Biography

French violinist Angélique Martinet is the winner of the Vatelot-Rampal Competition 2018 and the Marie Cantagrill International Competition in 2019 in her category. She performed as a soloist with the Young Symphonic Orchestra of Bordeaux under the baton of Roberto Gatto in 2022. In 2023, Angélique made her debut at the British Isles Music Festival. In the same year, she was selected to be part of the new Orchestra Academy S2 which included working with the National Orchestra of Lille and the orchestra Les Siècles throughout the 2023-2024 season. In 2024, Angélique performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and for the opening concert of the Festival Ravel, with the orchestra Les Siècles. She played in various summer academies such as the Academy International d’été de Nice, the Mozarteum Internationale Sommerakademie and the Wiener Meisterkurse.

Angélique is in her fourth year of studies in a Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, and is a Musicians’ Company Lambert Scholar. She is a student of Emily Sun and previously of Alexander Gilman. She was awarded her Diploma of Musical Studies at sixteen while she was in France, studying with François-Marie Drieux, Stéphane Rougier, Philippe Graffin and Stéphane Tran Ngoc. During her studies at the RCM, she had the chance to play and learn among great musicians such as Vasko Vasilev, Francesca Dego, Eszter Haffner and Szymon Krzeszowiec.

Angélique is a versatile musician: she played in the Céleste Quartet for two years and performed at the memorial concert of Joseph Horovitz and the Sacconi Quartet Festival. She has played in many orchestra projects in France and England with Arie Van Beek, Marc Minkowski, Renaud Capuçon, François Xavier Roth, Adrian Partington, Joanna Carneiro, Martyn Brabbins, Pierre Bleuse and Krzysztof Urbansky. Angélique often participates in recordings for film music and recorded in Angel Studio and Abbey Road Studios for her fellow students at the RCM.

Angélique  plays on her own instrument, a Jérémie Legrand violin of 2011.

Award: RCM Lambert Scholarship 2023