Clara Mesplé

Born in 1997, Clara Mesplé began the violin at the age of six and in 2006 entered the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Montpellier, in the classes of Anne Temperville and then Anne-Marie Regnault. At twelve she won first prize in her category at the Vatelot-Rampal Competition.

Admitted in 2014 to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in Marianne Piketty’s class, she earned her master’s degree unanimously with distinction, then continued her studies in Berlin with Peter Rainer at the Universität der Künste. She has also been taught by Krzysztof Węgrzyn, Michael Frischenschlager and Renaud Capuçon.

A member of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra in 2013 and 2014, then of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland in 2018, she plays with Les Forces Majeures, Ensemble Appassionato, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Orchestre Eroica Berlin and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

In chamber music she co-founded the Quatuor Confluence, unanimous first prize with the jury’s congratulations at the Philharmonie de Paris competition in 2016, and later the Quatuor Arlequin, third prize at the Anton Rubinstein International Chamber Music Competition in 2019. Winner of the Talents Classiques jury prize in 2019, she plays a violin by François Caussin dated 1885.