Leclair Complete Violin Concertos: New Release!
Stéphanie-Marie Degand is one of the few performers today capable of mastering the techniques and codes of a repertoire ranging from the 17th century to contemporary works.
Trained in Caen by Jean-Walter Audoli and Emmanuelle Haïm, she was unanimously accepted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Jacques Ghestem's class, where she immediately asserted her ambition to break down barriers between repertoires, benefiting from the teaching of masters such as Jacques Rouvier, Alain Meunier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, as well as William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Patrick Bismuth, and Christophe Coin. She won four first prizes and continued her violin studies before embarking on an atypical career.
An accomplished soloist, passionate chamber musician, committed concertmaster, conductor, and teacher, her artistic approach has been recognized with numerous awards: Grand Prix Adami 95, 2nd Grand Prix at the Ferras-Barbizet Competition 97, Classical Revelation at Midem 98, Natixis Laureate 99, Sacem Prize 2002, Revelation “Instrumental Soloist” at the Victoires de la Musique 2005.
She performs in the most prestigious concert halls under the baton of Emmanuel Krivine, Francois-Xavier Roth, Jérémie Rhorer, and Laurence Equilbey, and in chamber ensembles alongside Marie-Josèphe Jude, François-Frédéric Guy, Christie Julien, Violaine Cochard, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Marc Coppey, Miguel Da Silva, and others.
In 2000, she co-founded Le Concert d'Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm, where she was concertmaster and then musical assistant, before founding the ensemble La Diane Française in 2016, with which she explores all facets of French art through the centuries as artistic director.
Among the orchestras she has conducted are the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Orchestre National Avignon Provence, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, the Orchestre d'Orléans, and the Orchestre Pasdeloup.
From the violin, she has conducted the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, and the Auvergne Orchestra, and was assistant conductor to Jérémie Rhorer for Don Giovanni at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2016, to Sébastien Rouland for Le Postillon de Longjumeau at the Opéra Comique in 2019, and Laurent Campellone for Fantasio in 2020, the latter inviting her to conduct Grétry's La Caravane du Caire at the Opéra de Tours in 2022.
Deeply involved in training young artists, whether instrumentalists or conductors, she regularly conducts youth ensembles such as the CNSMD orchestras of Lyon and Paris, the Hector Berlioz European Youth Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Academy, the Trondheim Barokkorkester Academy in Norway, the Campos do Jordao International Winter Festival Orchestra in Brazil, and the Jeune Orchestre de l'Abbaye de Saintes.
She also holds a CA degree and has been teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris since 2012, both as a professor of “modern” violin and in the early music department.
Her discography faithfully illustrates this insatiable musical curiosity, from Monteverdi to Tanguy, from romantic concertos to violin-harpsichord duets.
Stéphanie-Marie Degand has been represented by the RSB Artists agency since 2019.
