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What is your professional background? I was born in a family of musicians. My mother is a violinist and my father is a singer so I quite naturally started playing cello at the age of 5. But I didn't realize until later, when I was a teenager, how much music really meant to me. When I entered the class of the great pedagogues Pascale Michaca's & Xavier Gagnepain at the Boulogne Billancourt Conservatory, I was suddenly immersed in a new world where harmony and poetry reigned supreme; music became a refuge every moment of the day. I also got to know the members of the quartet there, and I quickly realized that this mix of friendship, high standards and musical emotions would become a major incentive for me. I am currently continuing my studies at the CNSMD in Lyon in Anne Gastinel & Edouard Sapey's Triomphe class.

Your house at Hogwarts? Ravenclaw (the only truly respectable house).

A work that moves you? Mahler's 2nd, *The Resurrection Symphony*, and its final chorus.

Your favorite book? Geluck's *Le Chat*, for his humor in hardened steel.

Your favorite city? Vienna, for its incomparable beauty and hectic life.

A vivid memory? Participating in concerts as a singer in the Choir of the Orchestre de Paris, while I was studying with Thomas Duran who is himself a cellist in the orchestra!

Your favorite movie? *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* (We-are-the-knights-who-say-NI).

Your favorite tree? Spruce.

Your hobbies? Video games, series, bikes and giant mikados.

What brings you together? Contradiction above all else, and love of food. And the quartet too.

A dream? To gain my weight in Schoko-Bons.

The artists who inspire you? Banksy, Ivry Gitlis, Joao Gilberto, Paul Klee.

Your favorite dish? Lasagna in all its forms.