Theótime Langlois de Swarte

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, born in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, on November 11, 1995, began learning the violin at the age of four. A student at the CRR de Perpignan, he discovered Baroque violin and went on to study at the CRR de Toulouse, the École normale de musique de Paris and the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris, where his teacher was Michaël Hentz. He collaborates with a number of ensembles, including the Trio Guermantes and the Trio Éluard with Hanna Salzenstein and Fiona Mato, which becomes the Trio Dichter. In 2015, with harpsichordist Justin Taylor, he founded the ensemble Le Consort, which is distinguished by its recordings Opus 1 (2019) or Specchio Veneziano (2021) and accompanies him in the collection Vivaldi: Concerti per una vita (2024). A member since 2015 of William Christie's ensemble Les Arts Florissants, with whom he recorded his first duo recital Générations (2021), Théotime Langlois de Swarte also collaborates with other satellite ensembles such as Sylvain Sartre and Margaux Blanchard's Les Ombres and Jupiter, created by lutenist Thomas Dunford. In 2020, he was the first baroque violinist to be nominated in the revelation category at the Victoires de la musique awards, before being named instrumental soloist in 2022. Meanwhile, he teams up with pianist Tanguy de Williencourt for the program Proust, le Concert Retrouvé (2021) and records a critically acclaimed recital with Les Ombres, Leclair - Vivaldi - Locatelli: Violin Concertos (2022). He collaborates in duo with Justin Taylor on Les Frères Francœur (2022) and with Trio Dichter on An Invitation at the Schumanns' (2023). 2025 saw the publication of his interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons concertos, accompanied by the Le Consort orchestra.