Lise Berthaud

Lise Berthaud was born in 1982 and started studying the violin at the age of 5 before shifting to viola. She studied with Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and was a prize winner of the European Young Instrumentalists Competition in 2000. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition. She was short listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2009 as “Révélation de l’Année” (Revelation of the Year).

Ыince September 2013, Lise has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

With her warm, flexible tone, Lise Berthaud gives a performance of enormous expressive range and tosses off the more showy passages with virtuoso panache...All in all, it's a wonderfully played recital, drawing the listener into the world of each composer.

Lise Berthaud is unanimously praised as an outstanding rising figure on the music scene. She is a guest of various prestigious concert venues and festivals throughout Europe (Wigmore Hall, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Pleyel, Festival de Montpellier-Radio France, Festival Berlioz de la Côte Saint-André, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Davos Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Cork Festival, Moritzburg Festival, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Sunmore Festival, Korsholm festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice) with such artists as Renaud Capuçon, Eric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emmanuel Pahud, Gordan Nikollich, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Alina Ibragimova, Veronika Eberle, Christian Poltera, David Kadouch, Daishin Kashimoto, Quatuor Ebène, the Modigliani Quartet.

In September 2013, she was selected to be part of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme and is invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She will perform recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, Auvers-sur-Oise, Renaud Capuçon’s Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence.

In October 2013, Leonard Slatkin invited Lise to perform and record Berlioz’ Harold in Italy with the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of the orchestra’s Berlioz cycle for Naxos.

That same month, her first CD as a soloist with pianist Adam Laloum was released and awarded several prizes including the most sought after Diapason d’Or.

As a soloist, Lise has also been a guest of the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, les Musiciens du Louvre, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sao Paulo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, and various major orchestras in France, with conductors like Emmanuel Krivine, Sakari Oramo, Fabien Gabel, Paul Mc Creesh, Marc Minkowski. In 2010 she was invited to play Harold en Italie with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre for the opening night of the prestigious Berlioz Festival at La Côte Saint-André in France. In 2011 and 2012 she took part in Eric Le Sage’s recording of Schumann’s and Fauré’s complete works getting rave reviews and varied prizes including Choc de l’Année by Classica Magazine (Paris) and a Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in Germany) . …

Lise has worked with several major contemporary composers, including Philippe Hersant, Thierry Escaich, Henri Dutilleux, Gyorgy Kurtag, Guillaume Connesson.