Born in 1965 in a musical family, Jeanne-Marie Conquer obtained the Premier Prix at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique at the age of 15. She studied at the Conservatoire in the classes of Pierre Amoyal (violin) and Jean Hubeau (Chamber music).

Jeanne-Marie Conquer is a soloist at the Ensemble InterContemporain since 1985. Her numerous tournées under the baton of Pierre Boulez, David Robertson, Jonathan Nott and many others have taken her to perform across all the continents.

She has developed especially strong artictic relationship with the composers of today: such as György Kurtág, György Ligeti (Violin Concerto and Horn Trio), Peter Eötvös (in his opera Le Balcon ) and Ivan Fedele.

Jeanne-Marie Conquer is also a member of the Quartet InterContemporain.

She has recorded with Deutsche Grammophon the Sequenza for solo violin by Luciano Berio and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and the Ode à Napoleon .

Amid many other performances this concert season, Jeanne-Marie Conquer performed Ligeti's Violin Concerto in the Cité de la Musique.