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Pascal Bertin
At age 11, Pascal Bertin entered the Paris boys’ choir
led by Roger de Magnée. In 1988, he won 1 st Prize
for interpretation of Baroque vocal music at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et
de Danse in Paris. The artist has been a member
of vocal ensembles specializing in performance
of medieval music and Renaissance polyphony.
He has had the opportunity to perform under
the direction of Christophe Rousset (in operas by
G. F. Handel: Richard the First – as Oronte, Rinaldo
– Eustazio, Admetus – Trasimede); Marc Minkowski
(Tolomeo in Handel’s Julius Caesar in Amsterdam,
2001); Jordi Savall, Philippe Herreweghe, Sir John
Eliot Gardiner, Sigiswald Kuijken, Hervé Niquet
and their ensembles. Since 1996, together with
Monique Zanetti, Yasunori Imamura and Guido
Ballestraccim, he has been part of the Fons Musicae
ensemble; their first recordings (Lambert, Bononcini,
Steffani, Caldara) have met with the recognition of
music critics all over the world. The recordings of
the jazz vocal ensemble Indigo, founded by Bertin
ten years earlier, have been nominated three times
for the Victoires de la Musique award. The artist
has taken part in the recording of nearly 50 works
from various eras; in 1995, together with Andreas
Scholl and Dominique Visse, he recorded the disc
Les Trois Contre-Ténors for Harmonia Mundi. It
contains famous tenor opera and musical arias, as
well as popular music hits.
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Photo: From the artist’s archives