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Emmanuelle Haïm
After completing her degree in piano and organ
performance, Emanuelle Haïm took up instruction
in harpsichord performance in the studio of
Kenneth Gilbert and graduated at the top of her
class from the Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique et de Danse in Paris. A fascination
with vocal music induced her to make her first
attempts to lead choral ensembles at the Centre
de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Her talent was
quickly noticed, and Haïm soon began to take
part in projects of well-known artists, both as a
harpsichordist and as a conductor. She achieved
significant success with the Glyndebourne Touring
Opera, leading Handel’s opera Rodelinda in 2001,
as well as his oratorio Theodora two years later. It
is from this moment that her regular collaboration
with the Glyndebourne festival dates (including
C. Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea in
2008). The artist was the first woman to direct
the Chicago Lyric Opera (Handel’s Giulio Cesare,
2007). She has also collaborated with the City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester
Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt and
Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2000, she founded the
ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée, which specializes in
Baroque music performance. In the course of three
years, the ensemble gained the favor of audiences
around the world, from Paris to New York, and its
crowning achievement was the title of ensemble
of the year, granted by the jury of Victoires de la
Musique Classique. Since 2004, Le Concert d’Astrée
has been in residence at the opera theater in Lille,
where it presents concert versions of operatic works.
Emanuelle Haïm has collaborated with such artists
as Robert Carsen, Jean-François Sivadier, Jean-
Louis Martinoty, Robert Wilson, David McVicar,
Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, and Sandrine Anglade. In
2001, she signed an exclusive contract with Virgin
Classics; her albums Lamenti and Carestini received
Victoires de la Musique Classique distinctions
(2008, 2009), and her recording of Purcell’s Dido
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and Aeneas won the Echo Deutscher Musikpreis.
The artist is an honorary member of the Royal
Academy of Music; she has also received the titles
of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and, in 2009,
Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.