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Philippe Pierlot

Philippe Pierlot was born in Liège. Autodidact on the guitar and the lute, he turned his attention to the viola da gamba, which he studied with Wieland Kuijken. He is the director of the Ricercar Consort, and devotes most of his work to the seventeenth-century repertoire, in which he has offered the public a chance to discover many composers and works of great artistic value.

His repertoire also includes contemporary works, a number of which have been dedicated to him, and he is one of the few performers to play the baryton, a little-known instrument for which Haydn composed nearly 150 works.

He has edited and revived a number of operas, including Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse (given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lincoln Center in New York, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, and the Melbourne Festival, among other venues) and the Sémélé of Marin Marais, and also Bach’s St Mark Passion.

His most recent recordings on the viola da gamba have been devoted to St Colombe and will be issued in 2019.

Philippe Pierlot teaches at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and in his hometown Spa, organising master-classes and seminaries, as well as concerts for young artists.

Selective discography

	von Biber - Imitatio (2016) Baroque Ricercar Consort, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Philippe Pierlot, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Alessandro Poglietti, Johann Kaspar Kerll		Albert Huybrechts - Musique de chambre III (2013) romanticism Solisten van het symfonisch orkest van De Munt, Albert Huybrechts, Lucas Blondeel, Philippe Pierlot, Lionel Bams
	Reformation & Counter-reformation (2010) early music Ex Tempore, Capella Sancti Michaelis, Capilla Flamenca, Ricercar Consort, Patrick Denecker, Guy Penson, Currende, Collegium Vocale Gent (...)		200 ans de musique à Versailles (2007) Baroque, romanticism, classicism Collegium Vocale Gent, Ricercar Consort, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Henry Dumont, Philippe Pierlot
	Giovanni Legrenzi (2004) Baroque Ricercar Consort, Marnix De Cat, Philippe Pierlot		Charpentier - Orphée descendant aux enfers - airs - sonates (2003) Baroque Guy De Mey, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Philippe Pierlot, Henri Ledroit, Jacques Bona, Ricercar Consort
	Henry Du Mont - Gilles Henri Hayne (1999) early music, Baroque Choeur de Chambre de Namur, La Fénice, Bernard Foccroulle, Henri Ledroit, François Fernandez, Philippe Pierlot, Gérard Lesne, Ricercar Consort (...)		Marin Marais - Trios pour le coucher du roy (1998) Baroque Ricercar Consort, Patrick Denecker, Marin Marais, Philippe Pierlot
	Nouvelles Musiques de Chambre - Liège (1996) 20th century Vincent Dujardin, Georges Hermans, Sophie Karthäuser, Izumi Okubo, Jean-Pierre Peuvion, Philippe Pierlot, Frederic D'haene, Henri Pousseur (...)		Antwerps Liedboek (1993) Traditional folk, early music Het Paul Rans Ensemble, Paul Rans, Philippe Malfeyt, Piet Stryckers, Paul Van Loey, Erik Van Nevel, Wim Becu, Simen Van Mechelen (...)

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Bach Musikalisches Opfer (2015) Baroque Ricercar Consort, Johann Sebastian Bach		Albert Huybrechts - Musique de chambre III (2013) romanticism Solisten van het symfonisch orkest van De Munt, Albert Huybrechts, Lucas Blondeel, Philippe Pierlot, Lionel Bams
	Johann Gottlieb Janitsch - Berliner Quartette (2013) Baroque Il Gardellino, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch		Matheo Romero - musique à la cour d'Espagne (2009) early music Currende, Guillemette Laurens, Erik Van Nevel
	Hacquart Carolus - Le maitre de musique (2006) early music Carolus Hacquart, Philippus Van Wichel		Concert Life in 18th Century Berlin. Works by Janitsch, Schaffrath, Graun. (2001) Baroque Il Gardellino, Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Christoph Schaffrath, Johann Gottlieb Graun
	Motetti ed Arie a voce sola (1981) Baroque, early music Henri Ledroit, Alessandro Grandi, Claudio Monteverdi, Ricercar Consort, Léonard Hodemont, Lodovico Viadana, Heinrich Schütz