Fabienne Voisin* illustrates music’s ability to transcend borders and cultures. Through an intercontinental career path, she has built a career dedicated to making music accessible to all, by placing it at the heart of territories and social and educational dynamics.
After a double degree in piano (Paris, Lyon) and management (EAC), from the very start of her career, she has made music a lever for connection, whether at MIDEM or through the production of several festivals (280 concerts per season), bringing audiences, artists and works closer together.
In Africa, she creates large-scale educational initiatives where music is a vehicle for learning and peace. It is there that she reinforces her vision of universal music as a source of emancipation and dialogue with all cultural sensibilities.
At the helm of the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France (ONDIF) for 11 years, she negotiated the parisian regional orchestra’s residency at the Philharmonie de Paris, strengthening its territorial impact and its commitment to artistic and cultural education, making it one of Europe’s leading orchestras. It is multiplying innovative initiatives conducive to the development of its own resources, including the creation of a recording studio within the Orchestra and the integration and development of a fleet of over 3,000 instruments. It deploys a large number of collaborations and entertaining initiatives that make classical music a part of people’s everyday lives.
She deploys a large number of collaborations and entertaining initiatives that bring classical music into the daily lives of target audiences, affirming the orchestra’s role as a vector for emancipation, openness and social cohesion.
Involved in the Orchestras and Operas Employers’ Union “Les forces Musicales”, she held the presidency for 4 years and sat at national negotiating tables.
In 2022, she joined the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and its artistic director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sealing a shared vision of music as a universal language, a bridge between centuries and communities, open and accessible to all, contributing to an inclusive and humanistic ideal of society.
For her, music is not just an art, but a powerful lever for giving meaning, linking worlds and rekindling the wonder of the present. It is the soul of civilizations, carrying their memories, illuminating their present and tracing the paths of their future.
*Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
