Here is a musician whose intelligence shapes a luminous, interior and deeply sincere interpretation. The emotion emanating from the text flows naturally through her sensitivity to reach our own hearts.
Jérôme Pernoo
Cellist
Biography
Mathilde was born in Le Mans (France) in 2001 into a family of musicians. From an early age, the cello naturally – and somewhat surprisingly – found its way into her life: at just three years old, she attended a performance of a Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach and chose the instrument as her lifelong companion.
She received complete training as a modern cellist, first studying with Marie-Thérèse Grisenti in Cachan, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where she obtained her DNSPM in Raphaël Pidoux’s class. She has also benefited from the guidance of Sol Gabetta, Ophélie Gaillard, Maximilian Hornung, Ivan Monighetti, Peter Bruns and Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
In 2025, she graduated with a Master’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, where she studied with Prof. Rafael Rosenfeld and Guillermo Pastrana.
She studied baroque cello with Pauline Collignon in Pantin, followed by Petr Skalka in Basel, and has complemented this training with an in-depth exploration of historically informed performance practices and traditional musics. A graduate of the Sorbonne with a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology, she has studied baroque dance and organ, and has been exploring Indonesian gamelan since 2021. These experiences have shaped a holistic musical approach, attentive to style, rhetoric, and the meaning of musical discourse.
Passionate about music in all its forms, Mathilde extends her artistic world beyond the classical repertoire. She explores contemporary music through collaborations with composers such as Jörg Widmann, Roland Moser, Thierry Escaich, Eric Lebrun, Jason Meyer, Christine Jeandroz – with whom she took part in the recording of the album Visions in 2017 – and Ivane Béatrice Bellocq.
Highlights
A laureate of several international competitions, she was notably a semi-finalist in the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, in both the baroque and modern cello categories, as well as in the International Cello Competition of Bratislava (2024). Her career reflects a vision of the performer as a complete artist, for whom modern and baroque cello practices engage in a dialogue, mutually enriching one another.
She made her solo debut with the Kammerorchester Basel in June 2025, performing Joseph Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto, and with the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine in June 2026, performing Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso at La Seine Musicale in Paris.
Her debut album, Chimères, recorded with pianist Alessandro Tardino and released in 2025 by KNS Classical, was featured on the programme Générations France Musique, le Live, hosted by Clément Rochefort.
From the 2026–27 academic year
Mathilde is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Baroque Cello in the class of Kristin von der Goltz at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, as well as an Artist Diploma at the Pernoo School of Musical Performance, where she studies with Jérôme Pernoo. A member of the Schubert cohort of the Académie Jaroussky, where she has notably worked with Anne Gastinel, she founded the Duo Maelström with pianist Kim Bernard. The duo has received further guidance from Cédric Tiberghien, Tanguy de Williencourt and Nemanja Radulovic, and regularly performs in Paris and throughout the region.
She plays a magnificent 1731 Paolo Antonio Testore cello, generously loaned by an anonymous patron.