Jérôme Hantaï

Jérôme Hantaï (born 1961) 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 diploma 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 (traverso) and Pierre (harpsichord).

He additionally records and tours as a fortepianist and gamba player and founded and directs the viol consort, Spes Nostra (formerly the Ensemble Jérôme Hantaï) 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

Solo

2019: Haydn/Mozart Sonates. Mirare 2015: Consort Music au temps de Shakespeare : William Byrd et ses contemporains / Spes Nostra. Musicales Actes-Sud 2005: Joseph Haydn: Sonates pour pianoforte. Ambroisie 2005: Music for Bass Viols. Virgin Veritas 2004: John Jenkins: Fantazia / Ensemble Jérôme Hantaï. Ambronay Éditions / Naïve 2001: Marais: Pièces à 2 et à 3 violes / Jérôme Hantaï, Kaori Uemura, Alix Verzier, Pierre Hantaï. Virgin Veritas 2001: Marais: Pièces de viole, vol. 2. Virgin Veritas 1999: Trios pour pianoforte, violon et violoncelle, no. 36, 37 et 40 / Jérôme Hantaï, Philippe Couvert, Alix Verzier. Astrée Naïve 1999: Pièces pour deux basses de viole / Jérôme Hantaï, Kaori Uemura. Virgin Veritas 1997: Marais: Pièces de viole. Virgin Veritas

Other

2005: Cecilia Bartoli: Opera Probita. Decca 2004: François Couperin : La Sultanne, Préludes & Concerts royaux / Alfredo Bernardini, François Fernandez, Emmanuel Balssa, Elisabeth Joyé. Alpha 2001: Beethoven: Irish and Scottish Songs / Sophie Daneman, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey. Astrée Naïve 2000: Deutsche Kantaten: Tunder, Kuhnau, Bruhns, Graupner / Collegium Vocale Gent, dir. Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi France 1999: JS Bach, Sonates pour flûte / Trio Hantaï and Ageet Zweistra. Virgin Veritas 1992: Tous les matins du monde [soundtrack]. Alia Vox 1991: Christmas Concerto, Sonatas after Concerti Grossi op. VI / Le Concert Français. Opus 111 1990: Delalande: Symphonies pour le Souper du Roy / Ensemble La Simphonie du Marais, Hugo Reyne. Harmonia Mundi