Following his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, Jérôme Pernoo has won numerous awards at major international competitions: Laureate at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 3 rd Prize at the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 1994 and 1 st Prize at the Pretoria Competition in 1996.

Jérôme Pernoo performs with most of the major French symphony orchestras, and collaborates with Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble and Marc Minkowski, as well as the Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. With the latter, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 and at Carnegie Hall in New York. Abroad, he performs with phalanges such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra in Munich, the Zurich Opera Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra and the Stockholm Radio Orchestra.

In recital with pianist Jérôme Ducros, he performs on some of the most prestigious musical stages: London's Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. His other chamber music partners include: Alina Ibragimova, Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Henri Demarquette, Christophe Coin, Frank Braley, Nicholas Angelich, Eric Le Sage, Thomas Enhco, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, the Ebène, Modigliani and Chiaroscuro quartets...

A dedicatee of works by composers such as Guillaume Connesson, Jérôme Ducros, Jérémie Rhorer and Fabien Waksman, in 2008 he performed the world premiere of Guillaume Connesson's cello concerto.

Jérôme Pernoo co-founded the Festival de Pâques de Deauville, then created the festival Les Vacances de Monsieur Haydn in La Roche-Posay, which held its first edition in 2005.

For Deutsche Grammophon, he records Offenbach's Grand Concerto with Marc Minkowski and Connesson's Concerto with Jean-Christophe Spinosi. With Jérôme Ducros, he has published sonatas by Rachmaninov and Bridge, as well as Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata". Sony Classical released a recording devoted entirely to the chamber music of Guillaume Connesson.

In 2015, he founded the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris, of which he is artistic director, and stages numerous musical performances with young artists from all over the world.

In the 2023-2024 season, he will present three new productions based on the Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen, the Shepherd on the Rock by Schubert and the Piano Quintet by Schumann.

A film of the complete Bach Suites in concert is due for release in 2024.

Jérôme Pernoo plays an anonymous 18 th -century Italian baroque cello and piccolo cello from the Milan school, as well as a modern cello made for him by Franck Ravatin.

Jérôme Pernoo has taught at London's Royal College of Music, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and the Musica Mundi School of Music (Belgium), Then, in 2023, he set up his own private school in Paris, within his online academy Jérôme Pernoo eStudio.

He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in France and abroad (Kronberg Academy, European Chamber Music Academy, Villecroze, Académie Ravel) and to sit as a jury at the most important international cello competitions (Feuermann Competition in Berlin, Isang Yun Competition in South Korea, Enesco Competition in Bucharest).

Jérôme Pernoo pays tribute to his first teachers: the devoted Germaine Fleury, Klaus Heitz, Xavier Gagnepain and Philippe Muller at the Paris Conservatoire.