An extraordinary saxophonist, Valentine Michaud combines musical finesse with an extraordinary artistic vision. A winner of numerous awards, in 2020 she won the prestigious Credit Suisse Young Artist Award. The first saxophonist to appear as a soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic, Valentine made her debut with it under Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Lucerne Festival in 2022. Valentine is a regular guest soloist with renowned orchestras such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Philharmonie Zuidnederlands, MDR Sinfonieorchester, United States Navy Band, Moscow Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, State Cappella St Petersburg and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. For the 2024/25 season, Valentine is the soloist-in-residence with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for over 25 concerts conducted by Jonathan Nott, Giuseppe Mengoli or Zofia Kiniorska.

Convinced of the richness of collaborations with other art forms and seeking to develop new concert formats, Valentine is the co-founder of the transdisciplinary collective SIBJA, of which she is the artistic director together with her brother Emmanuel Michaud, performs as an instrumentalist and designs costumes. Her duo Akmi, with her pianist partner Akvilė Šileikaitė, has been performing around the world since 2015. Together, they regularly commission works from composers, and their debut album Beyond the Wall was released in November 2023 for Avie Records. Since 2022, Valentine has been performing as a duo with her brother Gabriel Michaud on percussion, with unique programmes combining new works, transcriptions and arrangements. Their first album, Oiseaux de Paradis, will be released in September 2024. Based in Switzerland since 2010, Valentine is a graduate of the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, the Université Paris IV Sorbonne and the Zurich University of the Arts, and has been teaching at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique de Genève since 2017. Since September 2024, she has been a guest professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.