Bruno Boterf is a contemporary French

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, specialising in

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and

early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750) or Ancient music (before 500 AD). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad Dates of classical ...

Biography

Boterf began his career within the and the Groupe Vocal de France before joining the

Ensemble Clément Janequin The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque. The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse. The group has recorded almost excl ...

of which he was a member until 2007. Holder of the Certificate of Aptitude for Ancient Music, Boterf has taught at the RRC of Tours, the

Royal Conservatory of Liège The Royal Conservatory of Liège (RCL) () is a historic conservatory in Liège, Belgium. It is one of four conservatories in the French Community of Belgium that offers higher education courses in music and theatre. Located at 29 Piercot Forgeu ...

and the

Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon The Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (; "Lyon National Superior Conservatory of Dance and Music"; CNSMDL), often simply the Conservatoire de Lyon, is a conservatory for the study of music and dance, located in Lyon ...

where he has been a singing teacher specialized in early music. He regularly teaches courses and

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es on singing and

Renaissance music Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ''ars nova'', the mus ...

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...

at conservatories and polyphonic centres. He is regularly called upon to lead projects involving singers and instrumentalists in the pre-baroque and baroque repertoire (sacred music by Henry Du Mont with the choir of Namur, motets and psalms by

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, Vespers by

Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considere ...

Bach's cantatas This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions. Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for ...

and Mass in B minor). This pedagogical practice led him to create the Ensemble Ludus Modalis, made up of a dozen singers ''

A capella Music performed a cappella ( , , ; ), less commonly spelled acapella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Rena ...

'', whose repertoire mainly covers the period of sacred music from the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Boterf has recorded many disks both for the following companies

Harmonia Mundi Harmonia Mundi is a record label that specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label). It was founded in France in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of PIAS Entertainment Group, which is itself owned by Universal M ...

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Erato Records Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 as Erato Disques S.A. by Philippe Loury to promote French classical music. Loury was head of éditions musicales Costallat. His first releases in France were licensed from the Haydn Society of Bo ...

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

Auvidis Auvidis was a record label founded in 1976 by Louis Bricard. Along with its subsidiaries, it was acquired in 1998 by Naïve Records. During its existence, Auvidis acquired a number of subsidiary labels, such as Unidisc; the traditional and world ...

and

Ramée Outhere Music is a Belgian classical music and jazz publisher, directed by Charles Adriaenssen, which owns several formerly independent labels, many of them boutique early music specialists: * Fuga Libera, a Belgian label founded in 2004 under t ...

with the Ensemble Ludus Modalis and also

Ricercar A ricercar ( , ) or ricercare ( , ) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term ''ricercar'' derives from the Italian verb , which means "to search out; to seek"; many ricercars serve a preludial func ...

for the first two components of an Henry Du Mont (1610-1684) project.

Selected discography

;With A Doi tenori (and Gilles Ragon) * 1999:

Giacomo Carissimi (Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (; baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the ...

and

Girolamo Frescobaldi Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (; also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of ke ...

: ''Duetti da chiesa nella Roma del Primo seicento'' (Label: L'empreinte digitale) ;With

Akadêmia Akadêmia is a French early music ensemble founded in 1986 by conductor Françoise Lasserre. The initial group of singers were formed from members of Philippe Herreweghe's Chapelle Royale. The ensemble are frequent artists at France's major e ...

* 1991:

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string instrument, string player. A composer of both Secular music, secular and Church music, sacred music, and a pioneer ...

: ''Vespro della beata vergine'' * 1993:

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading op ...

: ''Missa pro defunctis'' * 1994:

Palestrina Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; , ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon ...

: ''Vergine bella: motets et madrigaux'' ;With the Ensemble Clément-Janequin at

* 1984:

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque music, Baroque composer and organ (music), organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of ...

: '' the Seven Last Words'' * 1988:

Clément Janequin Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy, was hugely influential in the development o ...

: ''la Chasse et autres chansons'' * 1988:

Josquin Desprez Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

: ''Chansons'' * 1989:

Pierre de La Rue Pierre de la Rue ( – 20 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as various forms of de Platea, de Robore, or de Vic ...

: ''Messe L'homme armé - Requiem'' * 1992:

Roland de Lassus Orlando di Lasso ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierlui ...

: ''Chansons'' * 1994: ''Une fête chez Rabelais'' * 1994: ''Chansons sur des poèmes de Ronsard'' * 2000: ''Psaumes et chansons de la Réforme'' * 2003:

Antoine Brumel Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish School, Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance music, Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of t ...

