Ariane Le Fournis, a French mezzo-soprano with a rich and full voice, has recently earned a master’s degree in early music vocal performance from the CNSMD in Lyon.

She enjoys ensemble performance, which is why she is involved in numerous choirs and polyphonic ensembles, ranging from symphonic to early music (Le Chœur de Versailles last season, Sollazzo, Musica Vera, Spirito, Le Concert Spirituel, Vox Luminis, Correspondances, G. Binchois, Radio France, Les Cris de Paris, Irini...)

She also sings in young ensembles formed with colleagues such as Matica de Flor, or L’Orangier, a quintet specializing in French Baroque music.

She discovered music in the Sarthe region, at the CRD in Le Mans, initially as an instrumentalist (flute, harpsichord). Passionate about humanities, she continued her studies in preparatory classes at the Lycée Fénelon (Paris). After completing her hypokhâgne and khâgne years, she resumed her vocal studies in various conservatories: the CRD in Gennevilliers and the CRD in Bobigny. During this time, she explored Eastern and Mediterranean vocal styles in Rachid Brahim-Djelloul’s class.

While pursuing her studies at the conservatory, she earned a bachelor’s degree in musicology (Sorbonne University) and a Master’s degree in Modern Literature Education (MEEF) in 2020 (Sorbonne Nouvelle). That same year, she enrolled at the CNSMD in Lyon to study early music singing under the guidance of Robert Expert (Baroque singing), Anne Delafosse (medieval and Renaissance singing), and Anne-Catherine Vinay (vocal coach and harpsichordist).

Ariane Le Fournis has had the opportunity to participate in courses and masterclasses with numerous vocal specialists (Paul Agnew, Marc Mauillon, Stéphane Degout and Sandrine Piau, Peter Kooij, Sébastien Daucé, Lucile Richardot, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Vincent Dumestre, Benjamin Lazare).

She participates in various musical productions and regularly performs solo alto parts: the title role in Glück’s Orphée (November 2024), the Third Child and Third Lady in The Magic Flute, Alto in Bertali’s opera La Magia Delusa at the Roya Early Music Festival, solo alto in Haydn’s Missa in tempore Belli in 2023 with Stéphanie-Marie Degand, and J-M Haydn’s Requiem in C with Vox Luminis at Bozar in Brussels in 2023. Last year, she sang in the choir of David and Jonathas with Correspondances. In March 2025, she performed the alto-soprano solo part in Charpentier’s Te Deum at the Royal Chapel of Versailles and at the Salle Gaveau.

Juliette Guichard' first encounter with the viola da gamba occured when she was 7 years old. Intrigued by its unique sound and the diverse repertoire dedicated to it, she decided, after 10 years of study at the CRR in Angers with Eleanor Lewis-Cloué, to make it her constant companion. She then studied at the CNSMD Lyon from 2020 to 2025 with Myriam Rignol and Marianne Müller and spent six months on an Erasmus exchange at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Paolo Pandolfo in 2024. 

She has also received instruction from renowned artists during international workshops and masterclasses, notably from Lucile Boulanger, Joshua Ceatham, and Guido Balestracci. 

She currently performs with various ensembles in France and Europe on the viola da gamba and medieval vielle, such as La Chapelle Harmonique (V. Tournet), Agamemnon (F. Cardey), Les Lunaisiens (A. Marzorati), Concerto Soave (J-M. Aymes), Ars Figuralis (C. Escoffier), Matica de Flor (which she co-founded), The Poeticall Consort, and Ecco la primavera, at numerous festivals and concert venues (Saintes, La Cité de la Voix, Utrecht, Saorge, Granville, Les Méridiennes...). She holds a state teaching diploma (DE), and teaches at the Bourgoin-Jallieu Conservatory, where she launched the viola da gamba class in September 2024. An enthusiastic musician, she develops a multifaceted and colorful style of playing where timbres and styles converge.