BMF Young Artist: Constant Clermont

Constant Clermont is a French violinist who currently studies at CNSM de Paris with Olivier Charlier and privately with Julien Szulman. In his teenage years, he has studied in Cleveland with professor Isabel Trautwein and was associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. During his studies in 2020, he founded Quatuor Mirages which was the youngest resident in Fondation Singer-Polignac. They participated in Verbier Festival Academy, Aix en Provence Academy and studied with teachers such as Mathieu Herzog, Gábor Takács-Nagy and members of the Ebene, Belcea, Berg quartets. At the end of 2023, the quartet stopped its activities and Constant decided to focus more on his own career. In recent months, he’s had the great privilege to receive advice from great artists such as Noah Bendix-Balgley, Petteri Iivonen, Rainer Küchl. He performed for festivals and organisations such as Festival des Arcs, Les Concerts de Poches, La Chaise Dieu, Festival d’Auvers sur Oise along David Grimal, Augustin Dumay, Michel Dalberto, Emmanuel Rossfelder, Sivan Magen, Meesun Hong Coleman, and many others. For more than a year, Constant has taken part in chamber music sessions organized by Musethica and has performed in Barcelona's L'Auditori and in Bonn’s Beethoven Fest. He has performed many times as a guest with Camerata Bern in places such as Gstaad Festival and will tour with the ensemble in May 2025.