Marie Chilemme was born in Toulouse (France) in 1988. She began playing the viola at the age of three. In 2005, she was accepted into Jean Sulem's class at the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique de Paris. From 2008 to 2013, she was selected every year for the Ozawa Academy in Switzerland (IMAS), where she was taught by Paméla Franck, Robert Mann, Sadao Arada, Nobuko Imai and Seiji Ozawa.​

 

In 2010, Marie Chilleme obtained her Master's degree with distinction in Paris. Marie Chilemme then joined Tabea Zimmermann's class at the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin and the string quartet class of the Artemis Quartet. 

 

In 2012, she and her brother founded the “Quatuor Cavatine”, with which she won prizes at the renowned International Competition for Chamber Music in Hamburg (ICMC) and second prize at the International Competition for String Quartets in Banff, Canada (Bisqc).

Marie is accepted as a scholarship holder in Miguel Da Silva's viola class at the Queen Elisbeth Music Chapel in Brussels. In October 2017 Marie Chilemme joins the QUATUOR ÉBÈNE. In January 2021, the quartet was commissioned by the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich to set up a string quartet class as part of the newly founded “Quatuor Ébène Academy”. Marie Chilemme plays the Gibson Stradivarius from 1734, which is on loan to her from the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray.