French musician (born 1988)
Myriam Rignol is a French musician and viola da gamba player.
Training.
Rignol began her viola da gamba studies at the Regional Conservatory of Music in Perpignan. She then went on to 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.
Career.
Teaching.
Rignol holds an advanced degree in Early music. In 2011, with the backing of the Superior School of Music in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, she created the viola da gamba class at the Grand Besançon conservatory. Since September 2021, she also taught viola da gamba at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon.
Rignol also frequently gives classes, and workshops, and masterclasses at the Juilliard School in New York, the National Tsing Hua University Nan Da Campus in Taiwan, and the Fondation des Arts Florissants.
Rignol is also a professor with the Instituto d'O Passo.
Ensembles.
Rignol is regularly invited as a soloist, ensemble player, and orchestral musician in many European and American countries, as well as Senegal, Lebanon, and Japan.
In 2007, she co-founded the Ensemble Les Timbre with Yoko Kawakubo and Julien Wolfs. She continues to serve as an artistic director.
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) &amp; 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.
References.
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