Lise Berthaud
is unanimously praised as an outstanding rising figure on the music scene. She has performed in varied prestigious concert venues in Europe (Wigmore Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Pleyel, Festival de Montpellier-Radio France, Festival Berlioz de la Côte Saint-André, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Davos Festival, Moritzburg Festival, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Korlsholm Festival, Cork Festival, La Folle Journée Festival) with such artists as Renaud Capuçon, Eric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emmanuel Pahud, Adam Laloum, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Gordan Nikollich, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Ecker, Alina Ibragimova, Veronika Eberle, Christian Poltera, David Kadouch, Claire-Marie le Guay, Daishin Kashimoto, Quatuor Ebène, the Modigliani quartet.

Since September 2013, Lise has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme and is invited to perform with prestigious orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

In the 2013/14 season, she will play with Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and with Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestre de Lyonn who also chose her to play Berlioz’s Harold en Italie as part of their complete Berlioz cycle for Naxos.

As a soloist, Lise has also been invited to perform with the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sinfonia Varsovia, les Musiciens du Louvre, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sao Paulo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, and various orchestras in France, with conductors like Sakari Oramo, Leonard Slatkin, Emmanuel Krivine, Fabien Gabel, Paul Mc Creesh, Marc Minkowski.

Lise Berthaud was born in 1982 and started studying the violin at the age of 5. She studied with Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and was a prize winner of the European Young Instrumentalists Competition in 2000. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition. She was short listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2009 as “Révélation de l’Année” (Newcomer of the Year).

Adam Laloum
was born in Toulouse in 1987. He began studying the piano at the age of ten. In 1999 he entered the Conservatoire de Toulouse and from 2002 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), class of Michel Béroff. Adam took lessons in chamber performing and attended master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pascal Devoyon and Jean-Claude Pennetier. Adam received his diploma in Paris in 2006 and was admitted to the “3rd Perfectionnement” course at the Conservatoire de Lyon, class of in Géry Moutier.

Since October 2009 Adam has been a student at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik under Evgeny Korolyov who won the Clara Haskil Prize in 1977. In 2007 Adam appeared in a performing chamber concerts at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron and the Académie Maurice Ravel where he was awarded the Maurice Ravel Prize, which afforded him the opportunity to perform in a chamber music concert series.

Adam has performed at many prestigious festivals and concerts halls as soloist and chamber musician in France (the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the La Grange de Meslay festival, the L’Orangerie de Sceaux festival and L’Epau in Deauville), Switzerland (Théâtre de Vevey and the Salle Métropole in Lausanne) Jordan and Mexico. He has performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Sinfonietta de Lausanne under conductors such as Jesüs López-Cobos, Peter Csaba and Jean-Marc Grob.

Adam has received a number of scholarships including a grant from the Fondation de France in 2006, an ADAMI grant in 2006–2007 and a grant from the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire for 2007–2010. In September 2009 he won the first prize the audience award at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition.