Biography

Italian-born clarinetist Valentina Rebaudo studied at the Conservatoire National de Région in Nice, the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, and the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne. An eclectic artist, she is very active in chamber music and is responsible for the theory department at the Lausanne Conservatory. A pioneer in promoting music as a form of non-violent resistance, she has led educational projects in Palestinian refugee camps and in Latin America. Sensitive to the social dimension of music, she is a member of Les Concerts du Cœur, a Swiss association that received the Prix Culturel 2023, which aims to integrate music into the daily lives of the elderly, hospitalized, incarcerated, or disadvantaged people, in order to help alleviate their isolation through quality concerts. Valentina is also the artistic director of the Festival du Bois qui Chante in Château-d'Oex.

Born in Bordighera (Italy), Valentina Rebaudo begins studying the clarinet at the Conservatory of Menton (France) under the tutelage of Jean-Louis Dedieu. At the age of 10, she gives her first recital at the Palais de l’Europe of Menton, and three years later she is the laureate of the Le Royaume de la Musique competition organized by Radio France.​

In 2004 she enters the National Conservatory of Nice (France) with professor Michel Lethiec, where she completes her studies in 2007 with an unanimous Gold Medal. In 2009 she enters the Haute Ecole de Musique of Lau​sanne (Switzerland) in the class of Frédéric Rapin, and in 2013 she receives her Master of Music Education with highest honors from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne: her thesis, which focuses on the non-violent power of music (Music, this Beautiful Resistance) and proposes a new conception of musical education that emphasizes the responsibility of the pedagogue to transmit the humanness of artistic expression, impresses and moves the jury. In 2015, after one year of specialization at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in the class of Jörg Widmann, she gets her second Master of Interpretation with highest honors at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne.

Member of the Soloists of Monte Carlo since she was 11, Valentina has been featured as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Symphonic Orchestra of San Remo and several chamber orchestras of the Côte d’Azur... very active in chamber music, she has been invited in several important chamber music festivals, and she often had the opportunity to give concerts beside great musicians, like the danish viola player Claus Myrup, portuguese contrabassist Tiago Pinto Ribeiro, the belgian pianist Philippe Raskin, the violinists Ernst Kovacic, Felix Froschhammer and Christian Danowicz, the french oboe player Olivier Stankiewicz, the french bassoon player Sophie Dartigalongue, the Lutoslawski Quartet of Warsaw, the Sine Nomine Quartet, the Terpsycordes Quartet, the Orchestra da Tre Soldi of Turin, the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra of Wroclaw... in 2014, she plays the world premiere of the iranian composer Hooshyar Khayam's Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, with the iranian pianist Layla Ramezan.

Valentina performs regularly with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in Lausanne, the Münchener Kammerorchester in Munich, the Soloists of Monte Carlo, the Lausanne Camerata, and she is member of the Orchestre Sinfonietta in Lausanne. In 2013 she is part of the cast of L'Echappée Belle, a piece for puppets, narrator and clarinet trio, produced and directed by the french actor and director Guy Jutard, that proves a huge success with more than 50 performances during the spring 2013 in Geneva. En 2019 et 2020, she collaborates with the Neue Oper Freiburg for Laïka, le chien de l'espace, an opera for children written by Russell Hepplewhite, on stage at the Théâtre L'Equilibre in Freiburg, Le Reflet in Vevey, and at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Among her projects: Opera Viva!, a lyric sextet featuring Mozart shows; Duo Rusalka with the pianist Irene Puccia, that create programs which incorporate different art forms (dance, poetry, texts, singing), whose works are interwoven with a common thread; The baby-concerts, shows for young audiences, in partneship with the pedagogue Violaine Contreras De Haro. Since 2025, he is also artistic director of Festival Le Bois qui Chante, a chamber music festival in Château-d'Oex with 25 years of history.

Holder of a CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) in Willems Music Initiation, Valentina has been appointed professeur at the Conservatory of Music in Lausanne in 2015, she has been the responsible for theory department since 2023, and she holds conferences on the importance of humain value of music education for child's global development: in 2013, she was invited at the International Festival of the Child's Rights in Pavia (italy), where she held a concert-conference on the theme of music that could be seen as a form of nonviolent resistance, and in 2017, she was invited at the Art Culture Territory Festival in Ventimiglia (Italy), where she held a meeting on the dual concept of music and integration. She collaborated with the University of Aix-Marseille (France), for a thesis in Political Science about the democratization of classical music, as well as with the Centre Professionnel du Nord vaudois (Switzerland) for a thesis on the importance of musical initiation in childhood, and with the Haute Ecole de Musique of Lausanne as part of an interview on active learning. In 2020, she collaborates with the University of Mons (Belgium) for a research on the possibility of Willems Musical Initiation's adaptation in the Belgian academies, and she is invited by the Soroptimist International Club to hold the conference Music, this beautiful resistance in Vevey.

She works to promote music as a means of “peaceful resistance” in countries at war: thanks to this project, she regularly travels to Palestine and teaches music to the refugee children, working with the Edward Said National Conservatory and the Instruments for Peace Foundation. She also collaborates with Crescendo con la Música mexican foundation and the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, the idea that children, in Europe and around the world, need art to create a free society. Valentina is one of the artistes who collaborate with Les Concerts du Coeur, a Swiss association that holds the Prix Culturel 2023, which organizes concerts for elderly, hospitalized or incarcerated people: as part of this association, she holds workshops for young artists, in collaboration with pianist Irene Puccia, on the importance of artistic mediation in disadvantaged contexts.