Born in 1998, Adèle Ginestet is a french violist. She began her musical career taking french horn lessons with her father in her home town of Rodez in Aveyron. At the age of 9, she discovered the viola and pursued quickly her training by entering the Toulouse Conservatoire at the age of 15 in Louis Merlet’s class. In 2016, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Jean Sulem, Marc Desmons and Odile Auboin. During her training in Paris, Adèle studied abroad, at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the United States with the pedagogue Jeffrey Irvine. She took part in an intensive string quartet program led by the Cavani String Quartet, and benefited from master classes with the Emerson String Quartet and the Danish String Quartet. In 2020-2021, she studied with Roland Glassl at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich while completing her studies at the CNSM in Paris. In September 2021, she joined the class of Tatjana Masurenko and Ronen Shifron at the Haute école de Musique in Sion as a Master Soloist. She made her debut as soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne with Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto in June 2023, under the direction of Nicolas Chalvin.
Adèle has most recently been selected to join the class of the violist Miguel Da Silva at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel from September 2023.
A keen orchestral musician, she has been selected to take part in the 2019 and 2020 seasons of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and Jonathan Nott. She performed in halls such as the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In France, Adèle is regularly invited to play with major orchestras such as the Opéra National de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
As a chamber musician, she has been invited to several festivals in France (festival musiques rive gauche, Musique au Palais, Mille Sources, Nice classic live festival, Les Musicales de la vallée aux loups, Les Mélusicales…) in various chamber music ensembles, and has already shared the stage with musicians such as Stéphanie Marie-Degand, Philippe Graffin and François Salque. In 2021, she was invited to take part in a chamber music residency at Lommoye under the direction of Renaud Capuçon.
She has benefited from the tuition of Gérard Caussé, Nobuko Imai, Miguel Da Silva, Lawrence Power, Ori Kam, at the Villecroze music academy, the Maurice Ravel international music academy, the Hindemith Foundation Hindemith in Blonay, Switzerland, among others.
Adèle is supported by ADAMI in 2021 and by the Fondation Safran pour la Musique from July 2022.