Cellist, improviser and composer Adèle Viret (born in 1999) is described as one of the most promising young musicians of her generation. Winner of the Victoires du Jazz 2025 award in the “Revelation” category, her unique musical universe was revealed with the creation in 2023 of her very first group, the Adèle Viret Quartet (winner of Jazz Migration #9 2023, winner of the Euroradio Jazz Competition 2024, FoRTE grant 2024). The group has performed at renowned venues such as Jazz in Marciac (FR), Bimhuis (NL), NDR Hamburg (DE), Nuoro Jazz Festival (IT) and was selected for the Jazzahead! 2025 showcase. The quartet's first album, “Close to the Water,” released in October 2024, was named ‘Revelation’ by Jazz Magazine and “Indispensable” by Jazz News.

Adèle has followed an eclectic path, varying the role of the cello within multiple musical aesthetics. She began studying classical cello at a young age at the Montreuil Conservatory and perfected her skills at the CRR in Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. She benefited from the teaching of Hélène Silici, Nadine Pierre, Matthieu Lejeune, and Didier Poskin, and in 2023 she obtained her Bachelor's degree from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. At the same time, she made a name for herself in the professional world through projects involving improvised music, jazz, and world music, rubbing shoulders with personalities such as Magic Malik and Fabrizio Cassol. She participated in the Banff Centre's Jazz & Sonic Arts program, where she benefited from the mentorship of Lester St-Louis, Nick Dunston, Kalia Vandever, and Sissel Vera Pettersen.

Lulled from an early age by the music of her jazz double bassist father, she developed a sense of improvisation and composition at a very young age. Her curiosity led her to join and initiate projects combining different aesthetics and disciplines (dance, literature, theater). In 2019, she created n'Être, a cello and dance duo whose music and choreography are composed jointly by the two artists. That same year, she joined the Medinea network (Mediterranean Youth Orchestra), which brings together young artists from the Mediterranean basin to create an original repertoire. Deeply influenced by the experience of intercultural creation, she created her own collective, Mosaïc, with Bulgarian, French, Portuguese, and Tunisian musicians, whose first album will be released in March 2026 (Fuga Libera). At the same time, she performs internationally, notably in the Netherlands with Syrian singer Jawa Manla, in Belgium with the group Aka Moon and Tremor (Alejandra Borzyk), and in Portugal with Zé Almeida Analogik Quartet and the group Apophenia.

In 2024, she joined the Kaija Quartet, a string quartet promoting contemporary music and new compositions. At the same time, she worked in a trio with electronic artist Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch and Fabrizio Cassol. In October 2025, the Goethe Institut and Jazz Station gave her carte blanche to create Nawā, a quartet combining jazz, poetic narratives, contemporary languages, and Arab and North African traditions. In 2026, the renowned Bozar concert hall in Brussels gave her carte blanche, during which Adèle invited Portuguese accordionist João Barradas to perform a new repertoire as a duo. Alongside her instrumental practice, she has been commissioned to compose a piece for solo cello by Les Ateliers du Violoncelle (2023 edition). In 2025, the Klara Festival asked her to join the intercultural project “Sounds of Brussels” as co-artistic director.

Adèle is the recipient of the Forte scholarship, the Villecroze Music Academy scholarship, and the Marion Bourgine prize awarded by the Jazz in Marciac workshop. She received self-production assistance from Sacem for her first album and has been an artist endorsed by Gewa Strings since 2025.