Adèle Viret
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Adèle is a cellist and improviser born in 1999. Her eclectic career has seen the cello play an ever-changing role in a wide range of musical aesthetics. From an early age, Adèle studied classical cello at the Montreuil Conservatoire, and went on to perfect her skills at the Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Regional Conservatories. She was taught by Hélène Silici, Nadine Pierre and Mathieu Lejeune. She is currently studying for a master’s degree at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Didier Poskin’s class. At the same time, she is making a name for herself in the professional world, working on improvised music, jazz and world music
projects and performing alongside artists such as Magic Malik, Fabrizio Cassol, B.C. Manjunath, Isabel Sörling and Amir Elsaffar.
Lulled from an early age by the music of her father, a jazz double bassist, she developed a flair for improvisation and composition at a very early age. Her curiosity has led her to join and initiate projects mixing aesthetics and disciplines (dance, literature, theatre). In 2019, she created n’Être, a cello and dance duo whose music and choreography were composed jointly by the two artists. The same year she joined the Medinea network (Mediterranean Youth Orchestra), which brings together young artists from the
Mediterranean basin to create an original repertoire. Deeply influenced by the experience of intercultural creation, she set up her own Mosaïc Collective in the company of Bulgarian, French, Portuguese and Tunisian musicians, which gave its first concerts in Tunisia in September 2022. At the same time, Adèle took part in the Orchestre National de Jazz des Jeunes for the 2021-2022 season and joined the groups Abhra and Afriquatuors, whose respective albums were released in autumn 2022. She performs internationally, notably in the Netherlands with the Syrian singer Jawa Manla, in Portugal with the group Apophenia and Zé Almeida Analogic Quartet, and with the Belgian group Aka Moon for a memorable concert celebrating their 30-year career and the tour of the “Quality of Joy” album.
The year 2023 saw the start of his most personal projects, with the first concerts by his group Adèle Viret 4tet (Oscar Viret – trumpet, Wajdi Riahi – piano, Pierre Hurty – drums), which won the Jazz Migration award that same year, the revival of the Trium Viret family trio with Oscar Viret and Jean-Philippe Viret (double bass), and the creation of a piece for solo cello commissioned by the Ateliers du Violoncelle and premiered on 15 March at the Atelier du Plateau.