Aline d'Ambricourt

Aline d’Ambricourt, harpsichordist, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris on November 1967. She first started to practice scales on the piano at the age of four guided by her mother and discovered the harpsichord at the age of 8. She studied under the greatest harpsichord players: Christophe Rousset, Bob Van Asperen, Enrico Baiano, Kenneth Gilbert.
Aline d’Ambricourt has pursued a career as solo performer and accompanist. Highlights of her performances include playing with the ensemble “Collegium Pro Musica” of Genoa conducted by Stefano Bagliano and the sopranist Fabrice di Falco, giving recitals on authentic seventeenth and eighteenth century instruments in private residences and historic buildings (at the St Cecilia Hall in Edinburgh on the Taskin harpsichord from the Russell Collection of historic instruments, at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, at the Querini Stampallia Foundation in Venice, at the Royal Palace of Fredensborg in Denmark, in the Hall of Mirrors of the Parliament building in Brussels) and taking part in prestigious international festivals in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Scotland. She played at the Parliament building in Brussels in the presence of the Danish and Belgian royal families and was invited again by Her Majesty the Queen and His Highness the Prince Consort of Denmark invited her to play at the Palace of Fredensborg.
She is also the agent in Denmark for the prestigious pianist Cyprien Katsaris.
She is also a pedagogue, giving master class in the St Cecilia Hall at the University of Edinburgh as well offering new views on Domenico Scarlatti's works in her DVD published in 2008.