Charlotte Orcel
MUSICFOR SWITZERLAND, Executive Director
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Charlotte Orcel is a French violinist and painter. Through her artistic and attentive look, she dedicates herself to the care of the Musicfor International image on the social media, and contributes to the elaboration and development of various projects and concerts. She started music at the CRR in Nantes, until she obtained the DEM and then a prize of Perfectionism. She continued her studies in Paris, and was then admitted in 2016 at the Haute École de Musique of Geneva (Switzerland), in the class of Sergey Ostrovsky. She graduated brilliantly with a Bachelor of Arts (2019), a Master of Interpretation (2021), and a Master of Pedagogy (2023). She was awarded for the excellence of her recitals of the Prize « Pierre Vidoudez » (2021), and supported for her talent beeing laureate of the Lalive Foundation in Geneva from 2017 to 2023, having a loan of a J. Hel violin of 1888.
Passionate about orchestral playing from a young age, Charlotte won a position with the French Youth Orchestra in 2013 and was subsequently invited to perform with the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra. She is the Principal Second Violin of the Orchestre Saint-Pierre Fusterie in Switzerland and regularly performs with a wide variety of professional orchestras and string ensembles in many festivals in France and abroad (Festival Puplinge Classique, Festival of Bellerive, Summer Strings Festival, Les Folles Journées de Nantes, Festival Classiques au Vert, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Summerfest of SOTA-USA Florida, Enescu Music World Festival…). She accompanied soloists such as Nelson Freire, Nigel Kennedy, Gilles Apap, François-René Duchâble, Jean Frédéric Neuburger, Stéphanie-Marie Degand… In 2022, she was a laureate of the Sinfonietta of Geneva, and known as a dynamic and leader musician with precise and energetic playing, she is regularly invited as a concermaster. She is also active in ballet productions, operas and musicals.
Keenly interested in chamber music, she played with numerous formations around the world, such as Ensemble Contrechamps, QuartettOrfeo, Compagnie Femmeuse, and music ensembles from duo to quintet (France, Brasil, Switzerland, USA, Spain…). Approaching a varied repertoire, she received valuable advices from renowned artists, such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Maximilian Haft, Madeleine Carruzzo, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Marie Charvet, Mariana Sîrbu, Suzanne Marie, …
Her stage persona is described as “magnetic and appealing” (Palm Beach ArtsPaper). As a soloist, she has notably performed with the Saint-Pierre Fusterie Orchestra (Switzerland), the Sinfonietta de Genève (Switzerland), the Mission Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Musicfor America String Orchestra (USA), the Gaillard Orchestra (France)…
She shares her passion and knowledge by being active in pedagogy, especially in the most disadvantaged countries. She teached in several institutions and gave masterclasses around the world, notably in the NEOJIBA program in Brazil, in the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine, and several schools and educational projects in the USA and in Panama. Through the international organization Musicfor, she devotes much of her musical activity to the humanitairan field, believing to give children the opportunity to approach music and broaden their perception and perspective on life. Thus, she devotes a large part of her musical activity to the development and support in the most disadvantaged regions of the world (Mozambique, Haiti, Angola and South Africa) by building music schools and sustaining Musicfor International projects.
She currently plays a contemporary violin crafted by Charles Coquet (2023).
More: www.charlotteorcel.com
