Jérôme Hantaï


Jérôme Hantaï is a viola da gamba player and fortepianist.

Biography

Son of the painters Simon Hantaï and Zsuzsa Hantaï, Jérôme Hantaï grew up outside Paris. He was initially self-taught and played the recorder, harpsichord, fortepiano, and viola da gamba. He went on to study gamba with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he received a Premier Prix in 1984.
As a gamba and violone player, he has performed with numerous pioneers of the early music movement, including Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken, René Jacobs, and Jean-Claude Malgoire. In France, he participated in the formation some of the first early music ensembles, such as the Orchestre Baroque d’Île-de-France and the Ensemble Orlando Gibbons. He is best known as a member of the Trio Hantaï, where he plays alongside his brothers Marc and Pierre. In 2018, he founded the Duo Gordis-Hantaï with the harpsichordist Lillian Gordis.
He additionally records and tours as a fortepianist and gamba player and founded and directs the viol consort, Spes Nostra and the Trio Almaviva. He has recorded music of Marin Marais, W.A. Mozart, and Joseph Haydn for Naïve, Virgin Veritas, Musicales Actes-Sud, and most recently, Mirare and received numerous prizes, including two Diapasons d’Or and a Choc du Monde de la musique.

Discography

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