Béatrice Martin (born 1973) is a French

harpsichordist A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord. Harpsichordists may play as soloists, as accompanists, as chamber musicians, or as members of an orchestra, or some combination of these roles. Solo harpsichordists may play unaccompanied son ...

Life

Born in Annecy, Martin began playing the harpsichord at the age of 6 years old in parallel with dancing. She studied at the

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then

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. She has been a regular harpsichordist with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, for whom she acted as principal assistant. In 2000, she founded the ensemble "Les Folies françoises" with the violinist and conductor Patrick Cohën-Akenine. She is a professor at the

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and has been a guest professor at the

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in New York since 2015. She has recorded about ten CDs, including recordings of Bach's Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019, with Patrick Cohën-Akenine. Her album ''Bach: concertos pour clavecin'' ( BWV 1052, 1053,

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), with "Les Folies françoises", was awarded a

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 ...

in 2016.

Prizes and awards

* 1998: First prize for harpsichord at the MAfestival Brugge. * 1999: Prix Bärenreiter Publishers * 1999: Révélation de l’ADAMI au MIDEM de Cannes.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Béatrice French harpsichordists Conservatoire de Paris alumni People from Annecy 1973 births Living people 21st-century French musicians French performers of early music