Biography
Arnaud De Pasquale stands out among Baroque keyboardists for his command of historical organs and his deep engagement with the keyboard works of Domenico Scarlatti. His career encompasses solo recitals, chamber-music partnerships, and continuo duties alongside leading French early-music groups. He has documented his artistry on harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano, the last of these featured on the 2024 release Mozart à Paris 1778.
Although his surname occasionally appears in lowercase form, the artist’s own social-media profile consistently capitalizes the initial letter. Raised in a household attuned to Baroque repertoire, he began harpsichord lessons at five with Dominique Ferran at the Poitiers Conservatoire. Later, at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD), Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou guided his studies, after which he pursued additional training with Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé, and Blandine Verlet.
Since joining Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion ensemble in 2005, De Pasquale has remained an active performer and recording participant with the group. He contributed to the 2011 multi-artist project Bach: La chair et l’esprit and, the following year, issued his first collaboration with viola da gamba player Lucile Boulanger—Bach: Sonate à cembalo è viola da gamba—on the Alpha label.
Additional ensemble affiliations include Ensemble Correspondances and Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale. As a soloist he has performed throughout Europe and in Mexico, with notable French appearances at the Château d’Assas—the site where his fascination with historic organs first developed—the Théâtre de Caen, and the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier. A second Alpha recording with Boulanger, C.P.E. Bach, Graun, Hesse: Trios for Fortepiano & Viola da Gamba, appeared in 2015. In 2021 Harmonia Mundi issued Organs of the World, Vol. 1: Orgues de Sicile, and the Château de Versailles label released the fortepiano album Mozart à Paris 1778 in 2024.
Although his surname occasionally appears in lowercase form, the artist’s own social-media profile consistently capitalizes the initial letter. Raised in a household attuned to Baroque repertoire, he began harpsichord lessons at five with Dominique Ferran at the Poitiers Conservatoire. Later, at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD), Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou guided his studies, after which he pursued additional training with Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé, and Blandine Verlet.
Since joining Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion ensemble in 2005, De Pasquale has remained an active performer and recording participant with the group. He contributed to the 2011 multi-artist project Bach: La chair et l’esprit and, the following year, issued his first collaboration with viola da gamba player Lucile Boulanger—Bach: Sonate à cembalo è viola da gamba—on the Alpha label.
Additional ensemble affiliations include Ensemble Correspondances and Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale. As a soloist he has performed throughout Europe and in Mexico, with notable French appearances at the Château d’Assas—the site where his fascination with historic organs first developed—the Théâtre de Caen, and the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier. A second Alpha recording with Boulanger, C.P.E. Bach, Graun, Hesse: Trios for Fortepiano & Viola da Gamba, appeared in 2015. In 2021 Harmonia Mundi issued Organs of the World, Vol. 1: Orgues de Sicile, and the Château de Versailles label released the fortepiano album Mozart à Paris 1778 in 2024.
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