Lise Berthaud was born in 1982 and started studying the violin with Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. She was a prize winner of the European Young Instrumentalists Competition IN 2000. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition.

As a soloist, Lise has played with renowned orchestras such as BBC philharmonic orchestras, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Belgique, les Musiciens du Louvre, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

After taking part in Eric Le Sage’s successful Schumann and Fauré recording, she released her first solo album in 2013 with pianist Adam Laloum under the French Aparté label. In 2013, Leonard Slatkin who invited Lise to perform and record (for Naxos) Harold in Italy with the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of the orchestra’s Berlioz complete works recording for Naxos. In 2018, she participed with Pierre Fouchenneret, Éric Le Sage, François Salque and other musicians in the recording of an integral of brahms’ chamber music.

Her passion for chamber music has also lead her to collaborate with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Éric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Louis Lortie… She is a co-founder member of the Strada Quartet (with Sarah Nemtanu, Pierre Fouchenneret and François Salque).

Lise Berthaud plays a 1660 Antonio Casini viola, courtesy of Bernard Magrez.

Language spoken : French 

Photo credit : Marie Rolland