Margaux Blanchard
discovers Baroque music in the course of her training in vocal polyphony and piano playing. She became fascinated by early music through the viola da gamba. Her teachers are Paolo Pandolfo, Jordi Savall and Jérôme Hantaï. In 2009 she receives her diploma at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and is awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize. She plays the repertoire for viola da gamba solo, for consort, chamber music and orchestra. She performs with various ensembles, first of all with Leonardo García Alarcón's Cappella Mediterranea, with whom she recorded four CDs, but also with the ensembles Clematis, Gilles Binchois and Clément Janequin. With her own formation "Les ombres", which she founded together with Sylvain Sartre, she recorded the CDs "Concert chez la reine" and "François Couperin - Les Nations" for the label Ambronay Editions.