Marina Chiche

Marina Chiche is known to the general public through her nominations for the Victoires de la Musique Classique and her recordings. She has 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 the UdK in Berlin, she has developed a unique career as a performer, musicologist, lecturer, radio host, mediator and author.
In addition to her concerts and recordings, she shares her passion for classical music in conferences at the Philharmonie de Paris, in seminars at Sciences Po, on TV on France 3, on the radio in podcasts on France Musique and chronicles on France Inter, 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 my residency at Villa Medici is at the crossroads of my activities as a violinist, musicologist and author. In line with my last book “Musiciennes de légende” and my three series of podcasts on France Musique, I wish to exhume the Villa’s archives to bring back to light the female figures who also made the history of the Villa, 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, to change the way we look at things, to multiply the supports of identification in a diversity of models and finally to rebalance our musical Pantheon, which would be declined in masculine and feminine forms, by giving back their rightful place to these women composers.”

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