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Dumestre Vincent
After studying art history at the École du Louvre and classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, Vincent Dumestre (b. May 1968) devoted himself to the lute, Baroque guitar and theorbo. He studied those instruments in courses with Hopkinson Smith and Eugène Ferré, and with Rolf Lislevand at the Toulouse Conservatoire (CNR), and in the continuo class at the Boulogne Conservatoire (CNR), where he was unanimously awarded the advanced diploma. Since then he has taken part in many concerts, notably with the Ricercar Consort, La Simphonie du Marais, Le Concert des Nations, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Akademia and the ensembles of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. He has participated in more than thirty recordings with most of those ensembles, for the firms Erato, Auvidis, Virgin, Ricercar, Pierre Verany, Naxos, Empreinte Digitale and Fnac Musique.
Biography
In 1997 Vincent Dumestre formed Le Poème Harmonique, a chamber ensemble and orchestra specialising in the Baroque repertoire, of which he is the artistic director. From the very first the ensemble's productions won both critical acclaim and popularity. In 1999 the French music magazine Diapason voted Vincent Dumestre ‘Young Talent of the Year’ for his work with Le Poème Harmonique, whose recordings on the Alpha label are regularly singled out by the music press (Record of the Year Diapason and Le Monde de la Musique, Recommendations from Classica, Répertoire, Opéra International, Télérama, etc.) At the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la Musique Classique) Le Poème Harmonique was nominated in 2002 in the category ‘Best Classical Recording’ and in 2003 in that of ‘Best Ensemble’. In March 2002 Vincent Dumestre received the Antonio Vivaldi International Record Award from the Cini Foundation in Venice for Cavalieri's Lamentations (Alpha 011). At the Cannes Classical Awards he was nominated with Claire Lefilliâtre in the category ‘17th- and 18th-century Songs or Vocal Recitals’ for the Delalande Tenebrae programme (Alpha 030). In 2004 Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Hamonique received the Caecilia Press Prize and the annual Klara Radio Prize in Belgium for the recording Nova Metamorfosi (Alpha 039). In 2005 the recording of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (DVD Alpha) was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, after previously been voted ‘Choc de l'Année 2005’ by Le Monde de la Musique and receiving the ‘Diapason d’Or Arte’. In 2004 Vincent Dumestre was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
