Elsa Grether


Elsa Grether is a French classical violinist, laureate of the International Pro Musicis 2009 Prize unanimously by the jury, who made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and in Boston in 2012.

Training

Born in Mulhouse, Grether began playing the violin at the age of five. She obtained a first prize in violin unanimously from the jury at the on her fifteenth birthday. She continued her training abroad at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Ruggiero Ricci, then in the United States with Mauricio Fuks at the Indiana University Bloomington and Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music of Boston. She also benefited from the advice of Régis Pasquier in Paris.

Style and repertoire

As a soloist with orchestra, she has played numerous concertos
She performs in recital in prestigious festivals and venues in France and abroad:, Festival de Menton Bozar and Le Flagey in Brussels, Salle Cortot in Paris, Musica Festival in Strasbourg, Forest Festival, Sully Festival, Festival Lille Clef de Soleil, Palazzetto Bru-Zane in Venice, Radio Suisse-Romande in Geneva, Festival Musiques en Eté in Geneva, Festival Cully Classique, Flâneries musicales de Reims, Festival de Saint-Lizier, Festival des Abbayes en Lorraine, Festival de Musique Sacrée de Perpignan, Festival Berlioz, Grandes Heures de Cluny, Chicago Myra Hess Concert Series, Mozarteum in Salzbourg, Radio Nationale d’Alger, Scène Nationale de Martinique etc.
She collaborates in particular with pianists David Lively, :eo:Ferenc Vizi|Ferenc Vizi, François Dumont, Marie Vermeulin, Johan Schmidt, Delphine Bardin, as well as with Jérémy Jouve, Régis Pasquier etc.
She is also fond of the solo violin repertoire, performing in very eclectic programmes.

Critics

devoted a program to her in "Toute la musique qu'ils aiment" and she is regularly invited on France Musique, France Culture, Musiq’3, RTS Suisse et Accent4.
Her first three CDs, released by Fuga Libera, got unanimous reviews, especially in specialized magazines

Discography