Lorraine Campet

An artist with an atypical career path, Lorraine Campet is recognized as one of the most talented double bassists of her generation. A passionate musician, she thrives just as much in chamber music as she does at the heart of an orchestra, or in passing on her passion for the violin and the double bass. She has performed alongside artists such as Barbara Hannigan, Renaud Capuçon, the Trio Wanderer, Nathanaël Gouin, Leonidas Kavakos, Alexandre Kantorow, the Quatuor Modigliani, François Salque and Astrig Siranossian. She is a member of the Smoking Joséphine string quintet alongside Geneviève Laurenceau, Olivia Hughes, Marie Chilemme and Hermine Horiot. As a violinist she was also a member of the Confluence Quartet, with whom she won the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2019. She won her first position as co-soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the age of 17. She is now Super Soloist at the Paris Opera and is regularly invited to play with MusicAeterna and Utopia conducted by Teodor Currentzis, as well as with the LSO and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. She plays an exceptional double bass by Paulo-Antonio and Pietro-Antonio Testore on loan from Xavier and Joséphine Moreno and a violin by Auguste S.P. Bernardel (father) on loan from Emmanuel Jaeger. In 2025, she won the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards in the Instrumental Soloist Revelation category.