Karine Lethiec is a French violist. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician, writes about music, and leads projects where music meets fine art, archaeology and science. Since 1999 she has directed Ensemble Calliopée, the group she founded as an open platform for new music and cross-disciplinary encounters. Over that time she has given more than a hundred world premieres and recorded, among other things, Mařatka's concerto Astrophonia with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France. Her repertoire spans older viola music and works by living composers; with the Talich Chamber Orchestra she recorded the complete Mozart string quintets for Arion. She has played at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Czech Philharmonic in Prague, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and in Tokyo. Lethiec works with the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, linking concerts to museum collections. In 2021 Arion released her monographic CD devoted to the composer Graciane Finzi.
