Marina Chiche is a French violinist born on November 10, 1981, in Marseille, France. Having begun playing the violin at age three, she studied under Jean Ter-Merguerian at the Conservatoire national de région de Marseille and later earned four first prizes at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. Her debut recording, Sonates pour violon et piano, released in 2003 with pianist Vahan Mardirossian, received critical acclaim. She performed worldwide with orchestras including the Ensemble orchestral de Paris and Sinfonia Varsovia, and collaborated with musicians such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Augustin Dumay. Her discography also includes the albums Après une lecture de Bach (2008), Hermann Götz – Piano Quartet / Piano Quintet (2015), and Post-scriptum (2020). In 2023, she was appointed Chevalière de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
