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The French tenor, Olivier Rault, began singing at an early age in the Ecole de Musique du Trégor. At 18, he joined the choir of the l’Opéra de Rennes, where he sometimes performs solo roles and collaborates regularly, in 2003, with the Chœur de Chambre Mélisme(s) directed by Gildas Pungier. He studied singing with Agnès Brosset in Pontivy until 2006. That same year, he became Chanter of the Maîtrise du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. He enrolled at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the class of David Wilson-Johnson and Pierre Mak, where he obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in classical singing in June 2012.
Olivier Rault works with the ensembles Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon), La Main Harmonique, La Tempête, Collegium 1704 (Director: Václav Luks) (Czech Republic), Sagittarius (Director: Michel Laplénie), La Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Cris de Paris, Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Director: Jos van Veldhoven) (the Netherlands), with which he has toured in the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan. He participated in the creation in 2009 of the Ensemble Actéon (vocal music of the 17th and 18th centuries) and the Quatuor A'dam (four voices of men a cappella).
Olivier Rault also teaches children in the Demos project run by the Philharmonie de Paris and adults as a vocal technical trainer in the course Choral singing and sacred music directed by Dominique Sourisse. |
