Valérie Hartmann-Claverie studied piano, harp, Ondes Martenot and chamber music at college, followed by further study of the Ondes Martenot at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with Jeanne Loriod. In 1973, she gave her debut concert in Vienna, and now performs throughout Europe with prestigious orchestras such as the London Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, New Japan Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra London, BBC Symphony Orchestra Manchester, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Hamburger Philharmoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma, Münchner Philharmoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, London Sinfonietta, Radio Philharmonisch Orkest Holland, RSO Wien, Oslo Filharmonien, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, working with conductors as such as Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, Kurt Masur, Marek Janowski, Hans Vonk, Lothar Zagrosek, Leif Segerstam, Reinbert de Leeuw, Hubert Soudant, Eliahu Inbal, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Yan Pascal Tortellier, Edo de Waart, Daniel Harding, Sylvain Cambreling, Pascal Rophé, Bertrand de Billy, Hans Zender, Pierre Boulez, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ingo Metzmacher, Charles Dutoit, Esa-Pekka Salonen. She took part in the creation of Olivier Messiaen’s opera Saint François d’Assise, and she is regularly invited for playing this work, all around the world. Valérie Hartmann-Claverie was a member of the Loriod Sextet from its foundation in 1974 until 1995, and in 1996 she founded the quartet “Ondes de Choc”. She also collaborated with the famous English Rock band Radiohead, playing live with Tom York for a show organized by the French Channel Canal+. Johnny Greenwood, the guitarist and ondist of Radiohead, later offered her to interpret and record his piece Smear for the first time in London, which was included in the original soundtrack of the movie There Will Be Blood. Valérie Hartmann-Claverie appears for the first time with the GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER on its Summer Tour 2017