Adèle Ginestet, viola

Adèle Ginestet is a French violist, born in Rodez in 1998. She began learning music by taking horn lessons with her father. At the age of 9, she discovered the viola and began her training in Rodez and Toulouse. In 2016, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Jean Sulem. During her studies in Paris, Adèle also spent some time at the Cleveland Institute of Music, in the class of Jeffrey Irvine. In 2020-21, she continued her training with Roland Glassl at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 2021, she began a specialized soloist master’s degree at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with Tatjana Masurenko.

Adèle is a laureate of the Fondation Safran and the Académie Ravel. She has been selected to take part in academies in Europe (Villecroze, triple viola master class in Blonay) and has benefited from the guidance of major artists such as Nobuko Imai, Veronika Hagen, Lawrence Power and Veit Hertenstein.

In 2023, she concluded her studies in Lausanne with a solo concert with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, performing Martinů’s Rhapsodie-Concerto. She also recorded her first album, “ROMANCES”, thanks to a collaboration with the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne and the Claves Records label.

As a chamber musician, she has been invited to perform at numerous festivals such as the Zermatt Music Festival (CH), the Berner Seefestspiele (CH), the Jeudis Musicaux de Royan (FR), Août Musical de Deauville (FR), Les Rencontres de Calenzana (Corsica), Brussels Muzieque (BE), and the MuCH Festival at Flagey (BE).

She has had the opportunity to share the stage with artists such as Augustin Dumay, François Salque, the Quatuor Hanson and the Schumann Quartett.

Passionate about orchestral music, Adèle has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Opéra national de Paris. She was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester from 2019 to 2021, under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt and Jonathan Nott.

She also likes to perform in unusual places for audiences with limited access to music, such as children’s hospitals and retirement homes.

Adèle Ginestet has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel since 2023, in Miguel da Silva’s class.

Last updated: 13 February 2026