Lucile Richardot & Philippe Grisvard
Biography Lucile Richardot & Philippe Grisvard
Lucile Richardot
Until the age of 27, the French mezzo-soprano Lucille Richardot worked as a journalist. She completed her musical education in 2008 as Maîtrise de Notre-Dame and in 2011 with a diploma in early music at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. In 2012 she founded her own ensemble Tictactus, but she also performs with other formations, such as Solistes XXI and Rachid Safir, Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, and Les Arts Florissants. Lucille Richardot also interprets new music and participated in the world premiere of Philippe Boesmans' opera Yvonne at the Opéra Garnier in Paris; at the Festival d'Automne she performed Nono's Omaggio a Kurtág with the Ensemble intercontemporain. In spring 2017 she presented Vivaldi's Arsilda with the Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks in Bratislava, Lille, Caen, Luxembourg and Versailles.
Philippe Grisvard
Described as a harpsichordist and fortepianist with “iron hands in velvet gloves” (Diapason), Philippe Grisvard has established himself as one of today’s leading experts in historical keyboards. He was born in Nancy and studied piano and oboe before becoming interested in Early Music. After harpsichord lessons with Anne-Catherine Bücher, Philippe studied at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis with Jesper B. Christensen (harpsichord and basso continuo) and with Edoardo Torbianelli (fortepiano). Subsequently, he collaborated with various ensembles such as L’Achéron, La Fenice, Scherzi Musicali, Les Ombres…
Invited by period orchestras (Le Concert d'Astrée, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Freiburger Barockorchester, among others) he regularly collaborates with conductors such as Emmanuelle Haïm, René Jacobs and Sir Simon Rattle and participated in opera productions at the Paris Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille.
Philippe is the principal harpsichordist of Ensemble Diderot, where he shows time and again his creative continuo skills that “amplify and colour the entire ensemble” (Diapason). He participated in more than 60 recordings for labels such as Ricercar, Virgin, harmonia mundi, Eloquentia, Accent, Linn records and Audax. In his solo albums for Audax Records (works by G.F. Handel C.F.C. Fasch) he presents the fruits of his musicological research.
