2027 Competition Jury Member
FRANCE
Born to a French father and a Chinese-Vietnamese mother, Marie-Josèphe Jude began her musical studies at the age of 5 at the Nice Conservatory, where she received dual training in piano and harp. A precocious artist, at the age of 13, she entered the Paris Conservatoire to study piano in the class of Aldo Ciccolini. After winning first prizes in piano and chamber music and obtaining a concert degree in harp from the École Normale de Musique de Paris, she went to London to study with Maria Curcio, a great teacher and disciple of Arthur Schnabel.
Long a dual instrumentalist, Ms. Jude chose to focus on the piano and won the Clara Haskil International Competition in Vevey in 1989, and was named Instrumental Soloist Revelation at the Victoires de la Musique awards in 1995. Her career as a soloist has taken her to concert halls and festivals around the world, from Montpellier to Bath, La Roque d'Anthéron to Kuhmo, Bagatelle to Locarno.
An accomplished chamber musician, she shared the stage for many years with Laurent Korcia and Michel Portal, and regularly performs with Jean-Marc Phillips, Marc Coppey, Philippe Graffin, Gary Hoffmann, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Delphine Haidan, and others. She has also player virtually the entire repertoire for two pianos and four hands, accompanied by Jean-François Heisser, Brigitte Engerer, Claire Désert, her son Charles Heisser, and for several years now has formed a duo with her husband Michel Béroff.
Passionate about contemporary music since her encounter with Maurice Ohana, Ms. Jude has often been called upon for premieres: most recently, in 2024, she presented premieres of Seventh Avenue by Christian Lauba and Omar Yagoubi's Second Concerto with the Douai Orchestra conducted by Arie van Beek.
Her discography is mainly devoted to the works of Brahms, but she has also recorded Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dutilleux, Ohana, Berg, Clara Schumann, and others. In 2025, two albums were released: Symphonic Stories with the Ellipsos Quartet (Mirare) and Messiaen’s Visions de l'Amen, for two pianos, with Michel Béroff (Scalamusic).
Marie-Josèphe Jude has always devoted a large part of her career to pedagogy; after teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, she was appointed to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in 2016. President and artistic director of the Académie Internationale d'été de Nice since 2017, Ms. Jude was awarded the medal of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in July 2021 and Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2024.