The jury
Sylvie Villeger
Cordelia Palm
Super soloist, Orchestre National Avignon - Provence
France / Germany
Cordelia PALM was born in Tübingen, Germany, into a family of musicians. She began playing the violin at the age of 2, then the piano at 5 with her father, a musicologist and conductor. From the age of 6, she began performing on stage, playing violin and piano in France, Belgium and Germany. She continued her studies in Karlsruhe, where she joined the Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15. In 1975, first prize in the BDI competition enabled her to take part in a series of recordings and radio and TV broadcasts in Frankfurt and Baden-Baden, and to embark on a national tour. Two scholarships gave her access to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with the great violin pedagogue Yvan Galamian.
Alongside her position as super-solo violin soloist with the Orchestre d'Avignon, an orchestra she joined in 1982, she met a number of artists including O. Charlier, P. Fontanarosa, B. Rigutto, J.-C. Pennetier, J.-C. Malgloire, G. Hoffman, H. Demarquette, V. Mardirossian, F. Buffet-Arsenisevic.
She has performed Brahms's double concerto, Beethoven's triple concerto, Tchaikovsky's concerto, Vivaldi and Piazzolla's Seasons, Sarasate's Airs Bohémiens, Wieniawsky's legend, Saint-Saens's1st concerto, Vieuxtemps's 5th and Mendelssohn's concerto.
She gave 4 concerts in the United States at the end of 2019, including at New York's famous Carnegie Hall.
Keen to open herself up to new musical styles and repertoires, through friendly and artistic encounters, Cordelia has created the " Alcor " duo and the " Séraphin " trio, the "Cordalisa" trio featuring violin, harp and soprano, the "Amadéo" trio with Blandine Dumay and Philippe Barry, and participates in " Tango et Arpèges ", combining tango dance, violin and harp.
In the summer of 2021, she tackled a repertoire of film music in duet with Michel Chanard on piano and alternating organ.
The 2020-21 season opened with a tour in which she performed a series of Romances with the ONAP (Beethoven, Svensen, Sohy, which she recorded).
In 2022, she played Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, conducting the orchestra on her violin, and next autumn, still with the ONAP, she will perform 4 romances by Romantic composers on a regional tour.
In 2024, she performed Bach's complete Brandenburg Concertos at La Scala, and focuses her musical output on chamber music with her various ensembles.