Céline Frisch (born 1974) is a French

harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

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 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 ...

at the Conservatory of

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

. She moved to Basel to continue her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, 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, an ...

's and

Jesper Bøje Christensen Jesper Bøje Christensen (born 3 December 1944) is a Danish harpsichordist and music researcher, especially in the field of basso continuo. Life Born in Copenhagen, Christensen was a lecturer in historical composition, continuo and performance ...

'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 pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...

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 instr ...

of which she is

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

and plays as a soloist or continuist.Céline Frisch
on Outhere Her recordings, mainly dedicated to Bach, have received numerous critical accolades, including her '' Goldberg Variations'', 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''. In 1996, she was appointed Juventus Laureate of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...

and in 2002, was the first harpsichordist nominated by the

Victoires de la musique classique The Victoires de la musique classique (; en, "Victories of Classical Music") are an annual French classical music award event founded in 1986. The awards are the classical equivalent of the popular music awards Victoires de la Musique and the Victo ...

Discography

* 2000: Pièces de Bach au clavecin, for the label "Les Nouveaux Interprètes" at Harmonia Mundi. * 2001: '' Goldberg Variations'' (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 Jean-Henri d'Anglebert ( baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day. Life D'Anglebert's father Claude Henry known as AnglebertJean const ...

) * 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 * 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'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of in ...

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