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Valentin Tournet

Early music specialist Valentin Tournet is a rising figure in the late 2010s and early 2020s decades on the early music scene, both as a viola da gamba player and as conductor of La Chapelle Harmonique. With that group, he has developed an ongoing relationship with the Palace of Versailles. Tournet was born on April 16, 1996, in La Garenne-Colombes in the northwestern suburbs of Paris. As a child, he was fascinated by the film Tous les matins du monde, and he took up the gamba at age five. He sang in the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, the children's choir of the Paris Opéra, and on a family visit to Saintes, he met conductor Philippe Herreweghe and began to think about conducting. At 14, studying with Jean-Louis Charbonnier, he won several prizes on the viola da gamba, and he also took conducting lessons from Pierre Cao. Tournet studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels under Philippe Pierlot and then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Christophe Coin. He also had advice from conductor-gambist Jordi Savall. In 2015, he made his debut on the viola da gamba at the MA Festival in Bruges, Belgium, and at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 2017, while still a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, Tournet established La Chapelle Harmonique. The group consists of choristers and instrumentalists, and it varies in size according to the repertory performed. La Chapelle Harmonique was immediately successful. It was chosen by the Friends of Royal Opera organization to perform the St. John Passion, BWV 245, of Bach at the royal chapel at Versailles Palace in March of 2017. The group performed the recently discovered second version of the work. That appearance shaped Tournet's subsequent career in several ways. It stimulated an ongoing and growing relationship with the Versailles Palace, which signed La Chapelle Harmonique to its Château de Versailles label, and it helped develop Tournet's unusual specialty of performing well-established repertory works in unusual versions. Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique group have also participated in innovative chamber music projects, with Tournet sometimes playing viola da gamba; it has collaborated with pianist Jean-François Zygel, the Comédie Française stage company, and composer Thierry Escaich, among others. Tournet led the "Christmas" version of Bach's Magnificat, the Magnificat de la Nativité, BWV 243a, on a 2019 recording for Château de Versailles, and he returned in 2021 with a recording of Rameau's opera Les Indes Galantes. In 2022, Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique released a recording of Rameau's rarely heard comic opera Les Paladins.
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