Claudine Simon is a pianist, artist and improviser, developing a body of sound work that experiments with the lutherie and capabilities of her instrument. A versatile musician, she has a taste for writing at the frontiers of music, dance and visual works.
She trained at the CNSMD in Paris with Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and has had many encounters that have nourished her career and her artistic practice.
As a performer, she is committed to defending the works of the repertoire as well as those of today’s composers.
Her creative work focuses on the conception of performances that allow her to question her relationship with the instrument.
In 2021, she created Pianomachine, a choreographed solo in which the musician-instrument relationship is replayed with a piano hybridised by machines.
In 2023, at the Musica festival (Strasbourg), she created Anatomia, a sound and visual piece in which a piano and a scene from a romantic recital are decomposed.
She has received support from the Fondation Beaumarchais-SACD, commissions from GMEM-CNCM and Césaré-CNCM, and is a prizewinner in the Ministry of Culture’s “Mondes Nouveaux” competition. Her works have been performed at the Bouffes du Nord, Scènes Nationales (Orléans, Chambéry, Vandoeuvre), Operas (Lyon, Reims, Dijon), CNCMs and festivals…