Jeanne-Marie Conquer has developed close artistic relationships with contemporary composers and has worked in particular with György Kurtág, György Ligeti (on the Trio with Horn and Violin Concerto), Peter Eötvös (on his opera Le Balcon) and Ivan Fedele. She has recorded different works for Deutsche Grammophon: Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for solo violin, and Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Ode to Napoleon, as well as Pierre Boulez’s Anthèmes and Anthèmes II for a publication by Jean-Jacques Nattiez on the composer’s work.
Jeanne-Marie Conquer was the soloist in Anthèmes II at the Lucerne Festival in 2002 and premiered it in South America, in Buenos Aires in 2006. She notably performed György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto for his 80th birthday at the Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris in 2003, and again at the Festival Musica in 2023 with the Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Bleuse. Apart from her soloist career, Jeanne-Marie Conquer teaches at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP).