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The Franco-Swiss tenor, Benoît-Joseph Meier, studied at at Université d'Évry. He graduated from the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles with highest honors (2012-June 2015). He was a finalist in the Concours international de chant baroque de Froville (France, September 2015). He subsequently studied with Agnès Mellon, Guy Flechter and Valerie Guillorit, and attended master-classes with Maarten Koningsberger, Yves Sotin, Gilles Ragon, Christine Schweitzer, Christophe Rousset, Dietrich Henschel, Jessica Pratt and Margreet Honig.
Benoît-Joseph Meier's voice allows him to sing both the French baroque repertoire ("haute-contre") and the high lying tenor repertoire (typically Rossini). Recent projects include Leicester in Rossini’s Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra (with the Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi, 2015), Don Modesto & Christ Sauvage for the first performance at the Opéra de Nantes of Maria Respublica by François Paris (director Gilles Rico, conductor Daniel Kawka, 2016), Céix in Alcione by Marin Marais (conductor Jordi Savall, Opéra-Comique in Paris 2017). In 2017-2018, he was a member of the International Opera Academy in Ghent, lead by Guy Joosten, where sang Pelléas in Le Petit Pelléas, a version for children of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, directed by Lucija Brnic, at the Opera Vlaanderen (Belgium 2018). He currently lives in Pantin, France. |
