Antonin Rondepierre

The French tenor Antonin Rondepierre is a rising star in the field of early music. Soon after graduation, he attracted the attention of conductors such as Sébastien Daucé, Gaétan Jarry, Raphaël Pichon and Olivier Schneebeli. Since then, he has performed regularly with Baroque orchestras such as Pygmalion, Le Concert Spirituel, Marguerite Louise and Les Talens Lyriques and has steadily expanded his Baroque repertory.

In the 2023/24 season he participated in the programme Jeunes Artistes de l’Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky and this season he has been a member of the Talents Adami Classique programme.

Highlights of 2024/25 have included Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Opera Atelier in Toronto, Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra Comique under William Christie, Panait in Martinů’s The Greek Passion at Festival Pulsations under Raphaël Pichon, his return to the Opéra Royal de Versailles as Joabel in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas and concerts of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in the Auditorium de Radio France and Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence under Alexis Kossenko. Highlights of 2023/24 included Télémaque in Destouches’s Télémaque et Calypso with Les Ombres at the Festival d’Ambronay and in Versailles, Rameau’s Samson at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Desmarest’s / Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Phantase in Lully’s Atys with Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset at the Vienna Konzerthaus and a tour of France with Les Ambassadeurs — La Grande Écurie.

His discography includes the operas Télémaque et Calypso and Atys, the album of courtly arias Je m’abandonne à vous, Delalande’s Grands Motets with Ensemble Correspondances and, most recently, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with Pygmalion.

Antonin Rondepierre studied at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and at the Paris Conservatoire, and further refined his technique with Léa Sarfati and Nahuel Di Pierro. He is a double prize-winner at the Concours international de la Mélodie de Gordes 2022 and in 2023 received the special prize at the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck: an engagement at the Festival della Valle d’Itria.