Céline Frisch (born 1974) is a French

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

ist.

Life

Born in Marseille, Frisch began studying the

at the age of six. In 1992 she received her first prizes in harpsichord and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

at the Conservatory of

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

. She moved to Basel to continue her studies at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that hav ...

, in

Andreas Staier Andreas Staier (born 13 September 1955 in Göttingen) is a German pianist and harpsichordist. Life Staier studied piano and harpsichord in the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and Amsterdam. He studied piano with Kurt Bauer and Erika Haase, a ...

's and Jesper Bøje Christensen's classes, where she obtained the soloist diploma ''cum laude''. She also studied the

pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...

with

Louis Thiry Louis Henry Nicolas Thiry (15 February 1935 Café Zimmermann The Café Zimmermann, or , was the coffeehouse of Gottfried Zimmermann in Leipzig which formed the backdrop to the first performances of many of Bach's secular cantatas, e.g. the ''Coffee Cantata'' ('' Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht''), and in ...

of which she is

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...

and plays as a soloist or continuist.Céline Frisch
on Outhere Her recordings, mainly dedicated to

Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or ...

, have received numerous critical accolades, including her ''

Goldberg Variations The ''Goldberg Variations'' (), BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of thirty variations. First published in 1741, it is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may ...

'', recorded in part with the Café Zimmermann, which received the

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 ...

of the year 2002 and the 2001 "Choc de l'année" of ''

Le Monde de la musique ''Le Monde de la musique'' was a French monthly musical magazine published from 1978 to 2009 with a circulation of 20,000 copies in 2008. It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama'' at the initiative of Jean-Michel Croissandeau, in c ...

''. In 1996, she was appointed Juventus Laureate of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...

and in 2002, was the first harpsichordist nominated by the Victoires de la musique classique.

Discography

* 2000: Pièces de Bach au clavecin, for the label "Les Nouveaux Interprètes" at

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 ...

. * 2001: ''

'' (Bach), at Alpha. * 2001: ''Sonates pour viole de gambe et clavecin'' (Bach) with Juan Manuel Quintana, at Harmonia Mundi. * 2001: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instruments'' (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2002: ''Six concerto en 7 parties'' d'Avison with the Café Zimmermann * 2003: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instrument'' vol II, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2003: ''Sonates pour violon et clavecin'' (Bach) with Pablo Valetti * 2004: ''Pièces de clavecin et airs d'après M. de Lully'' ( Jean-Henri d'Anglebert) * 2005: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instrument'' vol III, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2007: ''Cantates profanes'' (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann conducted by

Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments. Leo ...

* 2008: ''Pièces de clavecin'' 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 ...

* 2009: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instruments'' vol IV, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2009: ''cantates et concertos comiques français'' with the Café Zimmermann and Dominique Visse (works by Corrette, La Garde, Racot de Grandval, Marais, Courbois) * 2010: ''Aux sources du jeune Bach'', harpsichord recital (Bach, Froberger, Kerll, Buxtehude et Reincken) * 2011: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instruments'', vol V, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2012: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instruments'', vol VI, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann * 2012: ''Concerts avec plusieurs instruments'', coffret vol I à VI, (Bach) with the Café Zimmermann *2019: ''

The Well-Tempered Clavier ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time ''clavier'' referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, ...

Book II,'' (Bach), CD Alpha Diapason d’or

References

External links

Official websiteEensemble Café Zimmermann official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frisch, Celine French harpsichordists 1974 births Living people Musicians from Marseille