Lola Malique

cello

In 2016, Lola Malique obtained a Masters degree in classical cello from the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne in the class of François Salque, after having received a National Superior Professional Musician's Diploma and a Bachelor's degree at the Superior School of Seine-Saint-Denis in the class of Florian Lauridon. She has perfected herself with personalities like Philippe Muller, Sung Won Yang, the Manfred Quartet and the Voce Quartet as part of ProQuartet. Parallel to this instrumental training, she has had vocal training (jazz, French song) with Laura Littardi at the Cité des Arts in Paris.

She performs internationally as a soloist in Brazil (São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro) in 2017 then in Morocco (Oujda) in 2018 where she was artist in residence at the French Institute of Morocco.

Founding member of the ensemble 20 ° dans le Noir based in Paris, she develops and encourages the creation of new repertoire for cello and chamber music in collaboration with today's composers.

In 2017 she co-wrote and performed the music for Yoann Bourgeois' show, La Mécanique de l'Histoire au Panthéon as part of the Théâtre de la Ville.

She has been a guest musician with Ensemble Itinéraire, Soundinitiative, the cello ensemble of Paris and the Bloom Project.

She has composed the music for shows like "Au fond, la Chose", Ce que j'ai dans la vélo and MER with dancer Maud Miroux and works closely with Gatica. In 2020 she wrote the music for the shows Alice on the other side of the mirror for the company Alto and Insinuation for the dance company Trafic de Style.

In 2018, she joined collective lovemusic, a new music collective based in Strasbourg and got involved with them in various projects around the world (Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, England...).

In May 2019, Lola Malique released her first album, Le Meilleur Lit, distributed by Musicube. The release concert was held at the Basilica of Saint Denis as part of the Métis Festival, in partnership with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux. She has also performed at the Ars Musica Festival (Belgium), at the Détours de Babel festival (Grenoble), at the Musica festival (Strasbourg).

In 2020 she performed in duo in several places in France with the artist Anissa Nehari.

In 2023, she accompanies the Quebec writer Hélène Dorion on the cello on the occasion of the release of the collection of poetry "Mes forets", a work registered in the 2024 baccalaureate program.