Appointed professor of viola at the CNSMD de Lyon in 2009, Françoise Gnéri is a musician with an eclectic and original career, distinguished by her passionate commitment to the most varied projects. A soloist at the Paris Opera Orchestra for several years, she met the greatest conductors there (Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung...) and developed a sense of lyricism and dramaturgy that would never leave her. Her intense chamber music activity and her profound knowledge of 20th-century music have earned her invitations to the most important French stages (Châtelet, Radio-France, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Beaubourg, etc.) and abroad (Bremen, Venice, Lisbon, Tokyo, New York...) where she has performed with artists such as Philip Hirschhorn, Christoph Henkel, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Maxim Vengerov, Bruno Pasquier, François Salque, Claire Désert, Olivier Charlier, Marianne Piketty, and Ophélie Gaillard. She has recorded the Brahms sonatas and Schumann's Violin Sonata in A minor, transcribed for viola, an album for which she received the best reviews. She has also recorded the 6 Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach for Polymnie. Regularly invited by Jean-François Zygel to participate in his music lessons and his classical cabaret, she shares with him this taste for creating a dynamic relationship between the audience and the musicians, and puts her talent at the service of original events, mixing new audiences, in unusual places, with a desire for sharing and communication. Since 2010, she has been artistic director of the International Music Academy of Hourtin-Médoc and of the Tétrakys association in Touraine. She plays a viola by Raphael and Anton Gagliano from 1856 and a viola by Charotte from 1837.