Patrick Langot

The versatile French cellist Patrick Langot has a dual career as a player of Baroque and modern instruments. His repertory ranges from music of the 17th to the 21st centuries. Langot earned two degrees from the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD), studying with Eva Descaves, Erwan Fauré, Jean-Marie Gamard, and Henri Demarquette. He also earned a degree in period cello playing from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris, studying with David Simpson, and he won scholarship support from the Foundation of France and the Royaumont Foundation. He founded the Quintette Syntonia in 1999. That group remained active as of the mid-2020s, winning the Tina Mooni Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Florence, Italy, and serving a residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation from 2012 to 2017. The group collaborated with composers Henri Dutilleux, Tôn-Thât Tiêt, and Olivier Greif. Langot's recording debut came on an album featuring Greif's The Battle of Agincourt on the Zig Zag Territoires label. Meanwhile, Langot's career as a Baroque cellist was developing steadily. In the 2010s, he served as lead cellist for the Baroque groups Les Musiciens du Louvre, directed by Marc Minkowski, and Orfeo 55, directed by Nathalie Stutzmann, and he appeared as a guest with many other early music ensembles. With Orfeo 55, he appeared under Stutzmann's direction on the 2014 album Handel: Heroes from the Shadows. In the modern realm, he appeared on the 2015 album Prévert & Kosma: Chansons by Elodie Fonnard, not only playing the cello but also making arrangements, supplying the cover art, and furnishing poetry. In 2019, he released a solo album, Præludio, on the Klarthe label, and, in 2020, the Quintette Syntonia, with soprano Maya Villanueva and cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand, issued an album of chamber music by Benoît Menut on the major Harmonia Mundi label. Langot returned in 2024 on the Evidence Classics label with the album Alas, featuring Argentine works from the Orchestre de Lutetia of Paris under the direction of Alexis Cárdenas.
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