Mireille Podeur

Mireille Podeur graduated from the CNSMD of Paris in harpsichord, analysis and chamber music. She also worked with Kenneth Gilbert at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Mireille Lagacé in Montreal. She holds the agrégation in musicology from the Paris-Sorbonne University.

A scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture after obtaining her diplomas at the CNSMD of Paris, she studied for a year in Canada and the United States, writing on that occasion several programmes on the keyboard repertoire for Radio Canada. On her return she taught at the University of Rouen and founded the ensemble Arts Baroques, programmed at many festivals (Sablé, Ambronay, Dieppe, the Printemps des Arts de Nantes, the Péniche Opéra) for several shows and concerts (Les Vanitez, Le Soleil du Nord, Les Miroirs du Soleil, Une journée chez Louis). Commissioned by the DRAC of Haute-Normandie, the ensemble worked for three years with the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen, Opéra de Normandie, on a series of masterclasses on 17th-century Italian opera with Howard Crook and Isabelle Poulenard. On that occasion she produced Peri's opera Euridice and its recording for the Maguelone label, awarded by Opéra International.

She specialises in the operatic repertoire and has been invited by the ensemble Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy, directed by J.-L. Impe, for research work on baroque operas and their parodies (Atys, Persée, La Fille mal gardée, Alceste) at Ambronay, Sablé, Brussels, Paris, La Chabotterie, the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles, and for three Musica recordings on Arte. Within her teaching posts and her direction of the early-music departments at the CRR of Nice and then Limoges, she has developed a sustained operatic activity with students and staged several operas, including Lully's Roland, Michel Delabarre's Le Triomphe des Arts, and L. Rossi's Orfeo, in collaboration with choreographer Gilles Poirier, linguist Paolo Zedda and CMBV researcher Thomas Leconte.

She recorded for Musica Ficta the "Divertissements de campagne" of J. B. de Boismortier with Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy, for a 2014 release. She is currently producing, with Orlando Bass, a series of concerts and recordings for Maguelone (artistic direction Didier Henry) around transcriptions for two harpsichords: Rameau's Pièces de clavecin en concerts, Piazzolla's Four Seasons, and Handel's Concerti Grossi opus 6, in collaboration with the "Atelier du Clavecin" of Laurent Soumagnac.