A multi-faceted violist, Vinciane Béranger wishes to make the viola better known, and to create bridges between the various forms of expression.
The years spent in the Manfred Quartet and his intense activity as a chamber musician earned him being invited to the most important French and foreign stages (Salle Gaveau and Chopin Pleyel in Paris, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Mozarteum in Salzburg , Kennedy Center in Washington).
She is also a privileged interpreter of contemporary composers : György Kurtag, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Thierry Pécou, Betsy Jolas, Edith Canat de Chizy, Suzanne Giraud, Martin Matalon and Nicolas Bacri.
The links between spoken text and music enrich his work. In 2019, she created the piece " Harold en Italie ", around the masterpiece by Hector Berlioz after a residency at Royaumont Abbey. The Ranelagh Theater in Paris hosts shows around Mozart and Debussy, created by the Helios Ensemble.
She performs as a soloist with European and American orchestras and participates in the festivals of Marlboro (USA), Les Arcs, Ile de France, Aix en Provence, Auvers-sur-Oise, Juventus in Cambrai, Les Folles Days in Nantes and Tokyo, at the Rencontres musicales d'Evian, at the Flâneries de Reims...
His discography, mainly with ZigZag Territoires, includes works by Robert Schumann for viola and piano ; a baroque recital for viola and harp ; Bach/Coltrane for quartet, organ and saxophone ; Mozart Quartets and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings ; Werg/Webern/Schönberg for quartet and voice…
Already Grand Prix of the Charles Cros Academy, Vinciane Béranger receives for her Robert Schumann album, a very warm welcome from the specialized press :
« The extreme finesse of Vinciane Béranger's hypersensitive, airy and always accurate bowing… A major contribution to the discography_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136_bad5cf58d » (Directory)
« Young musicians have that charming je-ne-sais-quoi that makes their interpretation both lively and delicate in refinement » (Classica)
“ A visually and musically exemplary vision ” (Piano magazine)
A sought-after pedagogue, she teaches at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne and at the CRR in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (94). Holder of the Certificate of Aptitude for teaching the viola, she regularly gives Master Classes. Her interest in pedagogy led her to lead training courses at the CNSMDP in didactics. His passion for the quartet was reflected in his teaching for Pro Quartet.
Admitted at the age of 16 to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Gérard Caussé, Vinciane Béranger won a first prize in viola unanimously and a first prize in chamber music. She perfected her skills with Kim Kashkashian in Germany and completed her training at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia as a recipient of the Lavoisier Bursary from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Fulbright program.
Winner of the Connelly Memorial Prize at the International Competition in Washington, and the International Competition in Rome, Second Prize in the Lyceum Club Competition in Bern, First Prize in the Illzach Competition, she is also a laureate of the Natexis-Banques Populaires Foundation.
She plays a viola by Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, dated 1770.