Iris Zerdoud
Iris Zerdoud entered the Paris Conservatory in 2007, studying under Pascal Moraguès and Jean-François Verdier, and obtained her master's degree in 2012. During her studies, she also spent several months on an Erasmus exchange at the Royal College of Music in London.
It was at the conservatory that she joined Le Balcon, starting with its inaugural concert in 2008. She has participated in most of the ensemble's concerts since then. Since 2018, Iris Zerdoud has performed as a soloist in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Licht opera cycle at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra Comique (Paris), the Southbank Centre in London, and the Opéra de Lille. She plays the role of Eva, one of the three main characters, and performs these operas on a Buffet Crampon basset horn loaned by La Fugue – Europera.
Iris Zerdoud also performs chamber music, playing major works from the repertoire such as Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the Salzburg Festival and Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps during a tour of Colombia.
Since 2013, she has been training in show production under the mentorship of Patrick Marijon. Iris Zerdoud is currently production director of the ensemble Le Balcon alongside her career as a clarinetist.
