Chloé Sévère
Classical
The next Chloé Sévère concert is scheduled for Monday, August 4, 2025 at Mairie - Saint-Benoît-Du-Sault in Saint-Benoît-du-Sault, France. See all 9 upcoming concerts
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About Chloé Sévère
Hometown
France
Genre
Classical
Chloé Sévère is the co-founder and director of Ensemble El Sol and has cultivated that group's unusual specialty of Spanish and South American Baroque music. She has also been active as an educator, harpsichordist, and keyboard accompanist. Sévère began studying the harpsichord at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de la Vallée de Chevreuse with Michèle Dévérité. She graduated with honors from that school and went on to the Amsterdam Conservatory for a harpsichord bachelor's degree studying with Bob van Asperen, and returned to France for a master's degree at the Paris Conservatory, working with Olivier Baumont. Sévère took lessons in chamber music with Kenneth Weiss and continuo playing with Blandine Rannou. In Amsterdam, she was also influenced by contemporary harpsichord music specialist Annelie de Man. After completing her education, Sévère found work with a variety of leading Baroque vocal and opera groups, both in France and beyond, including Christophe Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques, Opera Fuoco, and Les Paladins. A special focus of her career has been serving as an audition and competition accompanist: she has filled these roles at the Juilliard School in New York, the Renata Tebaldi Baroque Singing Competition in San Marino, and the Handel Singing Competition in London. Sévère herself emerged as the winner of the Young Talent prize at a competition sponsored by Zonta International, after which she gained prestigious new collaborators: Nathalie Stutzmann, Les Arts Florissants, and Versailles Baroque Music Center, where she has made recurring appearances.
With mezzo-soprano Angélique Pourreyron, Sévère founded Ensemble El Sol in 2016. The group experienced rapid success and was signed to the Alpha label, where, with Sévère as conductor, it released the album Reinas: Airs en espagnol à la cour de Louis XIII in 2019. That year, Sévère became the coordinator of the early music department at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental Paris-Saclay (CRD Paris-Saclay). ~ James Manheim
Chloé Sévère has also released music as a member of Ensemble El Sol.
