Manuel Vioque-Judde has, for several years, established himself as one of the most captivating violists on the French and international musical scene. Recognized by his peers from a young age, he is the first French musician to be a double laureate of both the Primrose Competition (Los Angeles, 2014) and the Tertis Competition (Isle of Man, 2016).

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Invited by numerous orchestras around the world, he has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela), the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), the Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen (Germany), the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (United States), Camerata Nordica (Sweden), and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan).

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A sought-after chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Augustin Dumay, Jonathan Fournel, Ilya Gringolts, Gary Hoffman, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Liya Petrova, Gidon Kremer, Alexandre Kantorow, Aurélien Pascal, Christian Tetzlaff, and the Trio Wanderer.

 

He performs regularly in prestigious venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, Bozar in Brussels, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Seiji Ozawa Hall in Boston, and Symphony Hall in Osaka. He is also a frequent guest at major festivals such as Verbier, the Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo, the Festival International de La Roque d’Anthéron, the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and the Festival of Young European Soloists in Venezuela.

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For the 2025–2026 season, I will be the artist in residence at Le Havre City Hall Theatre, and will release a new album devoted to Dmitri Shostakovich’s music for viola, recorded with the Swedish orchestra Camerata Nordica and pianist Nathanaël Gouin (Mirare 2026).

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Manuel Vioque-Judde is a senior member of the Seiji Ozawa International Academy, an associate artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, a laureate soloist of the Banque Populaire Foundation, and an Adami Classical Revelation. Since 2018, he has served as artistic director of the Just Classik Festival in Troyes.

He performs on two violas crafted by German luthier Stephan von Baehr.