Claudine Simon is a pianist, artist and improviser, developing a body of sound work that experiments with the construction and capabilities of her instrument. A versatile musician, she has a taste for writing at 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.)
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, commissioned by the GMEM-CNCM, which is an electromechanical device that intervenes at the heart of the piano, its structure and its lutherie. By modelling 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.
She is currently working on her new creation, Anatomia, which is a sound and visual piece that dissects the piano and a work by Franz Liszt. First performed on 28 September 2023 at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg.
For more information -> interview with Guillaume Kosmicki