Anne-Catherine Bucher

Anne-Catherine Bucher studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Michèle Dévérité, Robert Kohnen, Françoise Lengellé, Huguette Dreyfus and attended master classes with Jesper Christensen and Gustav Leonhardt. She has performed all over Europe and America, both as soloist and as a member of Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Le Concert Brisé (William Dongois) and La Compania Musical (Josep Cabré), as well as participating in numerous CD and radio recordings. In 2000, she founded the ensemble Le Concert Lorrain with the aim of promoting a musical elite in her home region. Her CD recording together with this ensemble of Le Manuscrit des Ursulines de la Nouvelle- Orléans was awarded the highest distinction by the magazine Goldberg (a specialist publication for Early Music). A further recording by Le Concert Lorrain, Les Petits Motets by Henry Madin, was awarded the “Diapason d’or découverte”. Anne-Catherine Bucher’s intense musicological work leads to the creation, time and again, of very unusual concert programs which are made accessible to a very wide audience in novel concert forms which she has developed, e.g., the ‘Cafés Baroques’. She is a regular guest at the Opéra National de Lorraine in projects involving Early Music and Baroque or Classical opera productions. She teaches harpsichord at the Metz Conservatoire and is a regularly invited to lecture at international academies and master classes in France, Poland, Belgium, Finland, Mexico and Cuba.