First trained as a pianist, she acquired a solid experience of vocal music within the Maîtrise de Radio France, and then at the Young Choir of Paris and les Cris de Paris. Today she continues to produce herself as a soloist with several formations including the trio Viva Lux, which she founded in 1999, the Ensemble l’Echelle which she took over as director in 2016, and the Mora Vocis ensemble, whose vocation is to explore and broadcast historical chamber music repertoires from the Middle Ages, the renaissance, and contemporary creation. She is also brought to regularly sing the baroque repertoire within groups such as the Concert Spirituel or the Concert d’Astrée, and recent vocal music with Les Elements, Melismes, Macadam Ensemble or Aedes choir.
In the meantime, she graduated at the CNSMDP successively seven prizes for analysis, renaissance counterpoint, harmony, 20th century writing, orchestration, aesthetics, and musical acoustics. Passionate about the sound phenomenon in its three dimensions : elaboration, interpretation and perception, it seemed natural that Caroline Marçot turned to composition in 2000.
Winner in 2003 of the Natexis Foundation, and in 2021 of the Georges Enesco Symphonic Prize of SACEM, his catalog now includes some sixty vocal and instrumental works commissioned by Ariam Ile de France, ADDIM Haute-Saône, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Cité de la Musique, Cité de la Voix, Musique Nouvelle en Liberté, Notre Dame de Paris college choir, the CCRs of Sylvanès and Ambronnay, CREA of
Aulnay/Bois youth scenic choir, France Musique, France Culture, and created in particular by Geoffroy Jourdain, Rachid Safir, Laurence Equilbey, Roland Hayrabedian, Gildas Pungier, Lionel Sow, Daniel Reuss, the Clément Janequin ensemble, Sit Fast Consort, the Perspectives ensemble, Vincent Lhermet…
In her vocal masterclasses, she develops a pedagogy giving pride of place to oral transmission, guided by working on the breath in motion in a wandering context. This bodily approach linked to physical and architectural environments allows her to collaborate happily with contemporary circus or dance, with Cahin-Caha or la Débordante Compagnie.