Camille Delaforge, Marie Perbost, Florie Valiquette, Anna Reinhold, Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal
Biography Camille Delaforge, Marie Perbost, Florie Valiquette, Anna Reinhold, Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal
Camille Delaforge
Keyboardist, vocal leader and orchestra conductor, Camille Delaforge began her artistic apprenticeship with dance and the piano and discovered, through improvisation and playing the harpsichord, a passion for early music. She trained at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and quickly specialized in vocal repertoires through conducting, working as a vocal conductor and practicing the lied and melody repertoire in recital with singers.
She has collaborated for many years with numerous ensembles such as Le Poème Harmonique, Le Concert de la Loge and Orfeo 55 and has performed, among others, at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, at the Zariadye Hall in Moscow, at the Philipszaal in The Hague, at the Wigmore Hall in London, at the Salzburger Festspiele, at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, with programs such as Couperin's Lessons of Darkness as well as “Heroes from the shadows”, “Prima donna” and “Quella fiamma”, recorded at Erato and Warner Music; As a conductor, she notably conducts an opera at the Sablé Festival and has also been invited to work with several orchestras, notably the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cannes Orchestra, when they tackle the repertoire baroque.
Camille Delaforge founded the Il Caravaggio Ensemble in 2017, which quickly became a new player in the French baroque landscape. Hailed by critics in France and abroad through his first disc “Madonna della Grazia”, a disc dedicated to learned and popular music in Italy in the 17th century published by Klarthe Record, Il Caravaggio is committed to defending lyrical repertoires French and Italian on period instruments. The ensemble quickly distinguished itself by its ease in bringing out new and research repertoires, working on the theatricality of its concerts to bring together classical music and the notion of popular music. Il Caravaggio is in residence at the Baroque Music Center of Versailles, at the Polignac Foundation and soon at the Pontoise Festival. Passionate about the voice, Camille Delaforge helps to bring out young opera singers and performs, alongside her ensemble at the Festival de Sablé, Festival Radio France (Montpellier), Potager du Roi (Versailles) at the Oude Musiek Festival (Utrecht), at the Rosa Bonheur festival, Agapé Festival (Geneva), etc.
Eclectic in her musical projects, Camille Delaforge founded a duo with the French bass-baritone Guilhem Worms, with whom she developed several programs of chamber music on harpsichord and piano such as Mozart and Salieri (4-hand piano with Karolos Zouganelis), La Dame de mes Songes (Franco-Spanish repertoire from the 20th century), Near my heart (French melodies).
She records for the Warner, Klarthe, Versailles Spectacles and Alpha labels. Several records are in preparation for its 2022 season.
Concerned about developing socio-cultural exchanges through music teaching, she organizes humanitarian projects. In this context, she taught the most disadvantaged children in Ecuador and continues to develop cultural mediation projects as part of her ensemble (Rosa Musica, a concert for disabled audiences - 2021, “Volez Zéphyrs” for professional integration young instrumentalists).
