Born in 1982, Lise Berthaud studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the classes of Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé. At the age of 18, she won the Concours Européen des Jeunes Interprètes. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Music Competition.
Lise performs extensively on the international circuit, both as a soloist and a chamber musician, and has been a guest at venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Munich Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Bozar in Brussels, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Dresden Festival, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André, the Tanglewood Festival, the BBC Proms, among many other festivals. She is a guest soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Musiciens du Louvre, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed under the baton of Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, Leonard Slatkin, Fabien Gabel, Paul Mc Creesh, Marc Minkowski, François Leleux and Emmanuel Krivine.
From 2013 to 2015, Lise Berthaud was part of the highly prestigious BBC New Generation Artist programme, which enabled her to perform with all the BBC orchestras and make numerous solo and chamber music recordings for the BBC. In September 2014, she made her solo debut at the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony conducted by Andrew Litton.
After taking part in numerous recordings, including the complete piano music of Schumann and Fauré by Eric Le Sage for Alpha, she recorded her first recital disc for Aparté with pianist Adam Laloum, which was released in 2013. The reviews were unanimous: Diapason d’or, Resmusica key, Radio Classique selection, France Inter selection. In October 2013, Leonard Slatkin chose her to perform and record Harold en Italie for Naxos with the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of a complete Berlioz recording. In 2018, alongside her friends Pierre Fouchenneret, Eric Le Sage, François Salque and other musicians, she is taking part in the recording of Brahms’ complete chamber music.
Lise has performed with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Eric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Louis Lortie, Emmanuel Pahud, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Gordan Nikollich, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Daishin Kashimoto, the Ebène, Modigliani and Armida Quartets. She is a co-founding member of the Strada Quartet (with Sarah Nemtanu, Pierre Fouchenneret and François Salque). Lise plays a 1660 viola by Antonio Casini, generously donated by Bernard Magrez.
