Cécile Lartigau

Cécile Lartigau is a rare ondist whose career bridges contemporary music, experimental improvisation, and the orchestral repertoire. She has performed with leading ensembles such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under conductors including Vasily Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons, Simone Young, Maxime Pascal, and Bertrand de Billy. In 2024, she recorded Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie for Deutsche Grammophon.

Deeply engaged in cross-disciplinary projects, Lartigau participated from 2018 to 2025 as an improviser in Heiner Goebbels’ Everything that happened and would happen, touring Europe, New York, Saint Petersburg, and Taipei. She also maintains a rich solo and chamber music career, performing in a piano–ondes Martenot–percussion trio and an ondes–voice duo, often premiering new works.

Committed to avant-garde and rare repertoire, she collaborates with ensembles such as Le Balcon and Emex Ensemble, recording works like Sylvano Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II and contributing to the rediscovery of Dimitri Lévidis’ Poème Symphonique, the first known piece for ondes Martenot and orchestra. Through her artistry, Lartigau promotes a vibrant, forward-looking vision of the ondes Martenot, rooted in 20th-century music history and oriented toward tomorrow’s artistic practices.