Muriel Chemin’s motto: “Being a musician is the key to eternity.”

Muriel Chemin began her musical studies at the age of five, under the guidance of Jean and Marguerite
Manuel. She obtained her Diplôme d’exécution and Licence de Concert from the Ecole
Normale de Musique de Paris with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi. She perfected her studies
in Italy with Maria Tipo (later becoming her assistant), then in Switzerland at the
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève where she graduated, being awarded the Premier Prix
de Virtuosité.
She held several concerts in Paris at the Salle Gaveau and Théâtre de Paris and in other cities
in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom (with the Southbank
Sinfonia), Greece (with the Quatuor Psophos), Turkey, Romania, Russia, Poland, Chile (with
the Orquesta Clásica Universidad de Santiago) and the United States, where she performed
as a soloist, in piano duets, in chamber music groups and with the orchestra, under the
guidance of renowned conductors like Árpád Gérecz, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli,
Nicolas Rauss, Daniel Barda, David del Pino Klinge, Simon Over, Maurizio Dini Ciacci,
Nicolas Krauze.
She took part in many Beethoven and Mozart concerts, composers to whom she dedicated
most of her career. She won the Concours International Hennessy-Mozart in Paris, where she
was enthusiastically applauded by the jury and in particular, by the president Paul
Badura-Skoda. Moreover, the great Italian orchestra conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini,
expressed heart-felt admiration after hearing her play the last three Beethoven sonatas in
1998.
In Italy she was guest pianist at prestigious musical institutions such as the Orchestra
Regionale Toscana, the Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, the Auditorium Verdi of Milan in duet
with French cellist Alain Meunier. She recorded several CDs for the Solstice record company.
In 2012, on the occasion of Claude Debussy’s 150th birth anniversary, she performed in
several concerts with his 12 studies.
She lives in Venice, where she is piano professor at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto
Marcello since 2014. Many of her students were awarded in international competitions.
Her Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and the complete piano Sonatas recorded for Odradek,
received many astonishing reviews.
She is regularly invited as a jury member in international piano competitions.