« 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
Biographie
Biographie
Mathilde was born in Le Mans 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 comprehensive 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 completed a Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, studying with Rafael Rosenfeld and Guillermo Pastrana.
She studied baroque cello with Pauline Collignon in Pantin, then with Petr Skalka in Basel, complementing this training with an in-depth exploration of historically informed performance practices and traditional musics. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from the Sorbonne, and has studied baroque dance and organ, before turning to Indonesian gamelan in 2021. These experiences have shaped a broad musical approach, attentive to style, rhetoric and the meaning of musical discourse.
Passionate about music in all its forms, Mathilde extends her musical world beyond the classical repertoire. She explores contemporary music through collaborations with composers including 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.
Supported by the Cantilena Foundation, Mathilde makes her solo debut with the Kammerorchester Basel in June 2025, in Haydn's Concerto in C major.
She plays on a cello by Paolo Antonio Testore from 1731, generously loaned by an anonymous patron.
Lauréate de plusieurs concours internationaux, elle est notamment demi-finaliste du Concours International Bach de Leipzig en violoncelle baroque et moderne, ainsi que du Concours International de Bratislava (2024). Son parcours reflète une conception de l’interprète comme un artiste complet, pour qui les pratiques du violoncelle moderne et du violoncelle baroque se répondent et s’enrichissent mutuellement.
Elle fait ses débuts en soliste avec le Kammerorchester Basel en juin 2025 dans le Concerto en do majeur de Joseph Haydn, et avec l'Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine en juin 2026 dans le Pezzo Capriccioso de Tchaïkovsky à la Seine Musicale (Paris).
A laureate of several international competitions, she was notably a semi-finalist in the International Bach Competition in Leipzig in both baroque and modern cello, 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.
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 also founded the Duo Maelström with pianist Kim Bernard. The duo has received further training from Cédric Tiberghien, Tanguy de Williencourt and Nemanja Radulovic, and regularly performs in Paris and throughout the surrounding region.
She plays a magnificent 1731 Paolo Antonio Testore cello, generously loaned by an anonymous patron.