Marion FERMÉ

Marion FERMÉ

Marion Fermé was born in 1977. At first she learns the recorder and the piano at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. She then studies with Pierre Hamon the flautist, and wins the first prize in the joint competition of the Paris music academies. While going on with the piano and recorder, she graduates from the Sorbonne with a degree in English and Russian and gets her diploma in international studies at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. This is when she decides to devote herself to music entirely. She enters the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where she studies the recorder in Peter van Heygen’s class and gets her soloist diploma in Ancient music in 2003. Because of her keen interest in medieval music she chooses to carry on her training with Pedro Memelsdorff and Pierre Hamon.

Marion is a founding member of the Haagse Courante ensemble which is dedicated to 17 th and 18 th century baroque music and a guest of many European festivals (Festival of Ambronay, young talents concert, Oude Muziek Utrecht Festival in Fringe, Printemps baroque du Sablon in Brussels, Festival Midis-Minimes in Belgium, Festival d’orgue in Jura...) Beside all this, Marion cooperated with Luteduo to create La Luth Enchantée (The Magic Lute), an ensemble which plays J.S Bach’s works regularly in France and Germany ( Festival Bach in Combrailles 2004, Flötenhof ..). Finally she is a member of the T’Andernaken Consort renaissance recorder trio who won the special prize of the Jury at Bruges international competition of early music in 2003. She was also a guest at the Musica Antigua Festival in Barcelona in 2004.

Marion is keenly interested in the different forms of musical cultures and expressions and is open to the European traditional musics as well as contemporary music. Apart from her concert activities, Marion teaches the recorder in Hamburg where she has lived since 2004.