French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot is renowned for the exceptional quality and timbre of her voice and sings a wide range of repertoire. Richardot has performed with period instrument ensembles such as the Monteverdi Choir, Pygmalion, Le Poème Harmonique, Pulcinella, Les Arts Florissants, and Ensemble Correspondances. Franco-American pianist and musicologist Anne de Fornel is Director of Research at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon.
Lucile Richardot and Anne de Fornel formed a duo in 2020 after meeting at a radio interview in France. Gramophone hailed the duo’s first CD, Les Heures Claires: The Complete Melodies by Nadia and Lili Boulanger as “an insightful, historically significant tour of two of 20th-century France’s great musical minds.” Their Wigmore Hall recital from earlier this month centers works by Nadia and Lili Boulanger in addition to songs by other women composers.