“If the drawing is of calligraphic precision, the supple, direct gesture carries the listener into movements that have the fluidity of a mountain torrent,” writes Diapason, while Strad magazine places her “at the head of the pack” and The Times praises “Gaillard’s sorceress-like fingering, a great lyrical heart and a kaleidoscope of colours.”

An insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk, an immoderate appetite for the entire concertante cello repertoire without borders or stylistic quarrels, a civic commitment and an unconditional love of nature — these are undoubtedly what distinguished this brilliant Franco-Swiss interpreter very early on. Named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 2003 Victoires de la Musique Classique, she has since performed in recital across Asia and Europe and has been invited by the most prestigious orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic.

She is also the preferred interpreter of contemporary composers and actively commissions new works. For Aparté, she has recorded several award-winning complete sets — Bach, Britten, Schumann, Fauré, Chopin, Brahms, C.P.E. Bach, Strauss — as well as thematic albums that have won over a wide audience: Dreams, Alvorada, Exils, Vivaldi / I colori dell’ombra, A Night in London, Napoli!. In 2025, her latest album Cello Tango has received high praise from both the press and the public.

Passionate about encounters, she regularly shares the stage with Lambert Wilson, hip-hop dancer Ibrahim Sissoko, choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, Étoiles Hugo Marchand and Ludmila Pagliero, as well as bossa nova star Toquinho.

In 2005 she founded the Pulcinella Orchestra, which she directs from the cello, and with which she explores the 17th- and 18th-century repertoires on period instruments.

A sought-after pedagogue, she has been a professor at the Haute École de Musique de Genève since 2014, gives masterclasses on every continent and is regularly invited as a jury member for major international competitions (ARD Munich, Bach Leipzig, Concours de Genève, Isang Yun in Korea, etc.).