ANNE AZéMA

'Anne Azéma', French born soprano who has been an important or leading singer of early music since 1993. She has co-directed programs for the Boston Camerata and is also noted as a music scholar.^[1] She is perhaps best known for performing music from the Middle Ages, lute songs from the Renaissance period, Baroque sacred music, and contemporary music theater. She is also a music educator and a researcher. She has performed in Japan, Germany, the US, and elsewhere.^[2]
Anne Azéma's special field is secular/vernacular song of France and Provence in the middle ages. She shared a "Grand Prix du Disque" for her role as Iseult in the Boston Camerata's recording of "Tristan and Iseult". Four solo recital albums, "The Unicorn", "The Game of Love", "Provence Mystique" and "Etoile du Nord" also document her original work in this area. She has also been prominent in many of the Boston Camerata's American music projects, taking the role of Mother Anne Lee of the Shakers in the dance-and-music theater work "Borrowed Light" (premiered in 2004) by Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Camerata director Joel Cohen.
Anne Azéma is the founder and director of the European-based Ensemble Aziman. In 2007 Ms. Azéma, leading Aziman, directed the music for a staged work "Le Tournoi de Chauvency", performed in major theaters of eastern France and Luxembourg.

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External links

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1. Golderg Early music portal
2. All Music

External links

★ Anne Azéma bio at her website

★ Anne Azéma's discography, including four solo recital albums of medieval French song