Albane Imbs & Rolf Lislevand
Biography Albane Imbs & Rolf Lislevand
Albane Imbs
discovered the renaissance lute at the tender age of 6 and attended her first lute lessons with Pascale Boquet. In 2012, she was admitted to the CNSMD in Lyon in the class of Rolf Lislevand with whom she learns mastering several historical plucked instruments as theorbo, archlute and baroque guitar. She obtains her master degree of Early Music in 2017.
As soloist or continuist, Albane had the opportunity to perform within well-known ensembles such as Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), Kapsberger Ensemble (Rolf Lislevand), Les Musiciens de Saint Julien(François Lazarevich)), Il Gusto Barocco (Jörg Halubek) or with conductors such as Emmanuelle Haïm.
In 2015, Albane creates her own ensemble, Les Kapsber’girls.
Besides performing, pedagogy and music teaching set the core of her activity. Since 2012, Albane possesses a degree in pedagogy (DUMI) and works frequently in educational environments.
Rolf Lislevand
The Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand studied in Oslo and later at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with Hopkinson Smith and Eugène Dombois. He has travelled across the USA and Europe as a soloist and accompanist, has a major contract with the French label Astrée for whom he has already complete an award-winning CD of the music of Kapsberger, the complete works for lute by Vivaldi and baroque guitar works by Sanz and Santa Cruz, and an international reputation as a teacher at summer schools. He was guest at the International Guitar Symposium in London and at the Barcelona Festival.
