Céleste Klingelschmitt

Currently in the final year of her master’s degree at the Paris Conservatory in the class of Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Céleste flourishes both in chamber music and as a soloist or orchestral musician.
From the age of 11, she performed as a soloist with the Collegium Musicum in Mulhouse and then with the Philharmonisches Orchester Riehen in Dvorak’s concerto and in Mozart’s Symphonie Concertante with Héloïse Houzé in April 2022. More recently, she performed Mozart’s 5th concerto with the Colonne Orchestra under the direction of Christophe Coin and the Brahms concerto with the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas.
In 2020, she founded the Mylos trio with pianist Tom Carré and cellist Thomas Martin, they benefit from the advice of Claire Désert and François Salque. Céleste also performs alongside Sergey Ostrovsky and Noémie Bialobroda of the Aviv Quartet at the Stadtcasino in Basel or with Philippe Bernold in Mozart’s flute quartets. Last summer, she participated in the Seiji Ozawa International Academy.
In 2021, she is concertmaster of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra under the direction of James Gaffigan and is an academician of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2022-2023 season.
Céleste has also devoted herself for several years to the practice on historical instruments, which she discovered when she entered the CNSMDP. She has played under the direction of Ton Koopman, John Butt, and in March 2023, as a soloist in Bach’s double concerto with Stéphanie-Marie Degand and the Diane Française at the Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.