Florent Marie
Music has always played an important part in Florent’s family: Singing polyphonic music and having a lute-making father — who built most of his instruments - probably explains why he chose to devote himself to the lute family. At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon he obtained his lute qualifications in Eugène Ferré’s class (2006) and discovered with Jean-Yves Haymoz the techniques of polyphonic improvisation, thus becoming one of the first lutenists to improvise ricercari in public.

Ever since he has involved himself in diverse projects. His field ranges from the theatre with the Ensemble Non Papa or with la Compagnie de Mars — he played the role of Lysander in the play Puck by Marie-Laure Desbordes — to Renaissance dances with Compagnie de Maître Guillaume, not to mention songs with Lidia Pujol or slam with Kwal. His most eclectic experience was the production entitled Orphée with the Montalvo-Hervieu company at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, in which he improvised on the theorbo to accompany hip-hop and Baroque dancing, touring many countries. Furthermore he collaborates regularly with different specialized European ensembles: Ensemble Céladon, Collegium Vocale Gent, les Traversées Baroques, la Douce Semblance, Ensemble Correspondances, le Baroque Nomade, le Banquet Céleste, les Folies Françoises, Armonica Stanza, Contrapposto, Son ar Mein, Doulce Mémoire…