STÉPHANIE-MARIE
VIOLIN
DEGAND

Stéphanie-Marie Degand is today one of the rare performers capable of mastering the techniques and codes of a repertoire ranging from the 17th century to contemporary creation.

Trained in Caen by Jean-Walter Audoli and Emmanuelle Haïm, she unanimously entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Jacques Ghestem and immediately affirmed her ambition to decompartmentalize repertoires, benefiting from the teaching of masters such as Jacques Rouvier, Alain Meunier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, but also William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Patrick Bismuth and Christophe Coin. She won 4 first prizes and followed violin improvement, before starting an atypical career.

Confirmed soloist, passionate chamber musician, committed concertmaster, conductor and teacher, her artistic approach has been recognized by numerous awards: Grand Prix Adami 95, 2nd Grand Prize of the Ferras-Barbizet Competition 97, Classical Revelation at Midem 98, Natexis 99 Laureate, Prize from Sacem 2002, Revelation "Instrumental Soloist" at the Victoires de la Musique 2005.

She performs in the most prestigious venues under the direction of Emmanuel Krivine, Francois-Xavier Roth, Jérémie Rhorer, Laurence Equilbey and in chamber training alongside Marie-Josèphe Jude, François-Frédéric Guy, Christie Julien, Violaine Cochard , Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Marc Coppey, Miguel Da Silva…

In 2000, she was co-founder with Emmanuelle Haïm of the Concert d'Astrée, of which she was concertmaster then musical assistant, before founding in 2016 the ensemble La Diane Française, with which she explored as artistic director all facets of French art through the centuries.

During the 2022-2023 season she conducts concerts with the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, the Orchester d'Orléans, the CNSMD Orchestra of Lyon and prepares the CNSMD orchestra of Paris for the performances of Dido and Aeneas, then conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.

This season she is giving the program “La Cuisine de la Cheffe” at the head of the Orchester national des Pays de la Loire, directing La Diane française, and speaking with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Academy and the CRR Orchestra of Versailles.

On the violin, she has conducted the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, L'Orchestre d'Auvergne and was assistant conductor to Jérémie Rhorer for Don Giovanni at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2016, and to Sébastien Rouland for Le Postillon in Longjumeau at the Opéra Comique in 2019, then Laurent Campellone for Fantasio in 2020, the latter then inviting him to direct La Caravane du Caire by Grétry at the Opéra de Tours, in 2022.

Holder of a CA, she has taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris since 2012, both as a “modern” violin teacher and in the early music department.

His discography faithfully illustrates this insatiable musical curiosity, from Monteverdi to Tanguy, from the romantic concerto to the violin-harpsichord duo.