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Artist Biography
Early music specialist Valentin Tournet is a rising figure in the late 2010s and early 2020s decades on the early music scene, both as a viola da gamba player and as conductor of La Chapelle Harmonique. With that group, he has developed an ongoing relationship with the Palace of Versailles. In 2017, while still a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, Tournet established La Chapelle Harmonique. Immediately successful, it was chosen by the Friends of Royal Opera organization to perform the St. John Passion, BWV 245, of Bach at the royal chapel at Versailles Palace in March of 2017. Tournet led the "Christmas" version of Bach's Magnificat, the Magnificat de la Nativité, BWV 243a, on a 2019 recording. In 2022, Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique released a recording of Rameau's rarely heard comic opera Les Paladins.
Hometown
La Garenne-Colombes, France
Genre
Classical