Céleste Klingelschmitt is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she studies with Stéphanie-Marie Degand and Julien Szulman. She obtained her Master’s degree in Violin with highest honors in 2024.
She has recently performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Orchestre Colonne conducted by Christophe Coin, Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas, and will perform Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris in February 2026.
A passionate chamber musician, she performs with various ensembles, has studied with Claire Désert and François Salque, and has appeared on the radio programme “Générations France Musique” as part of a piano trio.
Alongside her studies of the modern violin, Céleste Klingelschmitt has devoted herself for several years to historically informed performance practice. She has worked under the direction of Ton Koopman and John Butt, and has performed as a soloist in Bach’s Double Concerto with Stéphanie-Marie Degand and La Diane Française.
In 2024, she began a Master’s degree in Baroque Violin with François Fernandez and has also studied the viola da gamba with Lucile Boulanger.
A laureate of the Fondation l’Or du Rhin, the Académie de Villecroze, the Schiermonnikoog Festival Violin Prize and the Fondation Safran, Céleste Klingelschmitt won second prize at the Leipzig Bach Competition in 2026.


