Anicet Castel

Anicet Castel has begun his musical study when he was three years old, consecutively
practicing keyboards (organ, piano), clarinette, violin, and most recently harp. His college
study has taken him as far as to a master of classical litterature and philology at La Sorbonne,
concurrently pursuing his musical practice, starting singing at Orléans music academy.

Anicet has chosen then to specialise in the early repertoire, graduating in baroque
singing at Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2010, and in ancient music studies at
Paris Conservatoire in 2015. Throughout his training, Anicet has recieved the teaching of
distinguished european professors in various subjects, such as style informed singing (Isabelle
Poulenard, Isabelle Desrochers), voice technique (Alain Buet, Elene Golgevit), french baroque
music (Olivier Schneebeli), italian baroque music (Jérôme Corréas, Gabriel Garrido), baroque
gesture, declamation and dancing, and also renaissance and medieval repertoire.

In France and over Europe, Anicet Castel performs regularly on stage and in concert, as
a choir member and a soloist, with famous baroque ensembles such as les Arts Florissants, le
Concert d’Astrée, le Poème Harmonique, Accentus, Namur chamber choir, Sagittarius, les Cris
de Paris…

His collaboration with recognized conductors (William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm,
Vincent Dumestre, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Laurence Equilbey, Christophe Rousset, Leonardo
Garcia Alarcon, Jérôme Corréas, Emmanuel Krivine, Peter Phillips…) has let him perform in
various renowned halls (opéra Garnier, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Center, Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Palau de la Musica Catalana…).

Anicet has been participating in over thirty CD and DVD recordings in the past five
years, as a choir member and as a soloist (a Captive Soldier in Lully’s Amadis, conducted by
Christophe Rousset – Furville in Grétry’s La Caravane du Caire). Passion of theatre leads him to
stage equally as an actor (Midas in Pancrace Royer, le Pouvoir de l’Amour – Mufti in Molière, Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Le Carnaval in Campra, Les fêtes vénitiennes – Thésée in Rameau,
Hippolyte et Aricie) and as a stage director, specialised in historical performances (Les Plaisirs de
Versailles 2010 – Les Doux Tourments 2012).

Gifted with an unusual low and clear voice, multilingual linguist, keen on making
theatre and music come together, Anicet Castel constantly keeps looking for new musical
collaboration and for the roles that will help him reveal his full potential as an artist