Marina Chiche

Marina Chiche is well known to the general public thanks to her nominations at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards and her recordings, and enjoys an international career as a violin soloist and chamber musician. With a Doctorate in Arts, four First Prizes from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, a Bachelor’s degree in Germanic literature and civilization and a Master’s degree in early music from Berlin’s UdK, she has charted a unique course as a performer, musicologist, lecturer, radio commentator, mediator and author. In addition to her concerts and recordings, she shares her passion for classical music at conferences at the Philharmonie de Paris, in seminars at Sciences Po, on France 3 television, on France Musique podcasts and France Inter radio columns, and in her book Musiciennes de légende, which sheds light on the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries (Éditions First / Radio France).

“My project for a residency at Villa Médicis lies at the crossroads of my activities as a violinist, musicologist and author. Following on from my latest book “Musiciennes de légende” and my three series of podcasts on France Musique, I want to exhume the Villa’s archives to bring back to light the female figures who have also made the Villa’s history, notably the winners of the Prix de Rome in composition, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, but also Hélène Fleury-Roy, Yvonne Desportes and Elsa Barraine. The challenge is to bring these figures to life in our collective imagination, in various forms (publications, conferences, concerts), to rethink the writing of history, change the way we look at things, multiply the supports for identification in a diversity of models and finally rebalance our musical Pantheon, which would be declined in masculine and feminine terms, by giving these female composers their rightful place.”