Claudine Simon is a pianist and sound artist who experiments with lutherie and the possibilities offered by her instrument.
She trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris with Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and has had many encounters that have nourished her artistic practice. As a performer, she is committed to defending the works of the repertoire as well as those of living composers.
Today, she is developing projects at the frontier of several fields : between sound and visual creation, theatre and movement, revisiting the piano and its imaginary world.
In 2021, she created Pianomachine, a choreographed solo with a piano hybridised by machines, followed by Anatomia in 2023 (premiered at the Musica festival in Strasbourg), a Lisztian recital that becomes anatomical theatre.
In 2025, she will create Un pays supplémentaire, a form for young people and all audiences that is somewhere between a visual installation and sound theatre.
She was commissioned by the Festival Printemps des Arts in Montecarlo to create a new work of music-theatre in April 2026.
She is a prizewinner in the Mondes Nouveaux call for proposals, and receives writing grants from the Fondation Beaumarchais-SACD. She has also been commissioned by the CNCM (GMEM, Césaré, Ici l’Onde) and the Printemps des Arts Festival. Her work has been performed at the Bouffes du Nord, the Philharmonie de Paris, Operas (Lyon, Reims, Dijon, Rennes), La Criée, Scènes Nationales and Scènes Pluridisciplinaires in France.