Marie-Josèphe Jude

Marie-Josèphe Jude was born in Nice in 1968 from a French father and a sino-Vietnamese mother. She started to learn piano and harp in her home city before joining the Conservatoire de Paris encouraged by G. Cziffra. She worked with Aldo Ciccolini (piano) and Jean Hubeau (chamber music) and was awarded a first prize in Piano and a concert licence in harp at the Ecole normale in Paris. She then entered the third cycle in Jean-Claude Pennetier’s class.

At that time, she regularly attended Maria Curcio-Diamand’s lessons in London. She was a finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition in 1989 and won the Victoire de la Musique in the category « New Talent » in 1995.

This is when her career developed internationally; she has appeared in halls and festivals all over the world : from Montpellier to bath, from the Roque d’Anthéron to Kuhmo, from Bagatelle to Locarno etc…

Marie-Josèphe Jude is a fine chamber musician who plays with Henri Demarquette and Xavier Phillips (cello), Philippe Graffin, Stéphanie-Marie Degand and Jean-Marc Phillips- Varjabédian (violin), Pascal Moraguès and Michel Portal (clarinet); Mireille Delunsch, Delphine Haidan… In 1997 she founded a piano duo with Jean-François Heisser but she also plays with Michel Béroff, Claire Désert, Elena Rozanova, Charles Heisser.

She has recorded many Cds for the label Lyrinx : Brahms, Mendelssohn, Jolivet (Diapason d’Or), Clara Schumann, Dutilleux-Ohana, Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel-Debussy with Michel Béroff; also a CD “Flute Transcriptions”, recorded with Raquele Magalhães for Nomad Music. In 2025 2 CDs will be released: one with Michel Béroff and one with the Quatuor Ellipsos.