After 13 rich and exciting years at the CNSMD in Lyon, Françoise Gnéri will be appointed to the CNSMD in Paris in 2023.
She is a musician with an eclectic and original career path, distinguished by her passionate commitment to teaching and to a wide variety of projects.
As soon as she left the Cnsmdp, she joined the ensembles 2E2M, l'Iinéraire and Musique Oblique.
Within these ensembles, as solo viola, she has taken part in a large number of solo and chamber music creations, as well as a large number of CDs.
She was also involved in the creation of the Phénix ensemble with a group of young composers including Thierry Escaich and Guillaume Connesson.
She was a soloist with the Paris Opera Orchestra for several years, where she met some of the greatest conductors (Seiji Osawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung, etc.) and developed a sense of lyricism and drama that has remained with her ever since. Her intense activity as a chamber musician and her in-depth knowledge of twentieth-century music have earned her invitations to perform on the most important French stages (including the Paris Opera).e on the most important stages in France (Châtelet, Radio-France, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Beaubourg etc.) and abroad (Bremen, Venice, Lisbon etc.).She has performed with such artists as Philip Hirschorn, Christoph Henkel, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Maxim Vengerov, François Salque, Claire Désert, Olivier Charlier, Marie Josephe-Jude, Marianne Piketty and many others...
She also took part in the creation of the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, and her meeting with Philippe Herreweghe was a determining factor in her interest in baroque music.
With Denis Pascal, she has recorded the Brahms sonatas and Schumann's sonata for violin and piano in A minor, transcribed for viola, a disc for which she received the best reviews. She has also recorded the 6 Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach for Polymnie.
Asked by Jean-François Zygel to take part in his music lessons and his classical cabaret, she shares his taste for creating a dynamic relationship between audience and performer.She puts her talent to good use in original events, mixing new audiences in unusual places, with a desire to share and communicate.
Finally, in 2015 she founded the Collectif Fractales, a collective of young artists committed to bringing classical music to places where it doesn't go. At the same time, she created two festivals in which creation plays an important part: She plays a viola by Raphael and Anton Gagliano from 1856 and a viola by Charotte from 1837.
