Paul Wiener
Violist - Studio Academy - Season 2024/2025
Paul Wiener was born into a family of musicians in 2001. HIs great-grand father was the pianist and composer Jean Wiener (1896-1982). Paul began learning the violin with his mother and following lessons with Jacques Benvallet, he joined the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris in 2016 where he studied with Stéphanie Moraly. On her advice, he switched to the viola with Sébastien Luigi as his teacher. He won second prize at the National Young Violists Competition in 2019 on his great grandfather’s instrument. He joined the Conservatoire de Paris – CNSMDP in 2020, studying viola with David Gaillard. In 2022, he pursued violin studies under Stéphanie-Marie Degand at the same establishment and. In 2023, he obtained a chamber music degree with his friend, violist Guillaume Florès. In 2024, he obtained his Batchelor’s Diploma for viola, was pre selected for the Tertis International Competition and won a place in the Orchestre de Paris’s Studio Academy 2024/2025 season.
Paul is involved in various musical projects, such as the illustrated show Petite Sœur Lueur (2022-2024), the French Violists Collective (2024), and was selected to perform with the European Union Youth Orchestra (2022), Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Academy (2022), and the Verbier Festival Orchestra (2023 and 2024). He works regularly with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, and at the Philharmonie de Paris. This year Paul Wiener continues his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris to complete his viola Master’s degree, alongside his dual studies in violin and viola. He is also starting a chamber music degree with the Simone Quartet.