about
Born thanks to some thrilled and friendly musical encounters, the Ensemble de l'Encyclopédie is an ensemble that performs the repertoire from 1750 to 1830 on period instruments thanks to historically informed musicological research.
Founded by Florent Albrecht in 2020, L'Ensemble de L'Encyclopédie is established on the shores of Lake Geneva. It is a scalable ensemble composed of the best musicians specialized in such a repertoire and music; most of them have already performed within the greatest baroque, classical and romantic European ensembles.
Thanks to historically informed musicological researches, the ensemble intends to offer enthusiastic and as faithful as possible interpretations of the repertoire of this period, whatever the genre considered: sacred, chamber, lyrical, symphonic and concert music. But he also wants it to discover these unknown masterpieces that are so numerous and so little played.
In less than two years of existence, the Ensemble de L'Encyclopédie has reached very fast pace of development in Geneva, being invited at Victoria Hall, Studio Ernest Ansermet (broadcast by Swiss Radio), at the Concerts d'été de Saint-Germain, at Musiques en été festival, and soon in May 2023 at Agapé festival.
L'Encyclopédie just recorded for Harmonia Mundi a whole Leopold & Wolfgang Mozart program! Release on October 2025.
florent albrecht - artistic director
After significant encounters with Paul Badura-Skoda, Charles Rosen, and Malcolm Bilson who mark out his artistic career, in 2018 he was awarded the laureate from the Royaumont Foundation.
Florent Albrecht surrounds himself with an eclectic mix of demanding musicians for his past and future projects : Giuliano Carmignola, Jodie Devos, Amandine Beyer, Sophie Karthaüser, Anna Reinhold, or conductors such as Chiara Banchini, Alexis Kossenko and Vaklav Luks in a concert where Florent was invited by the Orchestre National de France.
As a soloist or chamber musician, of which he is particularly fond of, he already performed at the Barbican Center London, Auditorium Nacional Madrid, Munich Philharmony, Juilliard School New York, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Auditorium de Radio France, Philharmonie and National Opera in Paris, at Chopin Festival in Nohant.
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