for solo violin, released in 2021 by Azur Classical, received 5 stars from Classica and 4 from Diapason. For Jacques Bonnaure, ‘Gautier Dooghe puts his imagination and transcendent virtuosity at the service of beautiful, mature pages’.
A passionate pedagogue, he has been teaching at the Douai CRR since 2014.
He plays an 18th-century French violin by Jacques Bocquay and a bow by Jean- Marc Panhaleux.
