Myriam Rignol

Myriam Rignol
Background information
Born (1988-07-12) July 12, 1988[1]
GenresBaroque music, Chamber music, Medieval music, Renaissance music, Contemporary music
OccupationsMusician, gambist
InstrumentViola de gamba
Years active2011–Present

Myriam Rignol (born 1988) is a French viola da gamba player and teacher.[1][2]

Training

Myriam Rignol began her viola da gamba studies at the Regional Conservatory of Music in Perpignan. She then went on to study at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, the Cologne University of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Her main teachers have been Christian Sala, Marianne Muller, Emmanuel Balssa, Rainer Zipperling, Wieland Kuijken, Jordi Savall, and Philippe Pierlot.[3]

Career

Teaching

Rignol holds an advanced degree in early music. In 2011, with the backing of the Superior School of Music in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, she created the viola da gamba class at the Grand Besançon conservatory.[4] Since September 2021, she also taught viola da gamba at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon.[5]

Rignol also frequently gives classes, workshops, and masterclasses at the Juilliard School in New York, the National Tsing Hua University Nan Da Campus in Taiwan, and the Foundation Les Arts Florissants.[6]

Ensembles

Rignol is regularly invited as a soloist, ensemble player, and orchestral musician in many European and American countries, as well as Senegal, Lebanon, and Japan.

In 2007, she co-founded the ensemble Les Timbres with Yoko Kawakubo and Julien Wolfs. She continues to serve as an artistic director.[7][8]

As a basso continuo player she regularly performs with the ensembles A Nocte Temporis[9] directed by Reinoud Van Mechelen and Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie and Paul Agnew.[10]

She actively collaborates with the Ricercar Consort,[11] Pygmalion,[12] Ensemble Correspondences,[13] La Main Harmonique,[14] I Gemelli,[15] and many other artists, including Marc Mauillon,[16] Angélique Mauillon, Marie Van Rijn,[17] Cyril Auvity,[18] Thomas Dunford, and Léa Desandre.[19]

She is a member of the Musicall Humors consort with Lucile Boulanger, Julien Leonard, Joshua Cheatham, and Nicholas Milne.[20] She also forms a viol duet with Mathilde Vialle.[21]

In addition, she occasionally collaborates with L'Achéron,[22] Capriccio Stravagante,[23] Hesperion XXI, Arcangelo, and Le Poème Harmonique.[24]

Awards

  • 2008 - Fourth premio, public prize and special jury prize for the best interpretation of the basso continuo at the tenth Premio Bonporti International Chamber Music Competition with Les Timbres.[25][26]
  • 2009 - First prize at the Bruges Early Music Festival and prize for the best contemporary creation under the acronym YoJu-Mi KaWoRi with Les Timbres.[27][28]
  • 2010 - First prize at the Yamanashi Competition in Kôfu, Japan.[29]
  • 2011 - Second Prize and Audience Prize at the Bruges Early Music Festival.[30]
  • 2011 - Second Bach-Abel Wettbewerb Prize in Köthen, Germany.[31]
  • 2012 - Pro Musicis prize with Les Timbres.[32]
  • 2013 - Third Prize and Audience Prize at the Internationale Telemann Wettbewerb in Magdeburg with Les Timbres.[33]
  • 2013 - Winner of the Clics Jeunes grant from the Fondation de France – Jacolin Dufresne grant, for her project “Unpublished recording of Rameau with a viola by Tilman”.[34][35]

In 2023 she was named Chevalière de l'ordre des arts et lettres.[36]

Discography

Solo

Chamber music

with Les Timbres

with other ensembles

Basso continuo

  • N'espérez plus mes yeux, airs sérieux et à boire vol. 3, 2021.[63]
  • Les Arts Florissants, 40 ans 1979-2019, 2019.[64][65]
  • L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi, 2019.[66]
  • Si vous vouliez un jour, airs sérieux et à boire vol.2, 2019, diapason d'or.[67]
  • Bien que l’amour, airs sérieux et à boire vol. 1, 2016.[68]

with A Nocte Temporis

with Ensemble Correspondances

Orchestral music

with Ensemble Correspondances

with A Nocte Temporis

with I Gemelli

  • Schlage doch gewünschte Stunde, cantates de Bach, Telemann et Hoffmann, 2012.[90]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Manheim, James. "Myriam Rignol Biography". allmusic.com. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Archived from the original on February 23, 2025. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Myriam Rignol - Equipe pédagogique CNSMD Lyon". CNSMD Lyon (in French). Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Biographie - Myriam Rignol" (PDF). cnsmd-lyon.fr (in French). National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Découvrez le département de Musiques anciennes du Conservatoire du Grand Besançon". conservatoire.grandbesancon.fr/esm-crr-cursus-pro-musiques-anciennes (in French). December 10, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Discipline viole de gambe - CNSMD". cnsmd-lyon.fr (in French). Archived from the original on September 21, 2023. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Masterclasses in the Quartier des Artistes". arts-florissants.org. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved June 8, 2026.
  7. ↑ JPL (November 30, 2020). "Myriam Rignol et Julien Wolfs, interview : 14 sonates en trio de Dietrich Buxtehude sur un double CD de l'Ensemble Les Timbres". bfc-classique.fr (in French). Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Biographie". fevis.com (in French). Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis – Oh, Ma Belle Brunette". discogs.com. Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Personnes - Myriam Rignol". arts-florissants.org. Fondation Les Arts Florissants - William Christie. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  11. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Urbain (June 8, 2020). "L'invité du jour - Philippe Pierlot - Monsieur de Sainte Colombe et ses filles". francemusique.fr (in French). Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Musique classique à Bordeaux : Pygmalion s'invente un nouvel été avec le festival Pulsations". ensemblepygmalion.com (in French). Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Ensemble Correspondances, concert en partenariat avec Le Printemps des Arts de Nantes". www.chapelle-montplace.com (in French). June 12, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2026.
  14. ↑ "Une Autre Odyssée". lamainharmonique.fr (in French). Archived from the original on March 20, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2026.
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  20. ↑ Christine Labroche (April 17, 2023). "John Dowland : Lachrimæ or Seven Teares - Musicall Humors". concertonet.com (in French). Retrieved May 10, 2026.
  21. ↑ "Suite à deux violes égales, Les Instants Baroques du Lot". lesinstantsbaroquesdulot.com (in French). Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  22. ↑ "Les King's Singers au Festival de musique ancienne de Valère. L'Achéron pour un programme 100% Purcell". France Musique (in French). January 12, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  23. ↑ "Un je ne sais quoi de douceur française, avec le Capriccio Stravagante Trio". France Musique (in French). December 9, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
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  29. ↑ "Yamanashi competition, archive". eterna.lolipop.jp (in Old English). Archived from the original on November 11, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
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  31. ↑ "Bach Abel Wettbewerb, Preisträger". bach-abel-wettbewerb.de (in German). Retrieved June 11, 2026.
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  33. ↑ "Wettbewerbsarchiv - Telemann in Magdeburg". telemann.org. Archived from the original on November 11, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
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