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<\/a>Maxime Desert lives music as he sees human relationships, with a taste for shared, intense and honest emotions. A chamber musician at heart, he has found in the viola a resonant brother, full and warm. He is a soloist with the Multilat\u00e9rale and Musiques Nouvelles ensembles, working on both contemporary works and the great repertoire. A renowned chamber musician, in 2019 he will form the New Gates Trio with Matteo Cesari (flute) and Aur\u00e9lie Saraf (harp) for the Sonic Postcards project, short pieces lasting 10 to 30 seconds, open to composers wishing to share their sensations of a world suspended by the health crisis. Maxime is a member of the Odradek Trio, with St\u00e9phane Ginsburgh (piano) and Benjamin Maneyrol (clarinet). <\/p>\nHe also works closely with pianist Mariane Marchal, exploring the many facets of music for viola and piano, mixing essential classics, little-known works and original creations commissioned from contemporary composers, revealing all the versatility and creativity of this instrumental duo. Together, they have signed the album \u2018La Datcha de Chosta\u2019, to be released in spring 2025 by Paraty. This recording features Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, his last work, completed shortly before his death in 1975, just 50 years ago. This recording also celebrates Fyodor Druzhinin, the violist who dedicated the sonata, and is enriched by contemporary creations that extend this legacy. <\/p>\n
Maxime Desert plays a viola made in 1952 by Italian luthier Amedeo Simonazzi. He teaches at the music school in Wiltz, Luxembourg. <\/p>\n
His career<\/strong><\/p>\n As violist with the Quatuor Tana between 2010 and 2019, Maxime Desert recorded with these pioneers of contemporary creation the complete quartets of Jacques Lenot, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, each of which was praised by the press, including Choc Classica and Coup de c\u0153ur de l’Acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros. He has forged close ties with daring composers such as Yann Robin, Rapha\u00ebl Cendo, Franck Bedrossian, Yves Chauris, Ondr\u00ebj Adamek, Karol Beffa, Jean-Paul Dessy, David Achenberg and Philippe Boesmans. Concerts, prestigious festivals and a cascade of premieres punctuate his tours and encounters. In 2013, he was awarded the HSBC prize at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. <\/p>\n In 2017, his performance of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel with the ensemble Les M\u00e9taboles, \u2018subtly measured in dynamics, colour and vibrato\u2019 (Mich\u00e8le Tosi, Res Musica), was a turning point in his approach to music. The desire to explore new horizons, following his own rhythm through increasingly personal projects, was affirmed. <\/p>\n His extensive experience has enabled him to work alongside many prestigious orchestras. He has worked with the Orchestre national de Belgique, the Orchestre philharmonique de Li\u00e8ge and the renowned Vienna Klangforum, renowned for its commitment to contemporary music. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maxime Desert lives music as he sees human relationships, with a taste for shared, intense and honest emotions. A chamber musician at heart, he has found in the viola a resonant brother, full and warm. He is a soloist with the Multilat\u00e9rale and Musiques Nouvelles ensembles, working on both contemporary works and the great repertoire. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":246789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[1622,363,1452,124,125,131],"project_tag":[485,1586,1587,1598],"class_list":["post-246795","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-ete-2026-en","project_category-academie-ete-ang","project_category-ete-2025-ang","project_category-session-2-alto-en","project_category-session-2-musique-de-chambre-en","project_category-session-2-violon-en","project_tag-alto-en","project_tag-cours-dalto-en","project_tag-stage-dalto-en","project_tag-maxime-desert-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/246795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/246795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249043,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/246795\/revisions\/249043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=246795"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=246795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
After taking his first steps on the piano, entering the Valenciennes Conservatoire at the age of 7 and winning a gold medal as a violinist at the Douai Conservatoire, Maxime Desert went on to study the viola at the Conservatoire National de R\u00e9gion de Rueil-Malmaison in 2005, in Fran\u00e7oise Gneri’s class, where he was awarded the Prix d’Excellence. He also benefited from the guidance of Tasso Adamopoulos and Pierre-Henri Xuereb. He obtained his Master’s degree with Great Distinction from the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles in 2010, studying with Th\u00e9r\u00e8se-Marie Gilissen. Throughout his apprenticeship and musical career, he has benefited from the advice of masters such as the Jerusalem Quartet, Alfred Brendel, Gabor Takacs, Andr\u00e9s Keller, Nicholas Kirchen and David Alberman. <\/p>\n