Théotime Langlois de Swarte is a sought-after violinist, both on the baroque and modern violin. He is also a chamber musician and conductor. He has received numerous international awards for his performances and recordings. As a soloist, he regularly performs concertos by all the great baroque masters. He appears alongside ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Le Consort, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal, Holland Baroque, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Les Ombres, and the Orchestre National de Lorraine. His engagements have taken him to prestigious venues across Europe, the United States, and Asia. Théotime Langlois de Swarte studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and became a regular member of Les Arts Florissants in 2014, invited by William Christie while still a student. Since then, he has continued to perform with the ensemble and will tour North America in spring and autumn 2025, performing The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. Together with harpsichordist Justin Taylor and violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche, Théotime Langlois de Swarte founded the baroque ensemble Le Consort, whose recordings have received critical acclaim. Le Consort performs throughout Europe and North America. Among their notable recordings is A Concert at the Time of Proust, made on a recently restored Davidoff Stradivarius at the Musée de la Musique in Paris. The year 2025 will see the release of a new recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the work’s publication. Alongside his work as an instrumentalist, Théotime Langlois de Swarte is also active as a conductor. In 2023, he conducted Les Musiciens du Louvre in a production of Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Opéra-Comique. He also conducted Grétry’s Zémire et Azor, at the invitation of Louis Langrée. In November 2025, he will return to the Opéra-Comique to conduct Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Théotime Langlois de Swarte is a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire. He plays a 1733 violin by Carlo Bergonzi, generously loaned by an anonymous patron.

Justin Taylor is a musician whose playing has been described as “exhilarating” (Le Monde, October 2024), and whose “art of making the keyboard sing is simply astonishing” (Classica, October 2024). In 2015, he won First Prize at the International Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, along with the Audience Prize and two special prizes. Since then, the young Franco-American harpsichordist has pursued a multifaceted career as a soloist and chamber musician on both harpsichord and fortepiano. Following several critically and publicly acclaimed recordings, his latest album, Bach et l’Italie (Alpha Classics, October 2023), garnered the most prestigious awards: Diapason d’or de l’année, CHOC Classica de l’année, a nomination at the 2024 Victoires de la Musique in the “Recording of the Year” category, BBC Instrumental Choice, and a place on Le Monde’s 2023 selection list. Justin Taylor has performed solo recitals in leading venues across France and abroad, including the Auditorium of Radio France, the Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Auditori in Barcelona, the Library of Congress in Washington, and the Oji Hall in Tokyo. He is a regular guest at La Roque d’Anthéron Festival and La Folle Journée de Nantes. He has also appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Lille, Concerto Köln, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Picardie, and the Mannheim and Duisburg Philharmonics. Justin enjoys crafting original and innovative recording programs. His debut album, La Famille Forqueray: Portrait(s), received a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and a Classica’s magazine Choc de l’année. Continuum (2018), featuring works by Scarlatti and Ligeti, earned a Classica Choc and a spot in Le Monde’s Top 5. La Famille Rameau combines iconic works by Jean-Philippe Rameau with previously unpublished music by other members of the Rameau family (Classica Choc de l’année, TTTT Télérama). Justin also recorded Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 (K. 453) with Le Concert de la Loge for the Aparté label, and contributed to the BACH 333 box set for Deutsche Grammophon. With his ensemble Le Consort—which has earned both critical and popular acclaim in concert and on record—Justin has released numerous albums, including three instrumental recordings (Opus 1, featuring Dandrieu and Corelli; Specchio Veneziano, with works by Vivaldi and Reali; and Philarmonica, featuring music by Purcell, Matteis, and Mrs Philarmonica) and several vocal projects with Eva Zaïcik and Adèle Charvet. The ensemble gives around forty concerts per year. Originally from Angers, Justin Taylor studied piano and harpsichord at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou (harpsichord), and Roger Muraro (piano). He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.