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After pursuing graduate studies in Art and Archaeology and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Edith Canat de Chizy successively obtained six premiers prix at the Paris Conservatoire including one in composition. She became initiated into electro-acoustic music with Guy Reibel at the Conservatoire and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). Aa a student of Ivo Malec, she had in 1983 a decisive encounter with Maurice Ohana to whom she, with François Porcile, would devote a monograph in 2005 (Ed. Fayard). The catalogue of this trained violinist, presently boasting more than 100 opus numbers, concertante music occupies a special place: Moïra, cello concerto, noticed in 1999 by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco; the following year, Exultet, violin concerto premiered in 1995 by Laurent Korcia, was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique awards; Les Rayons du Jour, viola concerto, was first performed in February 2005 by Ana Bela Chaves and the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, and lastly Missing, her second violin concerto, created by the Orchestre National de France in March 2017. Amongst other notable works, most of them written to commissions by the State, Radio-France, the Orchestre de Paris, IRCAM, and ensembles (Musicatreize, Solistes XXI, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Sequenza 9.3, Accentus, TM+ ...), one will note in particular her vocal pieces including Canciones for twelve mixed voices (1992), the scenic oratorio Le Tombeau by Gilles de Rais (1993) - SACD young talented music prize in 1998 - the performance of Blanca Li Corazon loco Théâtre National de Chaillot in January 2007, her four string quartets: Vivere (2000), Alive (2003),
