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Hailing from a family of musicians, French Soprano Marie Perbost's first musical experiences date to her time with the Maîtrise de Radio-France, singing concerts at home and abroad under the batons of renowned conductors such as Kurt Masur and Myung-Whun Chung. She obtained her Licence as Lyrical Artist in History of Art and Archeology (2007-2010) and License in Musicology (2010-2012) from from Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her musical education continued at the Paris Conservatoire with Alain Buet and Cécile de Boever, graduating with Master of Music degree in lyrical singing (2012-2017). She also attended Mozart master-class with Felicity Lott (October 2018). For the 2017-2018 season, she is a member of Paris National Opera Bastille opera studio. She is selected by the prestigious Salzbourg Festival (2018) and Festival d'Aix (2019) academies. Since 2012, she is a beneficiary of a scholarship from the Rhine’s Gold Foundation (a subsidiary of the Fondation de France), the Meyer Foundation, as well as the Kriegelstein Foundation.
Marie Perbost took a keen interest in the repertoire of Lied and French melody thanks to the inspiring teaching of Anne le Bozec. With her perennial pianist and dear friend Josephine Ambroselli, she won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition as well as prizes at the International Seasons of the Voice competition in Gordes in October 2014 and the 2013 International Lied Competition in Enschende, The Netherlands.
Singer and actress, Marie Perbost has played a diverse smattering of opera and operetta roles such as Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Opera de Tours, February 2019), Marzelline in L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio (Theatre Robert Devos Tourcoing, December 2018) Blanche de la Force in Francis Poulenc's Le Dialogue des Carmélites, Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Die junge Frau in Boesman’s Reigen and Elisetta in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. She won a prize from the Centre Français de Promotion Lyrique given by Raymond Duffaut at the Avignon Opera Competition and finalist (fourth- place) at the International Geneva Competition in 2016. She was flagged as a 2016 Rising Star by the ADAMI, France’s performers’ rights organization. Marie was also selected as a Victoire de la Musique Revelation in 2018.
As a soloist, Marie Perbost has caught the eye of many respected conductors and large productions such as Lionel Sow’s interpretation of the Neues Liebeslieder Walzer by Johannes Brahms at the Paris Philharmonic, Emmanuelle Haïm's concert at Paris’s Invalides, or Philippe Pierlot’s version of J.S. Bach’s Saint John’s Passion (BWV 245) at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. She has also been invited as a soloist at Nantes’s Folles Journées festival, the Froville festival, the Mozart festival, Versailles’s Royal Chapel, Paris’s Péniche Opéra, the Perigord noir festival, Le festival de la Vézère, the Pablo Casals festival and numerous other international venues.
An ardent defender of contemporary creation, Marie Perbost is a founding member, lead singer and artistic director of the Ensemble 101, a contemporary musical theatre collective that creates and performs its own work. The Ensemble has won numerous awards for French contemporary music and is currently Artist in Residence at the Villa Arson in Nice until 2019. She currently lives in Paris, France. |
