Sophie Guille des Buttes
violin
- What is your professional background?
- I started playing the violin at age seven, after being moved by a recording of Christian Ferras performing the Sibelius concerto. I was then accompanied by three great pedagogues to whom I owe my musical aesthetic: Christophe Poiget, Roland Daugareil and Luc-Marie Aguera. When we started the quartet, I found an ideal way of expressing myself thanks to a beautiful group synergy and an amazing repertoire! In 2021, I obtained my master’s degree in violin at the CNSMDP, and entered the Paris Chamber Orchestra.
- Your house at Hogwarts?
- Hufflepuff! “You might belong in Hufflepuff, / Where they are just and loyal, / Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, / And unafraid of toil.”
- A composer who moves you?
- Two! Beethoven and Ravel.
- A work that moves you?
- Beethoven’s 14th quartet.
- Your hobbies?
- I like reading, watching movies, cooking and enjoying long talks by the fire… with or without fire.
- A film that speaks to you?
- Le goût des merveilles by Eric Besnard.
- Your favorite leaf?
- The Ginkgo Biloba’s.
- A vivid memory?
- A concert by the Tetzlaff quartet at the Philharmonie de Paris performing Shostakovich’s 11th quartet. Hypnotizing!
- Your preferred city?
- Barcelona for the fantastic universe of Gaudí.
- The books you like?
- The Malaussène series by Daniel Pennac, a detective novel full of madcap poetry that chronicles the incidents of an unconventional family, and the Ellana saga by Pierre Bottero, the adventures of a young woman smitten by freedom.
- What brings you together?
- A good meal and a good card game!
- A dream?
- To go on tour with the quartet in small towns around France, to meet people, share our music… doing all the travelling on two tandem bikes!!
