Myriam Rignol

Myriam Rignol, born July 12, 1988, is a French musician and viola da gamba player.

Training
She began her viola da gamba studies at the Regional Conservatory of Music in Perpignan, with further study at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, 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.

Education
Holder of an advanced degree in early music, in 2011 she created the viola da gamba class at the Grand Besançon conservatory, backed by the Superior School of Music in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In September 2021, she also became a viola da gamba teacher at the Conservatory of Lyon CNSMD.

She also frequently gives master classes, including classes and workshops at the Juilliard School in New York, at the National Tsing Hua University Nan Da Campus in Taiwan and in Japan, for the Fondation des Arts Florissants. '

In addition, Myriam Rignol participates with the Instituto d'O Passo.

Ensembles
Regularly invited as a soloist, ensemble player, or orchestral musician in many European and American countries, she has also performed in Senegal, Lebanon and Japan.

She is the founder and co-artistic director of the Ensemble Les Timbres since 2007, with Yoko Kawakubo and Julien Wolfs

As a continuo player she regularly performs with the ensembles A Nocte Temporis (dir. Reinoud Van Mechelen) and Les Arts Florissants (dir. William Christie (musician) & Paul Agnew).

She actively collaborates with the Ricercar Consort, Pygmalion Ensemble, Ensemble Correspondences, La Main Harmonique, I Gemelli, and many other artists, including Marc Mauillon, Angélique Mauillon, Marie Van Rijn, Cyril Auvity, Thomas Dunford, and Léa Desandre.

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

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

Awards
In 2023 she is named Chevalière de l'ordre des arts et lettres.
 * 2008 - 4th premio, public prize and special jury prize for the best interpretation of the basso continuo at the 10th Premio Bonporti International Chamber Music Competition with the Ensemble Les Timbres '.
 * 2009 - 1st prize at the Bruges Early Music Festival and prize for the best contemporary creation under the acronym YoJu-Mi KaWoRi with the Ensemble Les Timbres '
 * 2010 - 1st prize at the Yamanashi Competition (Kôfu – Japan).
 * 2011 - 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the Bruges Early Music Festival.
 * 2011 - 2nd Bach-Abel Wettbewerb Prize (Köthen – Germany).
 * 2012 - Pro Musicis prize with the Ensemble Les Timbres.
 * 2013 - 3rd Prize and Audience Prize at the Internationale Telemann Wettbewerb in Magdeburg with the Ensemble les Timbres.
 * 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”. '

Solo

 * 6 suites BWV 1007 à 1012 - Johann Sebastian Bach, 2020. '

with Ensemble Les Timbres

 * La Gamme - Marin Marais, 2022, diapason d'or.
 * Sonate à doi, violine & viola da gamba con cembalo opus I & 2 - Dietrich Buxtehude, 2020, diapason d'or. '
 * Concerts Royaux - François Couperin, 2018, diapason d'or. '
 * La Suave melodia avec Harmonia Lenis - Andrea Falconieri,  Dario Castello, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Tarquinio Merula, Marco Uccellini, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Francesco Turini, Giovanni Martino Cesare, Agostino Guerrieri, 2015.
 * Pièces de Clavecin en concert, intégrale - Jean-Philippe Rameau, 2014 diapason d'or.

with other ensembles

 * Je m'abandonne à vous, airs sur des poésies de la Comtesse de la Suze with Marc Mauillon and Angélique Mauillon, 2021.
 * Le coucher du Roi, musiques pour la chambre de Louis XIV with Thibaut Roussel and Les Musiciens du Roi, 2021.
 * Quatre Suites de clavecin de François Dieupart with Marie Van Rhijn, Héloïse Gaillard, Tami Trauman and Pierre Rinderknecht, 2020.
 * Barricades - with Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford and Léa Dessandre, 2020.
 * A deux violes esgales, Sainte Colombe, Marin Marais - with Mathilde Vialle and the participation of Thibaut Roussel and Julien Wolfs, 2020. '
 * Pathodia sacra et profana, Constantin Huygens - with Marie Van Rijn and Cyril Auvity, 2020.
 * Monsieur de Sainte Colombe et ses filles - with the Ricercar Consort, 2020.
 * The Dubhlinn Gardens, musiques irlandaises des 17ème et du 18ème siècle - with A Nocte Temporis, 2019.
 * Leçons de Ténèbres, Michel Lambert - with Marc Mauillon, Thibaut Roussel and Marouan Mankar-Bennis, 2018.
 * Inventions, Denis Dufour - with Furians ensemble, 2018.
 * Resveries, pièces du livre V, Marin Marais - with the Ricercar Consort, 2014.
 * Infernum in Paradise, consort songs & music - with Musicall Humors, 2012.
 * L’Aura Mia Sacra, Cipriano de Rore - with La Main Harmonique, 2013.

with les Arts Florissants

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

with A Nocte Temporis

 * Cantates françaises, Clérambault, 2017.

with Ensemble Correspondences

 * Leçons de Ténèbres, de Lalande, 2015.
 * Meslanges pour la chapelle d'un Prince, Etienne Moulinié, 2013.
 * Litanies de la Vierge, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 2013.
 * L’Archange & le Lys, messe & motets, Antoine Boësset, 2011.

with Ensemble Correspondences

 * Les Plaisirs du Louvre, airs pour la chambre de Louis XIII, 2020.
 * Histoires sacrées, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 2019.
 * Le ballet royal de la nuit, 2018.
 * La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 2017.

with A Nocte Temporis

 * Orphée aux Enfers, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 2020.
 * Dumesny, haute-contre de Lully, 2019.

with I Gemelli

 * Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi, 2020.

with Pygmalion

 * Enfers, récital, Stéphane Degout, 2018.
 * L’Orfeo, Luigi Rossi, 2017.
 * Stravaganza d’Amore, la naissance de l'opéra chez les Médicis, 2017.
 * Köthener Trauermusik BWV 244a, Johann Sebastian Bach, 2014.
 * Dardanus, Jean-Philippe Rameau, 2013.
 * Missa 1733, Johann Sebastian Bach, 2012.
 * Missae Breves BWV 233 & 236, Johann Sebastian Bach, 2010.
 * Missae Breves BWV 234 & 235, Johann Sebastian Bach, 2008.

with Le Poème Harmonique

 * Phaéton, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 2018.

with Il Gardellino

 * Schlage doch gewünschte Stunde, cantates de Bach, Telemann et Hoffmann, 2012.