Violinist Lise Martel departs the Opéra national de Paris to take up the role
French violinist Lise Martel has been announced as a new concertmaster of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, joining current super solo violins Nicolas Gourbeix and Kazimierz Olechowski.
Martel is currently third solo violin of the Opéra national de Paris and will be in the orchestra’s upcoming performance of ‘Fantasies along the River Thames’ at the Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen later in April. She was previously co-soloist of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, was a founding member of the Orfeo Quartet, and has played with the Hernani Quartet.
Martel began learning the violin at the age of five with Jérôme Akoka and received an award to advance her studies at the École Nationale de Musique de Gennevilliers. She then attended the National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, studying with Boris Garlitsky and Igor Volochine, and was selected to participate in masterclasses with violinist Renaud Capuçon in Monaco.
Petteri Iivonen, the first solo violin at Opéra national de Paris, offered congratulations to his colleague on social media:
‘Extremely happy for Lise Martel for her nomination as the concertmaster of the Lyon Opéra! We played sooooooo much together and it is so well deserved.’
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