Antoine Sicot is a contemporary French soloist singer specialising in the baroque repertoire for bass voice.
Biography
Born in Saint-Ouen-de-Sécherouvre in Orne, Sicot worked a lot during the 1980s with the Baroque music ensemble Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the "baroqueux" movement directed by William Christie.
He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble alongside Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Étienne Lestringant, Philippe Cantor, Gregory Reinhart, François Fauché etc.
He also collaborated with the Ensemble Clément Janequin, La Chapelle Royale, the Ensemble Organum etc.
Selected discography
With Les Arts Florissants
1982: Antienne "O" de l'Avent by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1982: H.414 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1983: H.482 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1984: Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1984: Airs de Cour by Michel Lambert
1986: Le Reniement de saint Pierre H.424 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1986: Dido and Eneas by Henry Purcell
1987: Selva morale e spirituale by Claudio Monteverdi
1989: by Luigi Rossi
1990: Le Malade imaginaire H 495 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
With Ensemble Clément Janequin
1982: Le Chant des Oyseaulx by Clément Janequin
1982: Octonaires De La Vanité Du Monde by Paschal de L'Estocart
1984: Amours de Ronsard by Antoine de Bertrand
1985: Fricassée parisienne on Harmonia Mundi
1987: Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz by Heinrich Schütz
1987: La Chasse by Clément Janequin
1988: Chansons by Josquin des Prez
1988: Messe L'homme armé et Requiem by Pierre de la Rue
2002: Missa Et ecce terrae motus by Antoine Brumel
With La Chapelle Royale
1992: Missa Viri Galilei by Palestrina (Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale and Ensemble Organum)
With Ensemble Organum
1985: Songs of the Church of Rome - Byzantine Period
1986: Missa Pange lingua by Josquin des Prez
1988: Chants de l'église Milanaise
1989: Carmina Burana
1990: The Play of the Pilgrimage to Emmaus. 1990: Messe de Tournai 1991: Old Roman chant 1992: Requiem by Johannes Ockeghem 1994: Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge 1995: Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut 2004: - Codex Calixtinus
References
External links
Antoine Sicot on Ensemble Organum
Site de l'ensemble Les Arts Florissants
Cantate BWV 4 - solistes: Étienne Rosset, Antoine Sicot on YouTube
People from Orne
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people French basses 21st-century French male opera singers Operatic basses 20th-century French male opera singers