Gaëlle Bisson began learning the violin at the age of four with Miquel Candéla, with whom she studied for 12 years, before furthering her training with Jean-Pierre Wallez and Aurélio Perez.

At the age of 11, she performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France during a television broadcast. She was unanimously awarded First Prize for chamber music at the Conservatoire National de Région (CNR) in Saint-Maur in 1986 and received a Special Jury Prize at the chamber music competition at the Forum Musical de Normandie in 1989.

She joined the Orchestre de Paris in 1997.