Isabelle Durin

After studying violin for several years, she entered the “Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional” in Versailles in Alexandre Brussilovsky’s class, where she won a first prize (gold medal) in violin, as well as a first prize in chamber music and honorary first prize for violin. In the same time she studied philosophy in the University La Sorbonne and obtained a post graduate diploma (D.E.A.) in 1998. She was accepted at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique” in Lyon where she worked with Jean Estournet and Kazimierz Olechovski. She received her degree (DNESM) in 2001, after which she further perfected her knowledge and practice of chamber music alongside famous violinists like Patrice Fontanarosa and Jean- Pierre Sabouret, Boris Garlitsky, Roland Daugareil and Shmuel Ashkenazi (during the Shleswig Holstein Muzik Festival in Lübeck.) She also attended the chamber music class at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique” in Paris (Alain Meunier and Michel Strauss) and toured, notably with the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchestra. is a member of the Ile-de-France National Orchestra under the baton of Yoel Levi since 2003 and now under the conductor Enrique Mazzola. She received the bronze medal from the Society for the Encouragement of Progress. In collaboration with French cultural centers, she gives concerts in France and abroad in prestigious venues, including the Opera and the French Space in Hanoi, the Museum of Art and History of Judaism and the Holocaust Memorial in Paris, the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Galicia Jewish Museum in Cracow… Since 2002, she has been the artistic director of the Musical Festival of the Château of the Legion of Honor in Pouy-sur- Vannes and now the « Harmonies Estivales » of Villeneuve l’Archevêque. With Michaël Ertzscheid, she performed also in United-States (Miami Beach, West Palm Beach, Puerto Rico), and in Colombia (Medelin, Bogota, Cali) in april 2011 during a tour organized by the French Delegation of the Alliances Françaises in USA and with the harpist Agnès Peytour in Rotterdam (jewish Community), and in Amsterdam in the Portuguese Synagogue, but also in Oxford, Cambridge, and London. Her second CD « Mémoire et Cinéma »/Cinema remembrance is to be released in autumn 2017 (Paraty/Harmonia Mundi).