Elise Bertrand violinist and composer

Born in 2000, Élise Bertrand began playing the piano at the age of 5, the violin at the age of 8, and composition three years later.

Nominated ‘Instrumental Soloist of the Year’ at the 2024 Victoires de la Musique awards, Élise has a dual career as a violinist and composer, passionately championing the lesser-known and contemporary repertoire, combining interpretation and creation.

A much-appreciated chamber musician, she performs alongside Gaspard Thomas, as part of a duo, but also as a soloist in various concertos from Vivaldi to Szymanowski, including those by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Kossenko and her own works, which she plays alongside the Ensemble Appassionato, the Orchestre de Montpellier, Casco Phil, the Mahlerian Camerata, the Orchestre Colonne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Provence, the Orchestre Etesias et Azur, the Ensemble les Déconcertants, the OLC... etc

She is currently in her 3rd cycle of violin studies (Diplôme d'Artiste Interprète) at the CNSMDP, which will enable her to perform as soloist with the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire at the Cité de la Musique in Szymanowski's 2nd Concerto in 2025.

After studying at the Toulon Conservatoire, she entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied violin with Suzanne Gessner and composition with Nicolas Bacri.
At the CNSMDP, she obtained a master's degree in violin and a master's degree in chamber music sonata with Gaspard Thomas, while continuing her studies in the advanced writing classes at the same institution (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, etc.). In 2022, she became Artist in Residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Augustin Dumay's class.

A laureate of the Gautier Capuçon, L'Or du Rhin, Safran and Charles Oulmont Foundations, Elise has won numerous violin, chamber music and composition competitions. In autumn 2019, she won 2nd Prize in the Ginette Neveu International Competition and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece.

She will take part in the Académie de Villecroze (2019), the Seiji Ozawa and International Menuhin Music Academies (2021 and 2022), the Académie Jaroussky (2021-2022) in the Tchaikovsky class, the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Gil Shaham in 2023 and the Académie Ravel in 2024.

As a violinist, she has performed at La Roque-d'Anthéron, in recital at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, the Fondation Maeght in St Paul de Vence, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival, the Palazetto Bru Zane in Venice, the Antwerp Spring Festival, the Colmar International Festival and the L'Offrande Musicale Festival.

Published by Billaudot and Klarthe, his works have been commissioned by ensembles, eminent instrumentalists, competitions and institutions, and have been broadcast on France Musique, Radio Classique and ARTE Concert. In 2022, his Sonate-Poème, Op.11 was awarded the medal of the Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts d'Arras. She has also been the subject of articles in Classica, Diapason, Pianiste, Classykeo, Traversières Magazine and The Strad Korea.

Élise has been composer-in-residence at the Festival d'Auvers sur Oise, for the Classeek Ambassador Program, and has honoured commissions from the Quatuor Modigliani, the NFB, Emmanuelle Bertrand, the Piano Campus, Épinal and Larrieu competitions, Augustin Dumay, the Orchestre Colonne, Les Métaboles, the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Renaud Capuçon and others...
After a first monographic recording, ‘Lettera Amorosa’, acclaimed by the press, her next recording as a composer will be for the Claves label in winter 2025. Élise plays a violin by Joseph Gagliano, Naples 1796, generously loaned by the Fondation d'entreprise Société Générale.

She is represented by Agence Nicole Viciana.

February 13, 2025 - Théâtre du Châtelet
Orchestra Seats – Mozart’s Rondo in C with ONDIF, Michèle Spotti conducting

February 24-26, 2025 - Paris
Recording 2nd composition disc
Label NomadMusic

March 8, 2025 - Victoria Hall – Geneva
Les Traversées.7 as a soloist with the Orchestre des Nations

March 21, 2025 - Oratoire du Louvre, Paris.
Beethoven Concerto with the Etesias Orchestra, Clément Pottier, conductor

March 23, 2025 - St Louis en l’Ile Church, Paris
Beethoven Concerto with the Etesias Orchestra, Clément Pottier, conductor

March 28, 2025 - St Eloi Church Paris
Beethoven Concerto with the Etesias Orchestra, Clément Pottier, conductor

March 29, 2025 - Ste Claire d’Assise Church
ParisBeethoven Concerto with the Etesias Orchestra, Clément Pottier, conductor

April 23, 2025 - News - Cité de la Musique, Paris
2nd Concerto by K. Szymanowski as soloist with the OLC, conducted by Ustina Dubitsky

April 25, 2025 - Lacanau Océan
Trio (Cras, E. Bertrand) and Schubert String Quintet

April 27, 2025 - Ervy le Chatel
Recital with Maelle Martin (harp)

May 6, 2025 - News - Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Belgium
Residency as composer: Creation for voice and piano quintet, Belgian creation of the string trio…

May 20, 2025 - Basilica of Saint Maximin
Brahms Double Concerto with Xavier Châtillon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Provence and Dylan Samuel, Conductor

May 22, 2025 - 8 p.m. Six Fours- La Vague Classique
Mozart Sonata k.304 with Shani di Luka

May 23, 2025 - 8 p.m. Six Fours- La Vague Classique
Schumann and Brahms Piano Quartets (with G. Capuçon, A Sypniewski, M. Consonni)

June 7 2025 - Fontenay Abbey
Recital with Gabriel Durliat
(Beethoven, Bach, Brahms…)

June 16, 2025 - Army Museum, Paris
Violin-piano-harp recital with Nadja Dornik

June 21, 2025 - Preludia – Château du Riau
Vivaldi, Bartok, Mozart, E. Bertrand: Lettera Amorosa (Iris Daverio, Sarah Chenaf, Amanda Favier…)

June 24, 2025 - Chateau Gombert
Brahms Double Concerto with Xavier Châtillon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Provence and Dylan Samuel, Conductor

June 27, 2025 - Vézelay
Ce qui dure, reprise by Les Métaboles

June 29, 2025 - News - Prayssas
Trio concert with Roustem Saïtkoulov and Maxime Grizard

July 6, 2025 - Grans
Brahms Double Concerto with Xavier Châtillon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Provence and Dylan Samuel, Conductor

July 13, 2025 - Prieuré de Chirens
Recital with Gaspard Thomas

July 16, 2025 - Castres
Recital with Gaspard Thomas

July 26, 2025 - La Rochelle - Festival Ondes Classiques
Recital with Iris Daverio and Maelle Martin

July 28, 2025 - Festival Blanchardeau, Brittany
Trio with Lisa Strauss and Karen Karonuma (E. Bertrand, Debussy, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn..)

August 6, 2025 - Underground Cathedral, St Martin de Pallières
Recital with Gaspard Thomas
(Bloch, Szymanowski, Ravel)

August 8, 2025 - St Félix de Villadeix
Recital with Clarissa Bevilacqua (Bartok 44 duets)

August 11, 2025 - Uzerche
Octuor and Seasons by Vivaldi

August 22-30, 2025 - Chaise Dieu Festival
Residency with Gaspard Thomas

August 30, 2025 - Souvigny
E.Bertrand (Lettera Amorosa)