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 concertmaster of

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's orchestra, Les Musiciens du LouvreBiographie
on amarillis.fr and recorded operas by Rameau, Mondonville and

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... (issued by

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). She also makes recordings with Jean-Patrice Brosse's

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''Concerto Rococo'', for the

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

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, Rameau, Purcell). As

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

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

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. In 2002, she recorded Heinrich Biber's '' Rosary Sonatas'' 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'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 Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 – Martin Gester, organ (9-13 September 1993, 2CDs Decca/Accord 205322) *

, ''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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;

, harpsichord (21–25 October 2002, Zig Zag Territoires ZZT 030701) *

, ''Testament et Promesses'' – Aline Zylberajch (2012, L’Encelade) *

Heinrich Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( 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 his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Li ...

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

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(contralto);

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Héloïse Gaillard Héloïse (; c. 1100–01? – 16 May 1163–64?), variously Héloïse d'ArgenteuilCharrier, Charlotte. Heloise Dans L'histoire Et Dans la Legende. Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion Quai Malaquais, VI, Paris, 1933 or Héloïse du Oratory of th ...

(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). ( Sony classical 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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