Carole Cerasi

Carole Cerasi has established herself at the very front rank of early keyboard players and recording artists in her field. Known for her expressive and virtuosic interpretations, fluidity of phrasing and refined touch, she has given recitals throughout Europe as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Colombia, Israel, Canada and the United States.

Her CDs have won many major awards (Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Gramophone Awards; C.P.E. Bach and Thomas Tomkins, Diapason d’Or de l’Année; J.S. Bach and the Möller Manuscript, Diapason d’Or de l’Année and runner-up Gramophone Awards; Scarlatti, runner-up Gramophone Awards). In 2018, Metronome Recordings released her 10 CD set of François Couperin’s complete harpsichord works, which received a Diapason d’Or. 

  

A highly respected teacher, besides her work as a Professor of Harpsichord and Fortepiano at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Yehudi Menuhin School, Carole is a much sought-after pedagogue by talented students of the younger generation. She is also in demand as a member of international jury panels. She has recently been named harpsichord professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.  

 

Carole comes from a Sephardic family based in Istanbul, and spent her childhood in Stockholm, Geneva and Jerusalem; her mother tongue is French.