Mélina Burlaud is of Franco-German origin. She studied music at the Conservatoires of Pau and Toulouse, where she won first prizes in piano, organ and chamber music. From 2001 to 2006 she studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Berlin, graduating in piano and chamber music. She also completed an advanced course in vocal accompaniment at the University of Vienna in Austria. She was lucky enough to be a pupil of the famous pianist Brigitte Engerer for 4 years. She taught piano from 2006 to 2021. She is a professor at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse and at the Pôle Supérieur de Toulouse (Isdat). Mélina Burlaud has been awarded several prestigious grants: DAAD, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and the Lavoisier grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She pursues her artistic career as a pianist and organist and has performed in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and China. She has been conducting historical and musicological research on music in the Gurs camp since 2017 and is a doctoral student on this subject at the University of Pau and Oldenburg in Germany. She has been awarded a CIERA scholarship, a scholarship from the Franco-German Institute for Historical and Social Sciences (IFRA-SHS) in Frankfurt, a scholarship from the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid and the Auschwitz Research Prize.
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