Lucile Boulanger

Lucile Boulanger began her first viola da gamba lessons at the age of five with Christine Plubeau. She continued her studies with Ariane Maurette, Jérôme Hantaï and Christophe Coin at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She has won many prizes at prestigious international competitions. Greatly in demand as a chamber music artist, she has performed and also recorded with Philippe Pierlot, François Lazarevitch, Justin Taylor, Alice Piérot, L’Achéron (ensemble directed by François Joubert-Caillet) and many others. She regularly performs with larger ensembles such as Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), Vox Luminis (Lionel Meunier) and Les Epopées (Stéphane Fuget). She gives frequent solo recitals in France and elsewhere. Her two duo recordings for the Alpha label with Arnaud De Pasquale at the keyboard (a Bach Sonata album in 2012 and works by Bach and Graun in 2015) have been widely acclaimed. The BBC Music Magazine summed up the Forqueray CD with the word “irresistible”, comparing its sense of freedom in performance to that of Jacqueline du Pré. Lucile Boulanger aims at expanding and emancipating her instrument’s repertoire, not only through transcriptions, but also by commissioning contemporary works.