Mathilde Vialle and Alice Julien-Laferrière met in 2007 while studying at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon (CNSMD). Since then they have been playing together in various formations. Both curious to discover new repertoire and to play together, they founded a duet: the viola da gamba and the violin offer infinite possibilities that they want to share and to discover.
Pieces for violin and viol inserted in a manuscript of the Wolfenbüttel library, the Ludwig Partiturbuch, were the departure of their duet work. These pieces happen to be period transcriptions of keyboard works by J.J.Froberger for the setting of the duet violin and bass viol. They worked many years on this programme, enriched by a transcription and adaptation work that led them to record their first disc, Froberger en tête à tête, presenting an original aspect of the work of this incredible 17th century German composer.
Followed since their beginnings by the Petit Festival de Musique en Trégor, they recorded their first album in 2016 for the Son an ero label.
Their second album, Louis Couperin en tête à tête, released in March 2020 by Seulétoile, won a Diapason d'Or.
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