The Lethiec sisters are two brilliant, creative musicians with international careers of their own, who come together for our pleasure this evening.

Saskia Lethiec is a laureate of the Ferras-Barbizet and Enesco international competitions in Bucharest. Trained at the Conservatoire de Genève, the CNSMD in Paris and the Hochschule in Cologne, she attended master-classes with Walter Levin, Hatto Beyerle, Miriam Fried and Maurice Hasson.

A guest of various chamber ensembles and orchestras, she performs at numerous festivals and prestigious concert halls.

She founded the Hoboken Trio with Jérôme Granjon in 2003 and has been co-director of the Festival Erard Paris since 2022, preparing a new recording with Vinciane Béranger and David Louwerse for 2023.

Highly creative, in 2017 she founded the Lugha Quartet with Michel Pozmanter, Raphaële Semezis and Maximilien Porché to perform the complete quartets of Haydn and Mozart over seven years at the Temple de Montrouge and the Eglise Réformée de la Rencontre in Paris.

Since 2003, she has been co-director with François Salque of the Musique d’Un Siècle Festival, which programs mainly works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

She teaches at the CRR de Versailles, and gives master-classes in Asia and at various summer academies.

Karine Lethiec

Karine Lethiec holds master’s degrees in violin, viola and chamber music from the Lyon, Paris, Geneva and Berne conservatoires. She studied in the United States at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute for young Artists in Chicago and with masters Walter Levin and Hatto Beyerle. She is a professor at the Conservatoires de la Ville de Paris and was a student advisor between 2014 and 2018.

An eclectic and passionate artist, violist Karine Lethiec is recognized today for her high standards and artistic openness, which make her a sought-after musician, particularly for her expertise as a concert performer and her conception of interdisciplinary programs and projects weaving together Music, Fine Arts, History, Archaeology and Science.

Involved in various cultural projects, she has been Artistic Director of the Ensemble Calliopée since 2000, of the Amadeus Festival in Geneva from 2004 to 2009, of the Rencontres musicales de Saint-Cézaire from 2001 to 2020, and of the Festival & Académie Jeunes Talents Autour du Ventoux since 2021. She works in scientific partnership with the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale and is a founding member, alongside astrophysicist Jean Audouze, of the AST21 collective, Arts, Sciences et Technologies du 21e siècle.

Karine Lethiec is a prizewinner of the Tertis International Viola Competition and the Fondation Banque Populaire, and plays a Sympertus Niggel viola from 1777.

She performs in the most prestigious concert halls and as a soloist with the greatest orchestras. With her friend, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, she has conceived and performed shows such as Cosmophonies and Mozart et les étoiles, which combine Music, Astronomy, Nature and protection of the planet.

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