Bio
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French pianist Justine Eckhaut is a versatile artist. Alongside her international concert career as a soloist, Lied partner and chamber musician, she is deeply committed to pedagogy and teaching as well as to interdisciplinary performance projects.
In February 2025, she won both First Prize and the Prize for Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, composed by Annette Schlünz, at the competition Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne in Graz in the “Lied Duo” category with soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga. In November 2024, she received the Prize for Outstanding Vocal Accompaniment at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin. She is a laureate of the International Piano Competition of Collioure and is supported by Adami. In 2024, she was awarded a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation in Berlin.
Justine Eckhaut studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon with Florent Boffard and David Selig, and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Björn Lehmann and Eric Schneider.
She has performed at venues such as the Opéra National de Lyon, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Bregenz Festival, on France Musique, and at the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. Her concert activities regularly take her to France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Italy and China.
In 2020, Justine Eckhaut founded berlied, an independent Lied festival in Berlin, which will present its fifth edition in October 2026 and will present, for the first time, a masterclass for singer–pianist duos. From 2019 to 2021, she was invited by Thomas Hampson to participate in the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling festival. She also receives important artistic guidance from Susan Manoff, Wolfram Rieger, Gerold Huber, and Sarah Tysman.
She is a member of Trio Dara with soprano Heather Newhouse and contralto Anthea Pichanick, in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac for the 2024–2025 season, and of Let me LIED you, an interdisciplinary project led by soprano Amanda Becker. She performs regularly with Katrina Paula Felsberga, Julia Dawson, Vizma Zvaigzne, Frederic Jost and Sara Gouzy and has appeared at the Schubert Woche of the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Heidelberger Frühling, LiedBASEL, Lied in Würzburg and the Hidalgo Festival in Munich.
She teaches Lied interpretation at the HMDK Stuttgart and works as a vocal coach at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is also assistant to the children’s choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (director: Vinzenz Weissenburger).
Deeply committed to ensemble work and contemporary music, she regularly collaborates with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin (KNM). She has taken part in world premieres of works by composers such as Manfred Trojahn, Luzia von Wyl, Annette Schlünz, Christian Ridil, Kai Kobayashi, Evija Skuķe, and Amanda Onnela.
She is based in Berlin.
Current as of May 2026
