French viola da gamba player Salom\u00e9 Gasselin won a unanimous first prize at the Gianni\u00a0Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Switzerland in 2020. She had already won several\u00a0prizes as a soloist \u2013 including a second prize at the 2018 Bach-Abel Competition in K\u00f6then\u00a0\u2013 as well as chamber music prizes with the Goldfinch Ensemble.<\/p>\n
After hesitating between a career in rugby, drawing or genetics, she chose music and\u00a0entered Marianne Muller\u2019s class at the Lyon Conservatoire (CNSMD). She then studied at the\u00a0Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague with Philippe Pierlot, and finally at the Salzburg\u00a0Mozarteum with Vittorio Ghielmi. In parallel to her musical training, Salom\u00e9 studied\u00a0modern literature at the University of Paris X.\u00a0She soon joined several ensembles of her generation and played with Pygmalion, Jupiter,\u00a0Capriccio Stravagante, Ratas Del Viejo Mundo, Le Po\u00e8me Harmonique and Masques.\u00a0Attracted by contemporary creation, she works with composers such as Philippe\u00a0Gouttenoire and Jerzy Bielski, as well as with the director Lazare Herson-Macarel.<\/p>\n
In addition to her concerts, and her viola da gamba class at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatoire\u00a0in Marseille, she dreams of marquetry on early instruments, and has a passion for the sound\u00a0studies and for cheese.<\/p>\n
Salom\u00e9 plays a bass viol made in Paris by Simon Bongars in 1653.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
French viola da gamba player Salom\u00e9 Gasselin won a unanimous first prize at the Gianni\u00a0Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Switzerland in 2020. She had already won several\u00a0prizes as a soloist \u2013 including a second prize at the 2018 Bach-Abel Competition in K\u00f6then\u00a0\u2013 as well as chamber music prizes with the Goldfinch Ensemble. After hesitating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17209,"template":"","class_list":["post-17208","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n