Jean-Marc Aymes

Eric Bourillon

Bastien Lansbergen

Jean-Marc AYMES

A talented instrumentalist, pedagogue, multidisciplinary musical and artistic director, Jean-Marc Aymes has been a major player in French musical life for 30 years.

Jean-Marc Aymes is a harpsichordist, artistic director of the ensemble Concerto Soave and the Mars en Baroque Festival.

He is also a professor of harpsichord at the National Conservatory
Superior of Music and Dance of Lyon since 2009. He studied at the Toulouse, La Haye and Brussels Conservatories before winning the ancient chamber music competitions in Bruges and Malmö.

At the beginning of the 90s, he founded Concerto Soave with the soprano María Cristina Kiehr. Besides very many concerts
in chamber training, Jean-Marc Aymes has directed several productions of operas and oratorio (Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell... ), including a number of world premieres (Cavalli, Perti, Colonna... ). He also leads a career as a solo harpsichordist (discographic integrals of the published keyboard music of Frescobaldi and the Second book of Froberger). His discography is rich with more than sixty recordings.

Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the Mars en Baroque festival in Marseille. All these activities have made him an important player in the French musical life for 30 years.

Podcast

Baroquissimo! Podcast France Musique Les 25 ans du Concerto Soave - Jean-Marc Aymes