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ANA_Graupner_booklet 3/5/07 4:05 PM Page 10<br />

G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly, harpsichord<br />

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An exceptional musician, G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly expressed her passion for the harpsichord and the<br />

baroque era <strong>in</strong> found<strong>in</strong>g Les Idées heureuses <strong>in</strong> Montreal <strong>in</strong> 1987. She has produced more than<br />

150 concerts and pres<strong>en</strong>ted more than 300 with comm<strong>en</strong>tary as well as programm<strong>in</strong>g various<br />

festivals. G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly has performed with viola da gambist Jay Bernfeld and with harpsichordist<br />

Andreas Staier. In 2007, we will hear her as a soloist with the National Ballet of Canada and <strong>in</strong><br />

recital with viol<strong>in</strong>ist Viktoria Mullova <strong>in</strong> both the United States and Canada. Curr<strong>en</strong>tly she is<br />

conc<strong>en</strong>trat<strong>in</strong>g on her career as harpsichord soloist, on the developm<strong>en</strong>t of the Graupner Project<br />

and on the musical and artistic direction of Les Idées heureuses.<br />

G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly is also a musicologist and has be<strong>en</strong> responsible for the rediscovery of the<br />

harpsichord works of Christoph Graupner, an em<strong>in</strong><strong>en</strong>t contemporary of J. S. Bach. She is also<br />

more and more <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> work<strong>in</strong>g on the imm<strong>en</strong>se body of religious music by this composer<br />

whom she is help<strong>in</strong>g to be made known. Begun <strong>in</strong> February 2001, her musical and musicological<br />

journey <strong>in</strong> dissem<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g the works of this forgott<strong>en</strong> composer has resulted <strong>in</strong> eight CDs on the<br />

<strong>Analekta</strong> label workshops, lectures (giv<strong>en</strong> at the National Conservatories <strong>in</strong> Paris and Lyon,<br />

Regional Conservatories of Metz and Toulon, Musicology Departm<strong>en</strong>t of Nancy and Fribourg),<br />

as well as <strong>in</strong> numerous recitals and concerts with Les Idées heureuses <strong>in</strong> America and Europe.<br />

G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly pres<strong>en</strong>ted a lecture about Graupner at the Festival Musica Antiqua <strong>in</strong> Bruges, <strong>in</strong><br />

summer 2004, and directed with success <strong>in</strong> October 2006 the first European tour of her group,<br />

<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g at the Festival d’Ambronay. In 2007, she will be with the <strong>en</strong>semble at the Utrecht<br />

Festival. She is also prepar<strong>in</strong>g the edition of his harpsichord pieces.<br />

The <strong>in</strong>ternational press reviews have be<strong>en</strong> unanimous <strong>in</strong> recogniz<strong>in</strong>g the importance of<br />

Graupner as well as the great quality and importance of the <strong>in</strong>terpretive and musicological work<br />

of G<strong>en</strong>eviève Soly. Her record<strong>in</strong>gs of Graupner’s music have be<strong>en</strong> selected on several occasions<br />

s<strong>in</strong>ce 2001 as Disc of the month.<br />

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