Alice Piérot
Alice Piérot is a French Baroque violinist.
Biography
Piérot studied music at the Conservatoire de Lyon. In 1988, she turned to baroque music and became concertmaster of Marc Minkowski's orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre and recorded operas by Rameau, Mondonville and Marais....She also makes recordings with Jean-Patrice Brosse's ensemble Concerto Rococo, for the Pierre Verany label and Florence Malgoire's Les Nièces de Rameau.
As chamber musician, she participates as a guest in the ensemblme and founds and directs Les Veilleurs de nuit; She is also a member of the Anpapié string trio since its foundation in 2002 and plays in duet with the piano-fortist Aline Zylberajch.
In 2002, she recorded Heinrich Biber's Rosary Sonatas for the Alpha label, a disc which won a Diapason d'or 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 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, , 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, Accord and Alpha labels.- Bach's Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 – Martin Gester, organ
- CPE Bach, Sanguineus et Melancholicus: Sonates en trio Wq 146, 147, 148, 161 – Les Nièces de Rameau: Florence Malgoire, violin; Alice Piérot, violin; Marianne Muller, viol; Aline Zylberajch, harpsichord
- CPE Bach, Testament et Promesses – Aline Zylberajch
- Heinrich Biber – Les Veilleurs de Nuit: Alice Piérot, violin and conducting; Marianne Müller, viol; Pascal Monteilhet, theorbo; Elisabeth Geiger, claviorganum
- Blondeau's Quatuors d'après les sonates de Beethoven – Ad Fontes Quartet: Alice Piérot and Enrico Parizzi, violins; Monica Ehrsam, viola; Reto Cuonz, cello
- Leclair, Récréations de musique pour 2 violons & basse continue – Les Nièces de Rameau: Marianne Muller, Florence Malgoire, Claire Giardelli, Aline Zylberach
- Purcell, Trio Sonatas in three & four parts – Les Nièces de Rameau: Florence Malgoire, Alice Piérot, Claire Giardelli, Marianne Muller, Aline Zylberajch
- Rameau, Concert harpsichord pieces – Les Nièces de Rameau: Florence Malgoire and Alice Piérot ; Marianne Muller ; Aline Zylberajch
- Schobert, Trios with harpsichord – Jean-Patrice Brosse, harpsichord
With the Amarillis ensemble
- 2011: Ferveur et Extase – Stéphanie d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano; Amarillis; Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
- 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
- 2015: Antoine Dauvergne & Gérard Pesson – Les Troqueurs and La Double Coquette – Jaël Azzaretti, Isabelle Poulenard; Héloïse Gaillard
- 2016: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater – Sonya Yoncheva and Karine Deshayes ; Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard, Alice Piérot, Sandrine Dupé, Louis Créac'h, Olivier Briand, Diana Lee, Koji Yoda, Fanny Paccoud, Laurent Muller, Annabelle Luis, Frédéric Baldassare, Gautier Blondel, Bruno Helstroffer.
- 2017: Effervescence concertante – Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard, Amélie Michel, Meillane Wilmotte, Alice Piérot, David Plantier, Alix Boivert, Laurent Muller-Poblocki, Annabelle Luis, Ludovic Coutineau.
- 2018: "Handel – Melodies in Mind" – Amarillis: Héloïse Gaillard, Alice Piérot, Annabelle Luis, Violaine Cochard, Florent Marie