Ensemble Dulcissime
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Introduction of Members
Ensemble Dulcissime
Ingrid Boyer
Recorder
The French recorder player Ingrid Boyer offers the musical world a versatile, creative personality and a sound quality borrowed from historical and technical knowledge. She began her musical career with Pierre Boragno at the CRR de Versailles after being selected for the double course at Lycée La Bruyère. She thus obtained her DEM Musical Studies prize and her Literary Baccalaureate with honors. She studied both musicology at the Sorbonne Paris IV, lyrical singing with Isabelle Guillaud at the Conservatoire du 7e arrondissement de Paris, and the interpretation course of the ancient and contemporary musical world at Versailles. Selected by the Bern University of the Arts, she studied with Michael Form, then at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis with Conrad Steinmann where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Her concert projects are both in various prestigious churches in Paris (St Eustache church, St placide ...), in many theaters (Théâtre du Châtelet, Montansier, Ranelag theater ...), festivals, but also in museums (Museum of Evolution, Quai Branly Museum...), in castles (Château de Versailles, Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte...) or for special events (for President François Hollande, at the occasion of the opening of the new building of the Maison de Radio France, Disneyland...). It then touches the international at the Philharmonic of Haarlem in the Netherlands, in Croatia with in particular a concert for the president of Croatia, in Germany, in Switzerland (Paulus Kirche of Basel, Bern and Neuchâtel). Mainly fond of chamber music and human relationships, she plays in original ensembles with the Alteratio ensemble (theorbo, viola da gamba and recorder), the Benedictus ensemble (recorder duo), the Eolian Harp ensemble (flute and ancient harp) and as a singer at the maitrîse des Hauts-de-Seine and the Schola of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. As a hobby she also plays the double bass in a Christian orchestra in Alsace and a in a jazz ensemble.
Talitha-Cumi Witmer
Lute, Theorbo
The American-Korean lutenist, Talitha Cumi Witmer started her musical studies at age 4 with church choir and piano. When she was 9 she heard a lute on a CD and immediately fell in love with its sound. Her dream to study the lute was then realized at the age of 13, when she began her formal studies on the instrument in Tokyo.
Performances as a continuo player have included working with Claron McFadden, Etienne Siebens, Erik van Nevel, Maris Kupcs, Mieneke van der Velden, Daniël Brüggen, Pieter-Jan Belder, Peter Kooij, Charles Toet, Het Residentie Orchestra, het Dordrechts Kamerorkest, in consort music, cantatas, motets, oratorios, and operas. When she performed in the opera, Cendrillon by Jules Massenet together with Het Residentie Orkest, in addition to playing the lute, Talitha also worked on editing the harp part for the lute and theorbo. She was selected in EEEmerging European Ensembles of 2018 as a member of the Early Music ensemble, Le Voci delle Grazie. She plays the bass lute and is a founding member of Casulana Lute Consort, Ensemble Salve Eva, and Trio Aido. She performs in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Switzerland.
She took part in master classes by many of today’s leading lutenist, Yasunori Imamura, Nigel North, Paul O’Dette, Rolf Lislevand and Hopkinson Smith. She studied the lute and theorbo under Joachim Held and Mike Fentross at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Early Music performance. Talitha has performed in Festival Classique Den Haag, Modena Grandezze, Meraviglie Festival Musicale Estense, Festival de musique Baroque d'Ambronay, Utrecht Early Music Festival, and in many more festivals. In 2022 she obtained a master’s degree in lute pedagogy at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the coaching of Peter Croton.
Alongside performing, she loves to teach children, read books, and go on day trips and hiking.
Victor Mèriaux
​Baroque Cello,
Viola da Gamba
​Victor Mériaux studied cello with Jean-Luc Brulin at the CRD de Calais, where he was trained in different styles such as classical, baroque, early-music, traditional and contemporary music. He then entered the CRR de Saint-Maur in 2011 in the class of Christophe Oudin where he obtained his cello DEM. Equally devoted to chamber music and orchestral playing on modern instruments, he is also active in performing the baroque cello, a discipline he discovered with Dominique Dujardin and in which he later specialized within the Conservatory of the 7th arrondissement of Paris in the class of Emmanuel Balssa. Since 2015, he has devoted himself to the study of the Baroque repertoire: for three years he followed the double degree program of the Pôle Supérieur de Paris - Boulogne Billancourt in the class of David Simpson, then joined that of Christophe Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where he obtained a master's degree in interpretation in 2020. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in pedagogy for the viola da gamba, in the class of Paolo Pandolfo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Today, he divides his time between the viola da gamba and that of the cello, in various early-music ensembles and also in a modern french pop group. No matter the style or time period, improvisation occupies an important place in his approach to the interpretation of music. Victor Mériaux plays a Bernard Prunier cello from 1999, a copy of a 17th century instrument.
Kaho Inoue
Soprano
The Japanese Soprano, Kaho Inoue started studying voice at age 14. She studied voice under Prof. Eiko Hiramatsu at Tokyo University of the Arts and Early Music under Yukie Sato and Prof. Ulrich Messthaler. She obtained a bachelor’s degree at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and is planning a master's degree at the Schola starting in 2022. As a soloist, she has performed in Japan and Switzerland. She is a member of La Cetra.