Awarded the title of “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 2025 Victoires de la Musique Classique, Lorraine Campet is considered one of the leading double bassists of her generation.

A passionate musician with a desire to embrace her profession in its entirety, she thrives just as much in chamber music as she does at the heart of an orchestra, or in passing on her passion for the violin and the double bass. 

Lorraine studied double bass and violin from an early age, and went on to study with Suzanne Gessner at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSM) in Paris, where she obtained her master’s degree in double bass in 2016 in the class of Thierry Barbé and Jean-Edmond Bacquet, and her violin degree in 2019 in the class of Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian. 

In her desire to explore a different aesthetic, she also spent a year perfecting her skills with double bassist Petru Iuga at the University of Mannheim in Germany. 

A sought-after chamber musician, she has performed alongside artists such as Barbara Hannigan, Renaud Capuçon, the Trio Wanderer, Nathanaël Gouin, Leonidas Kavakos, Alexandre Kantorow, the Quatuor Modigliani, François Salque and Astrig Siranossian.

She is a member of the Smoking Joséphine string quintet alongside Geneviève Laurenceau, Olivia Hughes, Marie Chilemme and Hermine Horiot.

As a violinist she was also a member of the Confluence Quartet, with whom she won the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2019. 

Totally in love with the orchestra, she won her first position as co-soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the age of 17, where she remained for 7 years.

She is now Super Soloist at the Paris Opera and is regularly invited to play with the orchestras MusicAeterna and Utopia conducted by Teodor Currentzis, as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. She has performed under the baton of Teodor Currentzis, Daniel Harding, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniele Gatti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Lahav Shani, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano… 

Driven by a desire to pass on her knowledge, she teaches at the IESM (Pôle Supérieur) in Aix-en-Provence and is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world (USA, Germany, UK, Venezuela, Italy, Spain, China, Sweden, Norway, etc.).

Lorraine has won several double bass competitions, including 1st Prize in the Leopold Bellan International Competition, 1st Prize in the Bass 2014 International Competition in Amsterdam, 1st Prize in the FMAJI 2017 International Competition and 2nd Prize in the Giovanni Bottesini International Competition in Crema in 2017, which has led her to perform as a soloist in France and abroad, giving recitals and concerts as a soloist with orchestra. 

She plays on two exceptional double basses by Pietro-Antonio Testore and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, generously loaned by Xavier Moreno and Joséphine Moreno through the intermediary of Emmanuel Jaeger.

Lorraine has been sponsored by the Pirastro string brand since 2019.