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Philippe Pierlot

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Philippe Pierlot (born 1958) is a Belgian viola da gamba player and a conductor in historically informed performance. He is also an academic teacher at the royal conservatories of The Hague and Brussels.

Born in Liège, Pierlot learned to play the recorder, the guitar and the lute at the age of twelve. He studied playing the viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken. In 1980, he founded the ensemble Ricercar Consort, with the violinist François Fernandez and the keyboard player Bernard Foccroulle, focusing on the performance and recording of little-known music in historically informed performance.

Several contemporary compositions were dedicated to him. He also plays the baryton, for which Joseph Haydn composed around 150 works. In 1999, he revived Marais's opera Sémélé, which had not been performed for 300 years, after composing some missing parts.

Until 2006, Pierlot was professor for viola da gamba at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. He has been a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Pierlot led series of recordings such as Deutsche Barockmusik and Deutsche Barockkantaten, recorded the vocal works by Nicolaus Bruhns, the complete works by Matthias Weckmann and the works for viola da gamba by Marin Marais. His recording of three Christmas cantatas by Bach, in an approach with one voice on a part, was commented by a critic: "Pierlot conducts all three cantatas with a beat that pulses with life, and his speeds are judged just right – neither too fast nor too slow."

Source: Article "Philippe Pierlot (violist)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Philippe Pierlot, né à Liège en 1958, est un violiste et chef d'orchestre belge, spécialiste de la musique baroque.

Autodidacte dans le jeu de la guitare et du luth, il a fait ses études de viole auprès de Wieland Kuijken au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. Avec Bernard Foccroulle et le violoniste français François Fernandez, ils fondent en 1980 le Ricercar Consort et plus tard leur propre label sous le même nom. Il interprète notamment le Magnificat de Bach ou les Apothéoses de Couperin.

Pierlot est l'un des rares interprètes jouant du baryton, instrument préféré du prince Nicolas Esterházy, employeur de Joseph Haydn, qui composa environ 150 œuvres pour cet instrument.

Plus de 50 enregistrements d'œuvres baroques de compositeurs, en partie peu connus, ont fait le succès de Pierlot. Il est récompensé en 1998 d'un Diapason d'or pour la gravure de l'intégrale des Trios pour le coucher du roy de Marin Marais. En 2007, Il prend la direction du Collegium Vocale de Gand et du Ricercar Consort pour enregistrer à la Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles la Messe des Morts à quatre voix H.10 de Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Après avoir enseigné au conservatoire de Maastricht et à la Hochschule für Musik à Trossingen, il est actuellement (2010) professeur de viole de gambe au conservatoire royal de La Haye ainsi qu'au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.

En 2012, Il participe à la bande son originale de la série européenne The Spiral.

En 2017, il se voit décerner l'octave "Musiques classiques" en compagnie de l'ensemble Ricercar Consort pour l’interprétation d’œuvres de Biber et d’autres compositeurs du siècle dans «Imitatio».

Source: Article "Philippe Pierlot (violiste)" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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