Pascale Meley was awarded a First Prize in violin at the Paris National Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Gérard Jarry’s class and went on to complete a postgraduate course in chamber music in Jean Mouillère’s class, whilst also attending Pierre Doukan’s class for orchestral concertmaster.

She joined the Orchestre de Paris in 1989.

In 1984 she founded the Verlaine Quartet, which won First Prize at the Luxembourg International Competition and recorded an album dedicated to Webern and Shostakovich. As first violinist of the Paris String Quartet, with whom she performs regularly, she has also recorded in Japan Maurice Ravel’s Quartet in F major, Schumann’s Quartet No. 2, and works by Puccini, Wolf and Webern.

Pascale Meley has also taught violin at the National School of Music in Cergy-Pontoise (1992–93) and at the Conservatoire d’Asnières-sur-Seine (1996–2003). She has held the Certificate of Aptitude for the post of violin teacher since March 1996.