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Brigitte Engerer
Brigitte Engerer
French pianist
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Accentus (choir)
Accentus (choir)
choir
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Sandrine Piau
Sandrine Piau
French opera soprano
3
Anne-Kathrin Peitz
Anne-Kathrin Peitz
German film director and producer
4
Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer
5
Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger
French composer
6
Divna Ljubojević
Divna Ljubojević
Serbian singer
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Eric Ericson
Eric Ericson
Swedish conductor
8
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri
Greek singer
9
Petula Clark
Petula Clark
British actress and singer
10
Carmen Souza
Carmen Souza
Portuguese singer-songwriter
11
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
French singer, actress, television presenter, painter, ex-lyricist, ex-model
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Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
Estonian composer
13
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater
American singer
14
Louis Vierne
Louis Vierne
French organist and composer
15
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
American interdisciplinary artist and musician
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Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin
Russian pianist and composer
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Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Paradis
French singer, model and actress
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Liza Lim
Liza Lim
Australian composer
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Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
French actress
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Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy
French singer and songwriter.
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Éliane Radigue
Éliane Radigue
French musician and composer
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Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni
Italian-French singer, model and spouse of former president of France
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Lila Downs
Lila Downs
Mexican American singer-songwriter
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Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf
French-Lebanese trumpeter
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Ishtar
Ishtar
Israeli singer
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Mica Paris
Mica Paris
English soul/jazz singer
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Josephine Stephenson
Josephine Stephenson
French-British composer, singer, and instrumentalist
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Ayọ
Ayọ
Nigerian-German singer-songwriter
Laurence Equilbey
French conductor

Laurence Equilbey

Intro
French conductor
Awards Received
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Knight of the Order of the Polar Star
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the National Order of Merit
Music
Laurence Equilbey

Laurence Equilbey (born 6 March 1962) is a French conductor, particularly known for her work in the choral repertoire.

Equilbey studied piano and flute in her early life. She undertook formal music education in Paris, Vienna, London and Scandinavia. Her teachers included Eric Ericson, Denise Ham, Colin Metters and Jorma Panula.

Equilbey founded the chamber choir Accentus in 1991, and continues as its music director. With Accentus, she has conducted commercial recordings for such labels as Naïve. In 1995, she founded the Jeune Chœur de Paris, which in 2002 was incorporated as a department of the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris [fr]. She co-directs the programme with Geoffroy Jourdain. Since the 2009-2010 season, Equilbey has been an associate artist, with Accentus, of the Ensemble orchestral de Paris.

Equilbey invented the "e-tuner", an electronic means of tuning quarter tones and 1/3 tones. Outside of conventional classical music, she is a collaborator in the Private Domain project, which has included work with Émilie Simon, Murcof, Para One, and Marc Collin of Nouvelle Vague.

In 2008, Equilbey was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.