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Coin Christophe
He was born in Caen, where he studied the cello with Jacques Ripoche. He entered André Navarra’s class at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) at the age of twelve and in 1974 he was awarded a premier prix (cello). He went on to study the viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum in Basle with Jordi Savall, who invited him to join his ensemble Hespèrion XX.
Biography
As a soloist Christophe Coin has played with the finest ensembles playing on period instruments, such as Concentus Musicus Wien, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Il Giardino Armonico, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and also with famous symphony orchestras, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, those of Sydney and Melbourne, and so on.
In 1987 Christophe Coin formed the Quatuor Mosaïques with Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof and Anita Mitterer, all members of the Concentus Musicus Wien.
Since 1991, as director of the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin has been exploring the European repertoires of the seventeenth, eighteeenth and nineteenth centuries. As a musician and researcher, he studies organology, playing techniques and the repertoire of forgotten masters, and stimulates thought and investigation through the thematic symposia that he organises in Limousin.
Christophe Coin teaches at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) and at the Schola Cantorum in Basle.
