Emmanuelle Haim
Emmanuelle Haïm (born May 11, 1962 in Paris ) is a French harpsichordist and conductor .
Life
Emmanuelle Haïm began her pianist training at the Conservatoire de Paris , with Yvonne Lefébure , with André Isoir for organ, and later with Kenneth Gilbert and Christophe Rousset for harpsichord and figured bass . She completed her studies with a total of five “first prizes” and one “second prize”. Shortly after starting her studies, she discovered her inclination for historical performance practice .
Emmanuelle Haïm has long been a continuo player and musical assistant in the ensemble Les Arts Florissants by William Christie . On his recommendation, she became Sir Simon Rattle's assistant .
After a few years she left Les Arts Florissants to become a conductor. In 2000 she founded her own baroque ensemble, Le Concert d'Astrée , which is a successful guest in major European cities. She has performed with her ensemble, for example, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Barbican Center .
Haïm achieved artistic recognition in 2001 with her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera with Georg Friedrich Handel's Rodelinda . In 2004 she became resident conductor at the Lille Opera House . She returned to Glyndebourne in 2006 to conduct the opera Giulio Cesare . In 2008 she made her debut in the Berlin Philharmonic with Handel's Ode in honor of St. Cäcilia .
On June 23, 2011, she conducted a concert by the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Berlin Philharmonie with works by Handel and Jean-Philippe Rameau . On October 18, 2019, she again conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker there with works by Henry Purcell and Georg Friedrich Handel , with the participation of the soloists Lucy Crowe (soprano) and Florian Sempey (baritone).
Emmanuelle Haïm works closely with the singer Natalie Dessay , and regularly with Ian Bostridge , Philippe Jaroussky , Sara Mingardo and others.
Her discography with Le Concert d'Astrée includes Handel duets (2000, with Natalie Dessay and Véronique Gens , among others ), Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , (2003, with Susan Graham and Ian Bostridge ), Monteverdi's Orfeo (2003, with Ian Bostridge and Patrizia Ciofi ), a CD of Handel soprano cantatas (with Natalie Dessay, 2005), Monteverdi's Combattimento (2006, with Rolando Villazón ) and Handel's Trionfo del Tempo (2007, again with Natalie Dessay). The CD Lamenti was awarded as the best recording of 2009 in the French classical music competition.
literature
- Marie-Aude Roux: La femme baroque . Le Monde , March 18, 2010, p. 19
- Emmanuelle Haïm , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 47/2011 from November 22, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Emmanuelle Haïm's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sound carrier by Emmanuelle Haïm in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Le Concert d'Astrée
- Charm and lightness: Opera Festival in November; This has never happened before in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (music magazine Crescendo)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haim, Emmanuelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French harpsichordist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |