Benoît-Joseph Meier

After graduating from the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles with highest honors, Franco-Swiss tenor Benoit-Joseph Meier was a finalist in the Concours international de chant baroque de Froville (France, September 2015). He subsequently studied with Agnès Mellon, Guy Flechter and Valerie Guillorit, and attended masterclasses with Maarten Koningsberger, Yves Sotin, Gilles Ragon, Christine Schweitzer, Christophe Rousset, Dietrich Henschel, Jessica Pratt and Margreet Honig. His voice allows him to sing both the French baroque repertoire ("haute-contre") and the high lying tenor repertoire (typically Rossini). Recent projects include Leicester in Rossini’s Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra (with the Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi, 2015), Don Modesto & Christ Sauvage for the fi