This Franco-Armenian violinist has made a name for herself both on the international baroque stage and alongside many prestigious orchestras. Her insatiable curiosity, nourished by her musicological research, has opened the way to a new dimension of performance and makes her a musician of unrivalled generosity. At ease as much with a modern violin as with a gut-string instrument, Chouchane Siranossian can rightly be proud of a unique career path. Born in Lyon in 1984, Chouchane wastaught by maestro Tibor Varga in Sion (Ecole supérieure de cordes) until 1999. Accepted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon the following year in the class of Pavel Vernikov, she joined up with Zakhar Bron at the Zurich Musikhochschule, where in 2007 she obtained her degree as a soloist with the highest honours. Soon after she was appointed first solo violin at the St Gallen Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), a position she held until the end of the 2009 season. That same year, her meeting with Reinhard Goebel incited her to devote herself to studying early music with him at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Chouchane Siranossian performs regularly as a soloist with various orchestras, playing both a modern and a baroque violin. She has worked with Bertrand Chamayou, Michel Béroff, Daniel Ottensamer, Thomas Demenga and Christoph Prégardien, and has performed early music pieces alongside Jos van Immerseel, Andrea Marcon, Maurice Steger, René Jacobs and others. She is the founder of the ensemble Les Racines du Temps and the solo violinist of Ensemble Esperanza (Liechtenstein). Exploring a vast repertoire, she accords great importance to rediscovering and recording little-known works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while regularly contributing to the creation of new works. A recording of Mendelssohn’s Octetand Concerto with Anima Eterna, as well as a recording of concertos by Tartini conducted by Andrea Marcon were moreover released by Alpha in 2017. It all adds up to a unique career path that has been highly acclaimed by the critics. Chouchane Siranossian is a radiant violinist with an infectious joie de vivre and appeal,who divides her time between mountaineering and the modern and baroque violin,activities in which she effortlessly scales the highest peaks.

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