Anne Gravoin

Anne Gravoin (born 4 November 1965) is a French concert violinist and music entrepreneur.

In 2010 she married Manuel Valls, who served between 2014 and 2016 as Prime Minister of France. However, in April 2018 Valls announced their separation.

Life and career Gravoin was born in south-west France at Montauban where two generations earlier Dr Corenfeld, her maternal grandfather, had settled after completing his medical studies at Strasbourg. He had emigrated from the Soviet part of Moldavia, then the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in order to escape the predations of Stalinism. Anne Gravoin's mother became an English teacher. Her father, whose family came from Bourbonnais in the centre of the country, was a professional violinist with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. Six months after her birth

She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where her teachers included Gérard Poulet, Dominique Hoppenot, and Myriam Solovieff. She won a first prize as a violinist and for her participation in chamber music.

In 1984 she started working with musician-singers such as Laurent Voulzy, Marc Lavoine and Michel Jonasz. She was the violin soloist with the "Archets Européens" ("European Bows") in 1989, one of the three largest organisations of its kind in the Paris region, and which works with musicians, mostly on short term contracts, to provide and coordinate orchestral support and collaboration, both domestically and outside France. Each year more than 400 musicians are employed. In 2013 and 2014 it participated in the lengthy "Sur le chemin" ("On the road") tour of Emmanuel Moire, which took in more than 70 concerts across France, Switzerland and Belgium.

Personal life A daughter from her first marriage, Juliette, was born in 1992.