Lise Berthaud

She was born in Bourg-en-Bresse[1] in the Ain department in south-east France on the Swiss border, in the Rhône-Alpes region.

Her father is the headmaster of a school in Jassans-Riottier, and her mother is a teacher in Trévoux.

She started learning the violin aged 5 at a music school at Villefranche-sur-Saône.

In the Victoires de la musique classique (a category of the Victoires de la Musique) in January 2009, she was nominated for Revelation Instrumental Soloist of the Year (Révélation instrumentale de l’Année), which was broadcast on France Inter and France Musique (radio), and on France 3 (television).

In 2006 she was invited to perform with the Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa in his string quartet (Quatuor à Cordes) in Switzerland.