Biography
France's Chouchane Siranossian stands among the foremost interpreters of Baroque violin and directs the Ensemble Esperanza while also presenting standard violin repertory through a perspective shaped by her Baroque training. Born in Lyon on July 18, 1984, she spent her childhood an hour away in the town of Romans. Her father, a conductor renowned for his expertise in traditional Armenian music, surrounded her with violin sound from infancy onward. She trained with Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland, and at age fifteen she enrolled at the Conservatoire in Lyon (CNSM), where Pavel Vernikov served as her principal instructor. Between 2002 and 2007 she continued at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under Zakhar Bron, receiving a soloist's diploma with highest honors. She launched her professional path as concertmaster of Switzerland's Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, yet an encounter with Baroque violinist Reinhard Goebel prompted a decisive shift; she resigned that post and studied with him at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2010 to 2013. During those years she appeared alongside Goebel on Baroque violin, and in 2014 she issued her first recording, Time Reflexion, on the Oehms Classics label, featuring both Baroque and modern works. She subsequently assumed leadership of the Ensemble Esperanza in Liechtenstein, an ensemble with which she has made numerous recordings, and she established the group Les Racines du Temps. In the historical-performance sphere she has worked with keyboardist Jos van Immerseel, viola da gamba player Christophe Coin, and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, among others. As a soloist she has appeared with conventional orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, as well as with period-instrument ensembles including Collegium 1704, Les Musiciens du Louvre, and Concerto Köln. Siranossian performs music from every era, frequently employing gut strings on her instruments yet sometimes turning to a modern violin. She actively champions new music and has partnered with composers Daniel Schnyder, Bechara El-Khoury, and Eric Tanguy. Under contract with the Alpha label, she released the Baroque recital L'Ange & Le Diable in 2016 together with Jos van Immerseel; subsequent Alpha projects encompassed repertory as diverse as pieces by Tartini and Sigmund Romberg. In 2021 she moved to the Claves label for an album devoted to Antoine Reicha's Symphonies Concertantes. She returned to Alpha in 2023 for the Baroque virtuoso program Duello d'Archi a Venezia, recorded with Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra.
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