Alice Piérot


Alice Piérot is a French Baroque violinist.

Biography

Piérot studied music at the Conservatoire de Lyon. In 1988, she turned to baroque music and became concertmaster of Marc Minkowski's orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre and recorded operas by Rameau, Mondonville and Marais....
She also makes recordings with Jean-Patrice Brosse's ensemble Concerto Rococo, for the Pierre Verany label and Florence Malgoire's Les Nièces de Rameau.
As chamber musician, she participates as a guest in the ensemblme and founds and directs Les Veilleurs de nuit; She is also a member of the Anpapié string trio since its foundation in 2002 and plays in duet with the piano-fortist Aline Zylberajch.
In 2002, she recorded Heinrich Biber's Rosary Sonatas for the Alpha label, a disc which won a Diapason d'or of the year 2003.
In 2004, she entered as first violin in Hervé Niquet's ' ensemble and is a soloist at ' directed by Martin Gester.
Piérot teaches the Baroque violin and an orchestra class at the Aix-en-Provence conservatory. Béatrice Linon is one of her pupils.
In 2002 Alice Piérot invested a former factory near Avignon and transformed it into a vast musical vessel, , which now hosts concerts, residencies, creations and recordings, experimenting with new forms of dissemination and practice of music, from the oldest to the most contemporary.

Discography

In particular, she recorded for the Zig-zag territoires, Opus 111, Verany, Accord and Alpha labels.