Biography

An internationally renowned classical musician, Adélaïde Ferrière has already performed in more than thirty countries around the world, as well as at exceptional events such as the prestigious Nobel Prize banquet at Stockholm City Hall, featuring a world premiere by Jacob Mühlrad, and the 2026 Concert de Paris, broadcasting live from the Champ-de-Mars and the Eiffel Tower.

In 2017, she was named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 24th Victoires de la Musique Classique awards, becoming the first percussionist to be honoured at the ceremony. In 2022, she was named one of Le Monde journal’s “Promises” and in 2024, she took part in Deutsche Grammophon’s Rising Stars series and recorded two singles for the Musical Moments collection.

She was then selected for the 2025–2027 programme of “Génération Spedidam Classique et Contemporain”. In 2026, the percussionist was named among the “200 young leaders of tomorrow” by the newspaper Le Figaro and was subsequently crowned “Instrumental Soloist” at the 33rd Victoires de la Musique Classique.

She has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Real Filharmonia de Galicia, the Latvian Chamber Orchestra, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and under the baton of Daniel Harding, Matthias Pintscher, Sir George Benjamin, Holly Choe, Adrian Prabava, Adrien Perruchon, Joseph Bastian and Gergely Madaras, amongst others. In 2022, she was an associate artist with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, and in 2024 with the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne.

We find her appearing on renowned venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Radio France Auditorium, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Comédie Française, the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Argentina in Roma, the Seine Musicale,  the Snow Concert Hall in Canberra, the Atatürk Opera Hall in Istanbul, the Brno Philharmonic, the Greek National Opera, the Rainier III Auditorium in Monaco, the Theatre of Epidaurus, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Festival Présences, Un Violon sur le Sable, the Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, the Festival d’Automne, the Festival de Pâques, the Festival Berlioz, the Festival Ravel, the Filarmonica Romana Season, MitoSettembreMusica Festival…

Deeply committed to the contemporary repertoire, the musician has taken part in numerous world premieres and worked with composers of all generations, including Georges Aperghis, Noriko Baba, Philippe Hurel, Martin Matalon, Camille Pépin, Bastien David, Mikaël Karlsson, François Meïmoun, and many others.

The percussionist is also involved in numerous multidisciplinary projects and has collaborated with the Opéra National de Paris and the choreographer Alexander Ekman on the staging of the ballet Play,  with the Comédie Française on the production of  Electre/Oreste directed by Ivo Van Hove, with the Fondation Louis Vuitton for the Calder exhibition, as part of the À l’aventure cinema programme at the Centre Georges Pompidou, with the Compagnie Arc-en-Cirque, the Collectif Scale, the dancer Élodie Sicard and the lighting designer Vivian Daval.

Adélaïde studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, which she joined at the age of 15 and where she was awarded her Master’s degree with distinction in 2017, and also at the Royal College of Music in London.

Her debut album, Contemporary, was released by the Evidence Classics label in 2020 and received critical acclaim (Le choix de France Musique, Joker Crescendo Découverte, Le Monde’s Sélection,  Le Figaro’s Sélection, and 4 **** in BBC Music Magazine). She has also recorded for the labels Mirare (Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Étoiles), B records (Xenakis Trio Collection), Salzburger Festspiele (Renaud Capuçon & friends), Sony Classical (New York, Thibault Cauvin) and Présences Compositrices (Aether by Camille Pépin).

Adélaïde Ferrière is a Yamaha and Kolberg Artist. She is supported by Adami, Spedidam, the Fondation Safran pour la musique, the Swiss Engelberts Foundation for the Arts and Culture, and the Fondation Singer-Polignac, where she has been in residence with the Trio Xenakis, an associate artist since 2025.