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The French violinist, mezzo-soprano and musical director, Saskia Salembier, made her musical debut at the Conservatoire d'Annecy. She then studied lyrical singing in Gilles Cachemaille's class at the Ecole de Musique de Genève (Master), then perfected herself in Baroque singing at the Pôle Supérieur Paris-Boulogne with Howard Crook and Isabelle Poulenard, and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Rosa Domínguez. She continues her studies of Baroque violin with Patrick Bismüth, and joined the class of François Fernandez at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Master, 2007-2011). She also studied literature in the preparatory class (Lycée Fénelon) and musicology at the University Paris-Sorbonne.
Specialist in early music, Saskia Salembier is active as a Baroque violinist and solo singer under the direction of Jean Tubéry, Gabriel Garrido, Hugo Reyne, Paul Agnew, Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Jean Christophe Spinosi, Christophe Rousset or Sigiswald Kuijken. She is regularly invited by ensembles such as Elyma, Faenza, La Simphonie du Marais, Ensemble Baroque de Joux, Le Concert de l’Hotel Dieu or La Fenice. She has recently been heard as a soloist at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Salle Gaveau, the festivals of Uzes, Torroella de Montgri, Brou, Utrecht, Royaumont and Sinfonia en Périgord. She performed the roles of Poppea, Musica, Euridice, Proserpina (Monteverdi), Medea (Cavalli), Alceste (Lully), Proserpine (Charpentier), Orpheus (Gluck), Carmen (Georges Bizet).
Open to many repertoires and very involved in stage and body work, Saskia Salembier is more and more regularly asked for as a director (Orphée by Gluck, 2015. La Figure by Leos Janacek, 2016. Il Giasone by Cavalli, 2017. Le Carnaval by Lully, 2018). Since 2006, she has also directed the vocal and instrumental Ensemble Opalescences, which specializes in early music.
Passionate about the voice, Saskia Salembier is now a full professor of lyric singing and Baroque singing at the conservatoire de Nanterre. |
