Christine Dresse-Devanne got her Musical Degree from the Metz Regional Conservatory. Then, she followed Michel Debost classes at the Paris National Conservatory, after finishing first at the entrance competitive exam. In 1988, she was first-prize awarded.
With the Paris Quintette Aria, she was granted the second prize of the international Illzach Competition and first prize for the international competition in Martigny, Switzerland.
She is also award-winning for Menuhin and Cziffra Foundations.
As a recitalist in orchestras or playing chamber music, she has performed in prestigious places such as salle Pleyel, salle Gaveau, château de Versailles, Musicora au Grand Palais, in a lot of festivals and musical seasons like Arsenal de Metz, Festival d’Auvers sur Oise, Orangerie de Sceaux, Flâneries musicales de Reims, Classique au vert à Paris, Floréal musical d’Epinal, Festival de Meymac, Soirées Musicales de Moissac, Festival aux chandelles de Saint Pierre de l’Hâte. She also performed abroad: Belgium, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia.
From 1990 to 2013, she has been a flute-player for Erik Satie variable geometry musical ensemble. In the late years, she’s been working at the creation of shows mixing both theatrical and musical performances like “drôle d’échappée”, “le chêne aux serments”. Her repertoire now encompasses great classics and innovative new works.
Christine Dresse-Devanne earned the State Diploma for Music Professionals as well as the Artistic Teaching Professor for the CNFPT (National Centre for Public Service Region) and is now teaching for the Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux(92) and Blanc-Mesnil(93) Regional Conservatories.
A regular member of Regional and Departmental Music Conservatories juries, she also intervenes as a teacher for the pôle supérieur Paris/Boulogne Billancourt.
Both with the Aria Quintette (label Syrinx et label Aria) and the Erik Satie ensemble (Mùsica nueva series), she participated in recordings sessions.