: ''Messe et ecce terrae motus'' ;With Les Arts florissants * 1990: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: ''

Le Malade imaginaire ''The Imaginary Invalid'', ''The Hypochondriac'', or ''The Would-Be Invalid'' ( French title ''Le Malade imaginaire'', ) is a three- act ''comédie-ballet'' by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes ( H.495, H ...

'' ;With

Georges Guillard Georges Guillard (born 19 May 1939) is a French organist, former holder of the Great Organ of the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church in Paris. Life Born in Saint-Just-la-Pendue, Guillard was for a long time the holder of the Grandes Orgues d ...

* 1996:

Jehan Alain Jehan-Ariste Paul Alain (; 3 February 1911 – 20 June 1940) was a French organist, composer, and soldier. Born into a family of musicians, he learned the organ from his father and a host of other teachers, becoming a composer at 18, and compos ...

, vocal and instrumental works (vol. 2) (ARION, ARN 68321). Orphée d’Or, Grand Prix de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique 1996 ;With the

Chœur de chambre de Namur The Choeur de Chambre de Namur (founded 1987) is a choir based in Namur, which is sponsored by the Communauté française de Belgique. Since 2010 the artistic director has been Leonardo García Alarcón and conductor of the instrumental ensemble i ...

as musical director * 2009: Henry Du Mont: ''Cantica sacra ''( Label Ricercar) * 2011: Henry Du Mont: ''Pour les Dames religieuses ''(Label Ricercar) ;With the

direction

Jean Tubéry Jean Tubéry (1964 born in Toulouse) is a French player of the cornett (''cornetto'') and conductor. He is noted for being, along with his own teacher Bruce Dickey and his colleague Jean-Pierre Canihac, one of the main cornett players to resurrect ...

* 2008: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: ''

Te Deum The ( or , ; from its incipit, ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to a date before AD 500, but perhaps with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin ...

'' ;With

Les Sacqueboutiers Les Sacqueboutiers, formerly Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse, are French early music wind and brass ensemble founded in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu at Toulouse. They play the cornet à bouquin and the sackbut, with other instr ...

of Toulouse * 1997:

Giovanni Martino Cesare Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 in Udine – 6 February 1667 in Munich) was a composer and cornett player.A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music - Page 108 Stewart Carter, Jeffery Kite-Powell - 2012 "At the Bavarian court in Munich ...

: ''Musicali Melodie'' (Label Accord) ;With the

William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continental Europe, Continent. He i ...

's European ensemble, direction

Graham Reilly Graham Reilly is a British composer, known for composing television music in the UK, Europe and US. Based in his HQ Studio, Reilly has scored the music to over 1000 hours of prime time TV and Film productions in the US, UK and Europe, for all t ...

* 2007: Giacomo Carissimi : ''Jephte Music in Roma circa 1640'' (Label: Passacaille) ;With the orchestre Les Passions direction Jean Marc Andrieu * 2008: Jean Gilles: ''Requiem'' (Label Ligia Digital) * 2010: Jean Gilles : ''Lamentations'' (Label Ligia Digital) ;With the Ensemble Ludus Modalis direction Bruno Boterf * 2004: An improvised mass: ''Une messe pour la Saint-Michel et tous les saints anges'' with Freddy EichelbergerFreddy Eichelberger
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Michel Godard Michel Godard (born October 3, 1960, Héricourt, France) is a French avant-garde jazz and classical musician. He plays tuba and the predecessor of the tuba, a brass instrument known as the serpent. Career At 18, Godard was a member of the Phi ...

. (Label: Alpha) * 2007: Paschal de L'Estocart: ''Sacrae Cantiones'': songs, ode, psalms and

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the Eng ...

s from 3 to 7 voices

Diapason d'or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

(Ramée) * 2010:

Claude Le Jeune Claude Le Jeune (; 1528 to 1530 – buried 26 September 1600) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as '' musique mesurée'', and a significant composer of the "P ...

: ''Dix Psaumes de David de 1564'' Diapason d'or (March 2011) (Ramée) * 2011:

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de V ...

: ''Stabat mater '' * 2011:

: ''Biographie Musicale Année de Jeunesse'' (Label: Musique en Wallonie) * 2013:

Guillaume Costeley Guillaume Costeley ronounced Cotelay(1530, possibly 1531 – 28 January 1606) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the court organist to Charles IX of France and famous for his numerous ''chansons'', which were representative of the ...

: ''Mignonne allons voir si la rose ''(Ramée)

References

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