Viola – Doric Quartet
(France)
Born in France in 1988, Hélène Clément has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls.
She has performed at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, as well as in many other European venues.
Her chamber music partners include Nicolas Altstaedt, Jonathan Biss, Brett Dean, Richard Goode, Alina Ibragimova, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mitsuko Uchida and Peter Wispelwey, as well as the Brentano String Quartet and the Nash Ensemble.
Since September 2013, she has been the violist with the Doric String Quartet. Highlights include recitals at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Frankfurt’sAlte Oper, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle and De Singel as well as regular performances at the Wigmore Hall and numerous festivals including Aldeburgh, Carinthischer Sommer, Delft, Edinbrugh, Grafenegg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musica Viva Sydney, Risør, Schwetzinger and West Cork Festivals. The quartet has also toured Japan, Israel, Australia, America and New Zealand.
Since 2010, the quartet has been recording exclusively for Chandos Records, notably works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Britten.
Hélène Clément is a regular guest at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival in America and at Prussia Cove in England.
She teaches viola and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She plays Benjamin Britten’s viola, made by Guissani in 1843 and generously loaned by the Britten-Pears Foundation.
