Olivia Hughes

Olivia Hughes is principal violin of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, artistic director of the Festival de Musique de Chambre d’Entrecasteaux, and a member of the Smoking Josephine quintet alongside Geneviève Laurenceau, Marie Chilemme, Hermine Horiot, and Lorraine Campet.

After studying at the CNSMD in Paris, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Hochschule in Basel, she spent thirteen years with the Ardeo String Quartet, winning multiple international prizes (Bordeaux, FNAPEC, Moscow, Borciani, etc.).

Deeply influenced by her studies with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and the numerous masterclasses she attended at IMS Prussia Cove with Steven Isserlis (UK), Olivia Hughes is first and foremost a chamber musician.

She holds the French national conservatory teaching diploma (certificate d’aptitude) and taught at the Créteil conservatory before spending a period with the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Since 2020, she has been regularly invited to perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.