Biography :

Born in 1985 in Toulouse, Iris Zerdoud started the clarinet at the age of 8 at the Tours Regional Conservatory before continuing her studies in Paris. She was nominated at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNSMDP) in February 2007 in the class of Pascal Moraguès and Jean-François Verdier and received her Master's degree in June 2012.
 

She participates in numerous masterclasses in Europe, notably in France, Switzerland, Portugal, the Netherlands.
Iris also performs chamber music with renowned soloists in France and abroad, Jean-François Heisser, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Miguel da Silva. She regularly collaborates with various orchestras including the Orchester de l'Opéra de Paris, the Orchester National de France, the Orchester de Bretagne, the Orchester de Paris, and has also been teaching clarinet for several years In conservatory and in associations.
 

It is at the CNSMDP that it meets the founders of the Ensemble Le Balcon, together of which it has been part since its creation in 2008 and with whom it works very regularly.