The French soprano and choral conductor, Catherine Roussot, studied first violn. She then discovered singing with Catherine Maerten, voice teacher at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne, and obtained her graduation diploma from the Conservatoire de Lyon in the class of Jean-Christophe Henry. She also pursued university studies and obtained a license in musicology at the l’Université Lumière Lyon 2, and a professional license in vocal and choral practices at the Université François Rabelais de Tours. In 2007, she entered C.N.S.M.D. (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse) de Lyon in choir direction in the class of Bernard Tétu, Nicole Corti and Karine Locatelli, and in 2010 obtained her Diplôme National Supérieur de Professionnel de la Musique, then her Master degree and her Diplôme de Deuxième Cycle Supérieur in 2012.
Catherine Roussot intervenes in several choirs of the Rhône-Alpes Region, as choir director or for vocal technique: Ensemble Vocal Nord Dauphiné à Bourgoin-Jallieu, Double dièse, Les Muses d’Arcadie, Le Chœur d’étudiants de l’Université Lyon III, La Pré-Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de St Marc à Lyon, Les Chœurs d’Enfants de Limonest.
Catherine Roussot currently works as a singing teacher at the École de Musique d’Irigny (69) as well as at the Petits Chanteurs de la Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Lyon and directs the adolescent choir and the vocal ensemble of the Centre de la Voix Rhône-Alpes. She is also assistant conductor of Nicole Corti for the Jeune Chœur Symphonique de Lyon, choir director for Les Nouveaux Caractères directed by Sébastien d'Hérin and sings occasionally in the Chœur Britten directed by Nicole Corti. |