Viola – ex Doric Quartet
(France)
Born in France in 1988, Hélène Clément has performed in many world-renowned concert halls, including London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
She has collaborated with musicians such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Jonathan Biss, Richard Goode, Alina Ibragimova, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mitsuko Uchida, as well as the Brentano Quartet and the Nash Ensemble.
From 2013 to 2024, she was the violist of the Doric String Quartet, with which she performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the De Singel in Antwerp, as well as at numerous festivals (Aldeburgh, Delft, Edinburgh, Risør, Schw etzinger, etc.). The quartet has also toured in Japan, Israel, Australia, America and New Zealand.
Hélène Clément is regularly invited to the Marlboro Music Festival and Prussia Cove. She teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London and plays on Benjamin Britten’s viola, made by Guissani in 1843, loaned by Fondation Britten-Pears.
