SAMUEL HENGEBAERT - violoncello da spalla, artistic direction

Curious and eclectic artist, Samuel Hengebaert spallist and violist is a musician eager to meet and share. After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, he definitely turned to early music by continuing his studies at the Cnsmd in Paris. Since then, he has played all over the world in major baroque music ensembles such as the Correspondances ensemble, the Talens Lyriques, the Folies Françoises, Akademie für Alte Musik, Insula Orchestra, Orchester Nord, La Chapelle Rhenane, etc. Alongside his orchestral activities, he defends a more intimate, chamber music repertoire and engages in ensembles such as the Flying Squadron of the Queen, or the Desmarest Ensemble and is invited to many festivals (Chaise-Dieu, Saintes , Aix en Provence, Montpellier-Radio-France, Ambronay, Barokkfest in Trondheim, Tokyo cityhall, Carnegie Hall..... )

Samuel is regularly invited to participate in numerous programs on France Musique, RSR and SWR. His meeting in 2010 with Sigiswald Kuijken is decisive and will allow him to discover the Violoncello da Spalla, an instrument rediscovered in 2005, an instrument for which Samuel Hengebaert is passionate and which he decides to put at the center of his work. A rare instrument, it allowed him to discover the cello repertoire which he played in recital with harpsichordist Ronan Khalil.

Samuel Hengebaert plays a spalla by Jean-Paul Boury made for him in 2016.

JOSEPHE COTTET - violin

After a DEM and a modern viola improvement prize at the CRR of Versailles in the class of Jacques Borsarello, Josèphe Cottet continued her studies at the CRR of Aubervilliers-la Courneuve in the class of Hélène Houzel in baroque violin and viola where she gets a DNSPM. She completes her instrumental training with master classes with Odile Edouard, Patrick Bismuth, Amandine Beyer and Enrico Onofri. She then specialized in early music and played in various orchestral formations such as the Pygmalion ensemble (Bach's Mass in B, Dardanus and Hippolyte and Aricie by Rameau...), the Musicians of Paradise (Venus and Adonis by John Blow), the Parliament of Music of Strasbourg, Opera Fuoco, the Shadows, the Correspondances ensemble…

A wide practice of chamber music allows her to approach very different repertoires: Renaissance music with "La Bande de violon" and the Compagnie Outre Mesure with which she records, the Baroque repertoire thanks to the Flying Squadron of the Queen, of which she is the co-founder since 2012, and later styles, classical and romantic with Les Curiosités Esthétiques.

She participated twice in the Academy of Ambronay; in 2010 under the direction of Hervé Niquet for Les Indes Dansantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, then in 2011, under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken. Thanks to this project, she enriches her orchestral practice by playing the basso continuo part of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B on the violoncello da spalla.

Passionate about research in musicology, she studied ancient music up to a Master's degree at the Sorbonne.

LUCILE RICHARDOT - mezzo-soprano

After a childhood at the Petits Chanteurs at the Croix de Lorraine in Epinal, her "humanities" in classical hypokhâgne and khâgne and a first life as a journalist, she began her studies at the conservatory of the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Graduated in 2008 from the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris then from the CRR de Paris in early music in 2011, she founded her ensemble, Tictactus, the following year with two theorbist friends. She sings regularly with the Soloists XXI, Correspondances, Pygmalion, Sequenza 9.3 and with Les Arts Florissants for the complete madrigals of Monteverdi conducted by Paul Agnew. She also gives recitals with Jean-Luc Ho and Denis Chevallier. In 2007, she joined Poème Harmonique pour Cadmus et Hermione, by Lully. In 2009, she created the role of the 1st Aunt in Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy. Under the aegis of violinist Olivier Briand, in 2016 it offered a recital of cantatas by Vivaldi and Caldara. She is also the 3rd Grace in L'Orfeo de Rossi restored by Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion. 2017 was placed under a double Italian patronage of opera masters for the role of Lisea in Vivaldi's opera Arsilda, then with the Monteverdi Choir for its world tour of Monteverdi's three operas. His projects for 2018 include the role of Goffredo in Rinaldo by Handel, the Sorceress and Spirit in another Dido and Aeneas and the release of his first solo album on Harmonia Mundi, with the complicity of Sébastien Daucé, and after having lent his support, since childhood, to about forty recordings.

BRICE SAILLY - harpsichord

Brice Sailly performs as a soloist and in recital during the Folles Journées de Nantes, at La Roque d'Anthéron, at the Saint-Riquier Festival, at the Salle Gaveau (Paris), in Lausanne, at the Château de Versailles, at the Musée des Beaux -Arts of Chartres, Rome, Reykjavik and Tokyo. Holder of the Certificat d'Aptitude, he teaches harpsichord at the CRR in Rueil-Malmaison. He recently founded his ensemble, La Chambre Claire, with which he recorded a program dedicated to François Couperin for the Ricercar-Outhere label (Choc de Classica, 5 Diapasons). Alongside Stephanie de Failly, he co-directs Clematis, an ensemble specializing in 17th century repertoires. Open to other musical fields, Brice Sailly is a founding member of the Franco-Icelandic musical creation group Süsser Trost and has collaborated with BOX, Efterklang, Murcof and Marion June. A sought-after continuator, Brice Sailly collaborates with many ensembles: Collegium Vocale de Ghent (Philippe Herreweghe), Le Caravansérail (Bertrand Cuiller), Pulcinella (Ophélie Gaillard), Il Seminario Musicale (Gérard Lesne), Les Paladins (Jérôme Corréas), Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse, Notturna (Christopher Palameta), Les Accents (Thibaut Noally), Les Ombres (Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre). After following the teaching of Elisabeth Joyé, he trained at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris with Olivier Baumont, Blandine Rannou and Kenneth Weiss. He deepened his knowledge by meeting personalities such as Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé and Fabio Bonizzoni.
In 2021 they release the disc Mr Couperin rewarded with a diapason d'or.