Clémence de Forceville won her first international prizes at the age of 9 and went to study violin at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Olivier Charlier and then perfected her skills in Germany with Antje Weithaas and Mihaela Martin. 

Selected in international masterclasses such as Ravinia Stean’s Music Institute, IMS Prussia Cove or Ozawa Academy, she receives the advice of great masters such as Daniel Barenboim, Andràs Schiff, Alfred Brendel, Pamela Frank, Zakhar Bron.

Prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, she collaborates as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of New Europe, the Portugese Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris or the Chamber Orchestra of Catalonia. 

She has been invited to perform at numerous festivals in France and abroad such as Les Folles Journées, La Roque d’Anthéron, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Sonoro Festival, Verbier Festival, Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims.

Passionately invested in the chamber music repertoire, she played as first violin of the Hieronymus String Quartet for three years, then with the Trio Sōra with whom she recorded the six great Beethoven Trios for a triple album released by the Naïve label. Acclaimed by international critics, the album also received a Choc Classica of the year 2021.

Clémence de Forceville has been first concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre National de Lille. She has distinguished herself in concerts by playing/conducting in repertoires ranging from Beethoven to Stravinsky, notably at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées where she received critical acclaim. 

From 2023 she is the first concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Since 2021 she has been teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris as an assistant in Philippe Graffin’s class.

Thanks to the generous support of the Boubo-Music Foundation, Clémence plays a violin by Lorenzo Storioni dating from 1777.