Claudine Simon is a pianist, artist and improviser. She is developing a sound creation work that focuses on experimenting with the construction and capacities of her instrument. A versatile musician, she has a taste for writing on the boundaries between music, dance and theatre.
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 soloist or as a chamber musician, she has performed at the Opéra de Lyon, La Roque d’Anthéron, the Opéra Comique, the Cité de la Musique, the Hôtel National des Invalides, at the festivals of Tautavel and Aix-en-Provence, as well as abroad (tours in India, China, Europe, etc.)
As a performer, she is committed to defending the works of the repertoire as well as those of today’s composers. At the same time, her creative work focuses on the conception of performances that allow her to question her relationship with the instrument.
She conceived Pianomachine, a device that intervenes in the heart of the piano, its structure, transforms its timbre, its lutherie, and questions its organismic unity. By shaping the instrument’s sound capacities, she opens up a new playing space that allows her to work in its margins, in its entrails and it is her own sound grammar that she can revisit and regenerate.