- Piano
- nationality
- France
Born in Saint-Nazaire, Karine Sélo started playing the piano at the age of 7. First of all, she studied at the École Nationale de Musique in her hometown and obtained a DEM with distinction. She then continued her studies at the Conservatoires of Versailles, Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt where she obtained several first prizes for piano and chamber music. Among others, she has worked with Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Paul Meyer and Eric Le Sage in various chamber music groups.
In 2002, she met Jérôme Pernoo: it was the beginning of a long musical partnership and she first became his accompanist at the Royal College of Music in London and since September 2007 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. She has also worked with Gary Hoffman, Claudio Bohorquez, Philippe Muller, Michel Michalkakos, François Salque, Pierre-Olivier Queyras, Young- Chang Cho, Julien Beaudiment, Marc Danel… at master classes and international academies (Kronberg Academy, Cagliari Academy, Kuhmo festival, Musicalp, International Summer Academy PragWienBudapest...) and has been invited to accompany instrumentalists in international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky Competitions, the Feuerman in Berlin, the Young Concert Artists, the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, Isang Yun in Korea, Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, as well as for the competitions for the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris and the Conservatoire du 5ème arrondissement in Paris since 2005.
A chamber music enthusiast, Karine performs in various groups, from duos to quintets and participates in many festivals: Les Vacances de Monsieur Haydn in La Roche-Posay, Les Musicales de Blanchardeau, International Summer Academy PragWienBudapest in Austria, International Spring Festival at Téatru Manoel in Malta, Festival de Saint-Hilaire Des Noyres, Musique en Pays de Serres, À Portée de Mains in Autun, Les Musicales du Parc de Wesserling, Cordes aux Vents, Musique en Pays de Noailles... She also performs at the Moulin d'Andé, at the Theatre de l'Île Saint-Louis in Paris, the Château de Ratilly and is a regular guest of the Ensemble Reza in the UK. She has partnered musicians such as Jérome Pernoo, Claudio Bohorquez, Michel Lethiec, Felix Renggli, Gérard Poulet, the baritones Yann Toussaint and Julien Clément, Claire Thion of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, the Elixir Trio… and she founded the Trio Impromptu with Anais Perrin and Lucile Perrin.
She has featured on the radio, particularly in the France Musique programmes Un Mardi Idéal, Plaisirs d'Amours, Dans la Cour des Grands, Les Apprentis du Bien Nourri.
Her activities bring her into the company of today's composers: in March 2009, she performed the Quintet for piano and strings by Jérôme Ducros, in 2011 she wrote the reduction for cello and piano of the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Guillaume Concesson for Éditions Billaudot and in 2013 she was responsible for the artistic direction of the En Aparte CD of the works of Jérôme Ducros for Universal Music.