Anne Gravoin
| Anne Gravoin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 November 1965 Montauban, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Conservatoire de Paris |
| Occupation | Concert violinist |
| Spouse(s) | Manuel Valls (m. 2010) |
Anne Gravoin (born Montauban 4 November 1965) is a French concert violinist and music-entrepreneuse.
Since 2010 her husband has been Manuel Valls, former Prime Minister of France.
Gravoin was born in south-west France at Montauban where two generations earlier Dr Corenfeld, her maternal grandfather, had settled after completing his medical studies at Strasbourg. He had emigrated from the Soviet part of Moldavia, then the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in order to escape the predations of Stalinism. Anne Gravoin's mother became an English teacher. Her father, whose family came from Bourbonnais in the centre of the country, was a professional violinist with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. Six months after her birth the family relocated from Montauban to the Paris suburb of La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire.
She studied at the Paris Conservatoire where her teachers included , Dominique Hoppenot, and Myriam Solovieff. She won a first prize as a violinist and for her participation in chamber music.
In 1984 she started working with musician-singers such as Laurent Voulzy, Marc Lavoine and Michel Jonasz. She was the violin soloist with the "Archets Européens" ("European Bows") in 1989, with the Tours based Orchestra of Central France between 2001 and 2004, and of the "Orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire prize-winners" in 2004. She has been a member of the Menuhin Foundation since 1986. In 2007 she founded a string quartet, the Travelling Quartet.
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