Alice Piérot is a French Baroque violinist.

Biography

Piérot studied music at the

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. In 1988, she turned to baroque music and became

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Marc Minkowski Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. Minkowski was musical director of Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Austria, from 2013 to 2017 and was gene ...

's orchestra,

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Biographie
on amarillis.fr and recorded operas by

Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (; ; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera a ...

, Mondonville and

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... (issued by

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). She also makes recordings with Jean-Patrice Brosse's ensemble ''Concerto Rococo'', for the

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label ( Schobert) and Florence Malgoire's ''Les Nièces de Rameau'' ( CPE Bach, Rameau,

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). As

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ian, she participates as a guest in the ensemblme (Rameau, Antoine Dauvergne) and founds and directs ''Les Veilleurs de nuit''; She is also a member of the ''Anpapié'' string trio (with Fanny Paccoud, viola and Elena Andreyev, cello) since its foundation in 2002 and plays in duet with the piano-fortist Aline Zylberajch. In 2002, she recorded Heinrich Biber's ''

Rosary Sonatas The ''Rosary Sonatas'' (''Rosenkranzsonaten'', also known as the ''Mystery Sonatas'' or ''Copper-Engraving Sonatas'') by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber are a collection of 15 short sonatas for violin and continuo, with a final passacaglia for solo ...

'' for the

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label, a disc which won a ''

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'' of the year 2003. In 2004, she entered as first violin in

Hervé Niquet Hervé Niquet (born 28 October 1957) is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music. Biography Born on 28 October 1957, Hervé Niquet was raised at Abbeville in ...

's ' ensemble and is a soloist at ' directed by Martin Gester. Piérot teaches the

Baroque violin A Baroque violin is a violin set up in the manner of the baroque period of music. The term includes original instruments which have survived unmodified since the Baroque period, as well as later instruments adjusted to the baroque setup, and moder ...

and an orchestra class at the Aix-en-Provence conservatory. Béatrice Linon is one of her pupils. In 2002 Alice Piérot invested a former factory near Avignon and transformed it into a vast musical vessel,
La Courroie
', which now hosts concerts, residencies, creations and recordings, experimenting with new forms of dissemination and practice of music, from the oldest to the most contemporary.

Discography

In particular, she recorded for the Zig-zag territoires, Opus 111, Verany,

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and Alpha labels. * Bach's

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– Martin Gester, organ (9-13 September 1993, 2CDs Decca/Accord 205322) * CPE Bach, ''Sanguineus et Melancholicus'': Sonates en trio Wq 146, 147, 148, 161 – ''Les Nièces de Rameau'': Florence Malgoire, violin; Alice Piérot, violin; Marianne Muller,

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; Aline Zylberajch, harpsichord (21–25 October 2002, Zig Zag Territoires ZZT 030701) * CPE Bach, ''Testament et Promesses'' – Aline Zylberajch (2012, L’Encelade) *

Heinrich Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber correctly ''Biber von Bibern'' ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left hi ...

– ''Les Veilleurs de Nuit'': Alice Piérot, violin and conducting; Marianne Müller, viol; Pascal Monteilhet,

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; Elisabeth Geiger, claviorganum (2003, Alpha) *

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's ''Quatuors d'après les sonates de Beethoven'' – Ad Fontes Quartet: Alice Piérot and Enrico Parizzi, violins; Monica Ehrsam, viola; Reto Cuonz, cello (February 2004, Alpha) *

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, ''Récréations de musique pour 2 violons & basse continue'' – ''Les Nièces de Rameau'': Marianne Muller, Florence Malgoire, Claire Giardelli, Aline Zylberach (1993, Verany PV 794 001) *

, Trio Sonatas in three & four parts – ''Les Nièces de Rameau'': Florence Malgoire, Alice Piérot, Claire Giardelli, Marianne Muller, Aline Zylberajch (1995, Verany) *

, Concert harpsichord pieces – ''Les Nièces de Rameau'': Florence Malgoire and Alice Piérot (violins); Marianne Muller (viol); Aline Zylberajch (harpsichord) (23-25 February 1998, Accord) * Schobert, Trios with harpsichord – Jean-Patrice Brosse, harpsichord (13-14 December 1990, Verany PV 791042)

With the Amarillis ensemble

* 2011: ''Ferveur et Extase'' –

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, mezzo-soprano; Amarillis; Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard (20-23 September 2010, Ambronay Editions) * 2014: Jean-Philippe Rameau: ''Cantates'' and ''Pièces de clavecin en concert'' – Mathias Vidal, tenor; Ensemble Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard, baroque oboe and recorder; Violaine Cochard, harpsichord; Alice Piérot, violin; Marianne Muller, viol (Naïve Records) * 2015: Antoine Dauvergne & Gérard Pesson – ''Les Troqueurs'' and ''La Double Coquette'' – Jaël Azzaretti, Isabelle Poulenard; Héloïse Gaillard (December 2015, 2CD NoMadMusic) * 2016: Pergolesi's ''

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'' –

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(soprano) and

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(contralto);

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(recorder), Violaine Cochard (harpsichord & positive organ), Alice Piérot (first violin), Sandrine Dupé, Louis Créac'h (violins I), Olivier Briand, Diana Lee, Koji Yoda (violins II), Fanny Paccoud, Laurent Muller (violas), Annabelle Luis, Frédéric Baldassare (cellos), Gautier Blondel (doublebasse), Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo). (

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88985369642) * 2017: ''Effervescence concertante'' – Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard (recorder et hautbois baroque), Violaine Cochard (harpsichord), Amélie Michel (traverso), Meillane Wilmotte (recorder and traverso), Alice Piérot (concertante violin), David Plantier (violin I), Alix Boivert (violin II and viola), Laurent Muller-Poblocki (alto), Annabelle Luis (cello), Ludovic Coutineau (doublebasse). ( EVCD 032) * 2018: "Handel – Melodies in Mind" – Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard (recorder), Alice Piérot (violin), Annabelle Luis (cello), Violaine Cochard (harpsichord), Florent Marie (theorbe). Evidence Classics)

References

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