Sebastien Marq

Recorder

Sébastien Marq studied the recorder in France, then in the Netherlands, where he obtained his Uitvoerend Musicus diploma.
First prize winner at the Bruges competition with the Lous Landes Consort, and soloist with William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants, he has also been invited by Jordi Savall, Emmanuelle Haïm, Julien Chauvin’s Concert de la Loge, Gaétan Jarry’s Marguerite Louise ensemble and Thibault Noally’s Les Accents. He regularly performs chamber music with the ensemble La Rêveuse, D!ssonanti, harpsichordist Élisabeth Joyé, the ensemble Léviathan, and Marq’s Brothers & Sisters, which brings together musicians from his family. He has recently been guest soloist with the Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest.
Sébastien Marq is also interested in conducting, and has conducted Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes, Campra’s L’Europe Galante and Lully’s Atys in Utrecht, Paris and The Hague. He also plays the traverso, which he studied with Hélène d’Yvoire and Pierre Tarteaut. He is also musical director of the Festival L’Hiver Musical de Saint-Leu la Forêt.
He has taken part in around a hundred recordings, notably with harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï and Le Concert Français, violinist and conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi (La Notte, Vivaldi concertos), and the award-winning ensemble La Rêveuse with Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot.
Sébastien Marq is honorary professor of recorder and chamber music at the Region Conservatory in Paris and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands). He gives Master Classes at the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires, and in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Mexico and Japan.