Biography
Geneviève Strosser is one of the most interesting and accomplished viola players of today.
As a soloist, she performs with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Ensemble Resonanz, NDR Elbphilharmonie, the Tokyo Symphony, La Verdi Milano, SWR, WDR, Residentie Orchester Den Haag, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, under the direction of Peter Eötvös, Brad Lubman, Heinz Holliger, Bas Wiegers, Emilio Pomarico, Stefan Asbury.
She is regularly invited to give recitals in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Switzerland.
Geneviève Strosser is a fervent advocate of the music of our time. Demonstrating great ecleticism in her aesthetic choices, she is one of the most recognised and sought-after violists currently performing the repertoire of the 20th and 21st century. She gives numerous premieres, working with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Franco Donatoni, Heinz Holliger, Isabel Mundry, Alberto Posadas, Peter Eötvös and George Benjamin.
Read MoreStefano Gervasoni, Hugues Dufourt, Laurent Cuniot have each dedicated a viola concerto to her. Geneviève plays with all the major European modern music ensembles, including projects under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, Sylvain Cambreling, Jonathan Nott and George Benjamin. She was a member of Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Recherche.
Her playing particularly inspires Georges Aperghis, who has written several solo and chamber music pieces for her. She has taken part in three of his musical theatre pieces, “Commentaires“, “Machinations” and “Un Temps Bis“. This intense collaboration with Georges Aperghis has led to her develop a more theatrical side, adding voice and movement to her performance repertoire on stage.
Over a decade, Geneviève Strosser played in the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti among others. She is now regularly invited as guest principal viola in orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Wales, Orchestre National de France, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Orchestre du Théâtre de la Monnaie Bruxelles.
Geneviève Strosser has been member of the Vellinger String Quartet in London (with Gordan Nikolitch, Philippe Honoré and Sally Pendlebury).
Her portrait CD album is released by the label Aeon, and her other recordings include those on ECM, Kairos, Hungaroton Classic.
Alongside her concert activities, Geneviève is also much in demand as a teacher. A dedicated pedagogue, she has taught at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she was the assistant to Jean Sulem at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
She is currently Professor of viola at the Basel Musikhochschule in Switzerland, and regularly invited to give master-classes and workshops at other distinguished European festivals, string courses and conservatoires.
Geneviève Strosser was born in Strasbourg, studied viola with Claude Ducrocq then with Serge Collot and Jean Sulem at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, further developing her practice through classes with Nobuko Imai, Yuri Bashmet, Bruno Giuranna, György Kurtág.
She plays a viola made by Matthias Albani in 1660.