Bertrand Cuiller
Keyboardist and horn player Bertrand Cuiller is a versatile figure who performs solo and with period-instrument ensembles, including his own Le Caravansérail. Cuiller also performs in historically oriented musical-theatrical presentations.
Cuiller was born in France in 1978. His family was musical, and he began harpsichord studies at the age of eight with his mother, Jocelyne Cuiller. He enrolled at the Nantes Conservatory, where he also studied the natural horn with Marcel Ollé, and while a student there, he began what became many years of study with harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï. At 17, Cuiller went on to the Conservatoire de Paris, studying harpsichord with Christophe Rousset and also continuing horn lessons with Michel Garcin-Marrou in Lyon and later with André Cazalet in Paris. While still a student, Cuiller took third prize at the Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition in Belgium in 1998. He graduated from the Conservatoire with unanimous honors in harpsichord and basso continuo playing. In 2003, he made his recording debut on a recording of Grands Motets by André Campra with Les Arts Florissants under director William Christie. His solo debut came three years later on the Alpha label, with the recording William Byrd: Pescodd Time. Cuiller has been an enthusiastic exponent of the English Renaissance keyboard repertory.
Cuiller has toured widely as a solo harpsichordist and chamber player. In the former capacity, he has appeared at leading halls, series, and festivals, including the Concerts Parisiens and the Printemps des Arts de Nantes; outside of France, he has toured the U.S. and Japan. Cuiller has appeared with leading French period-instrument ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Le Concert Spirituel, and Le Poème Harmonique. During a residency at the Abbaye de Royaumont in 2015, he created the ensemble Le Caravansérail to explore larger forms; he remains its director. Cuiller has played chamber music with musicians, including violinists Sophie Gent and Hélène Schmitt, recorder player Marine Sablonnière, and cellist Emmanuel Balssa. He has also participated in unorthodox projects such as a program with actress Louise Moaty in a program featuring the music of Jean-Henri d'Anglebert and the letters of 17th century French politician Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne. Cuiller also performs in the ensemble La Chair des Anges, which brings together harpsichords, string quartet, vocals, electric guitars, and organ. Cuiller has gone on to record for the Agogique, Mirare, and Harmonia Mundi labels, issuing a variety of music by François Couperin on the latter in the late 2010s. In 2022, Cuiller and Le Caravansérail issued a recording of Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater on Harmonia Mundi.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bach Triple
Frank Theuns, Sophie Gent, Bertrand Cuiller, Les Muffatti
Classical - Released by Ramée on Mar 22, 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rameau : Pièces pour clavecin
Chamber Music - Released by Mirare on Feb 23, 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Other Works
Le Caravansérail, Emmanuelle de Negri, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Bertrand Cuiller
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Apr 8, 2022
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonate e Partite per il Flauto Traversiere
Frank Theuns, Bertrand Cuiller
Classical - Released by Ramée on Feb 19, 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach : Concertos pour clavecin (Bertrand Cuiller, clavecin)
Keyboard Concertos - Released by Mirare on Jan 22, 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sonatas per cimbalo & Fandango
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jun 17, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Couperin L'Alchimiste: Les Années de jeunesse
Bertrand Cuiller, Jean-Luc Ho, Les Meslanges
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on May 29, 2020
Diapason d'or24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Pescodd Time (Byrd, Bull, Philips)
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Apr 4, 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Concertos pour Clavecin
Bertrand Cuiller, Daniel Cuiller, Stradivaria
Classical - Released by Mirare on Jan 22, 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
François Couperin L'Alchimiste: Un petit théâtre du monde
Bertrand Cuiller, Isabelle Saint-Yves
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Aug 31, 2018
5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mr Tomkins : His Lessons of Worthe (Bertrand Cuiller, clavecin)
Chamber Music - Released by Mirare on Jun 7, 2011
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Henry Lawes: Ayres
La Rêveuse Benjamin Perrot, Jeffrey Thompson, Florence Bolton, Bertrand Cuiller, Benjamin Perrot
Classical - Released by Mirare on Feb 25, 2013
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Salvatore Lanzetti: Sonates a Violoncello Solo e Basso Continuo
Emmanuel Balssa, Alix Verzier, Bertrand Cuiller
Chamber Music - Released by Lindoro on Jul 7, 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo