Stephanie Paulet & Elisabeth Geiger
Biography Stephanie Paulet & Elisabeth Geiger
Aliquando
Created at the instigation of Stéphanie Paulet, (1st violin, musical direction, research), the ensemble Aliquando was born of the desire to bring back to life today the beauty of the music of the past. He has brought together artistes with solidly established reputations, each committed to an active, individual musical approach. Aliquando is thus the natural focal point of an ensemble of musicians wishing to explore, amongst other things, the immense variety of the French musical heritage of the eighteenth century.
A flexible formation of variable composition, it unites artistes with solidly established reputations, each committed to an active, individual musical approach.
Aliquando, turned towards research and the valorisation of music that has been too often neglected, does not exclude composers who have by now achieved recognition. It can cope as well with the reduced groupings suitable for chamber music as for more substantial formations.
Stephanie Paulet
First violin of the Insula Orchestra conducted by Laurence Equilbey, a group performing throughout France and abroad on historic instruments, Stéphanie PAULET regularly appears in recitals and in chamber music concerts alongside faithful partners. After three first prizes at the Paris Conservatory she travelled throughout Europe and Asia as a modern violinist with the piano trio Pantoum, and in orchestras conducted by Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haïtink. She then undertook a historical examination of the baroque and classical repertories. For ten years she was the first violin of many baroque ensembles in Paris including Il Seminario Musicale, Les Talens Lyriques, and the Concert d’Astrée.
In 2012 she founded the ensemble Aliquando in order to revive the beauty of earlier music and in particular of the baroque period, and also to champion on stage their ever lively and vivid character. A first disc, Amusements, devoted to Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, released by muso, was rewarded with a ‘Five’ from Diapason, a ‘Five’ from Muse Baroque, and was lauded by the BBC Music Magazine.
Preoccupied with precision of play as much as by musical research, she is also greatly interested in crossovers with other forms of expression and has written two shows for Aliquando: La leçon de musique ou la machine à couleurs in 2012, based on texts of Diderot and on music for solo violin, and Le poète et le chansonnier, a show premiered in March 2015 for the Maison de Chateaubriand alongside Daniel Isoir, pianofortist, and Arnaud Marzorati, singer and reciter.
The holder of a teaching certificate (CA) for the violin, she has found particular pleasure in seeking to transmit and teach the baroque violin at the Hochschule of Bremen in Germany since 2011, as well as at the conservatories of Saint-Maur and Versailles since 2014.
In 2014 she was appointed ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’.
