Christophe Desjardins (24 April 1962 – 13 February 2020) was a French violist and specialist in contemporary music.
[1] Born in Caen, Christophe Desjardins entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1982, at the age of 20, in Serge Collot's class.
[2] In 1990, he was solo violist at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Desjardins premiered works for viola by Ivan Fedele, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Michael Jarrell, Michaël Levinas, Emmanuel Nunes, Jonathan Harvey, Wolfgang Rihm and Gianvincenzo Cresta.
[1] In addition to numerous world premieres, Desjardins taught at several universities, including the Juilliard School in New York.