Biography

Parisian violinist Solenn Séguillon began the 2011 season with a tour of China as soloist with the American Philharmonic Orchestra and returned to perform the Chausson Poème with the same orchestra in March. Solenn also appeared as soloist with the Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra in August. She has recently spent her summers performing in France on acclaimed concert tours with the Aleron Trio (www.alerontrio.com) and looks forward to their performances of the Beethoven Triple Concerto this season.

Solenn has perfomed solo and in chamber music in many concerts in Paris ( Sainte Croix cathedral, Richelieu Concert Hall at La Sorbonne, Paris Luxembourg Lutheran church ) and in several french summer festivals ( Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, Villeneuve-les-Avignon...). She also performed in many European festivals and master classes including the International Festival of the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia di Portogruaro with Pavel Vernikov, Master Class of Puigcerda with Eduard Wulfson, Master Class of “La Sorbonne” with Paul Kantor, and the International Master Class of Champs-sur-Marne with Hagaï Shaham. Solenn also attended the Zephyr Chamber Music Festival in Courmayeur, Italy. She returned to San Francisco to perform a trio concert on Old first Church’s Chamber Music Series with the director of Zephyr, Mack McCray, and cellist Anne Suda. Solenn also performed in a quartet with three members of the San Francisco Symphony for an event at Davies Symphony Hall “After hours.”

Solenn was the concertmaster of the Unesco Orchestra and a member of Donna Musica Orchestra, which gave performances in Paris, Nancy, Metz, and Orsay. She is a member of San Francisco’s Magik Magik Orchestra, a professional group founded to provide collaboration between classical artists and independent rock musicians. Recent concerts have teamed Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead, Chicago, Sting, Third Eye Blind, and Frederica Von Stadde with the orchestra.
After graduating from the Paris Regional National Conservatory, Solenn studied with Pavel Vernikov at la Scola Musica di Fiezole in Italy, with Igor Volochine, and with Eduard Wulfson, chair of the Stradivarius Society in Europe. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory as a student of Axel Strauss and is currently completing her master degree with the same teacher. She is the recipient of the Sergei Barsukov scholarship.