Harpsichordist & continuo player
Louise Acabo seated in front of her harpsichord
Photo of Louise Acabo in front of her harpsichord
Photo of Louise Acabo in front of her harpsichord

Winner of several international competitions, Louise divides her time between Paris and Basel, performing as a soloist on the harpsichord and various instruments in a wide repertoire of ensemble music.

Louise discovered the harpsichord at the age of 7, and studied with Aline Zylberajch for 12 years before entering the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Her first class was with Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, followed by Francesco Corti.

At the age of 19, Louise won first prize in the Concours Corneille international harpsichord competition. A little later, she won the international La Capella Musicale competition in Milan, as well as the Bach Wettbewerb competition in Leipzig, and was also a prizewinner at the Fondation Royaumont and the Jeunes Talents association.

A much-appreciated soloist, Louise is regularly invited to perform at festivals and concert series across Europe, including the Oude Muziek festival in Utrecht, Cembalo in der Stadt Basel, Bel-Air Claviers, l'Entracte, the Musée de Neuchâtel and the Musée de Colmar, Infinity festival Basel, Festival Aurore and others.

Photo of Louise Acabo in front of her harpsichord
Photo of Louise Acabo in front of her harpsichord

As a continuo player, Louise has broadened her repertoire and knowledge by performing in a variety of ensembles, both small-scale (the Banshies, Tumbleweeds) and large-scale (Pygmalion, Jupiter, Le Concert de la Loge, Masques, etc.), as well as working as a conductor and vocal coach (Teater Basel).

At the same time, Louise had a keen interest in teaching, which she was able to pursue for four years at the music school in Riedisheim, or as a replacement at the Schola C. B. It was at the same institution, at the end of a master's degree in pedagogy, that she was awarded the prize for best dissertation by the Walter & Corina Christen-Marchal Foundation for her work on 'Le corps & les techniques de clavecin dans la France des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles' (The body and harpsichord techniques in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France).

Photography of Louise Acabo

“Very young, with plenty of room to grow, Acabo is a performer with enormous international projection”

– Luis Gago, El Pais

Next
events

  • Händel, La Resurrezione

    June 13, 2024
    20:30
    Festival de St-Denis (FR)
    Le Concert de la Loge
    + infos
  • Händel, La Resurrezione

    June 15, 2024
    20:30
    Festival de Froville (FR)
    Le Concert de la Loge
    + infos
  • Récital de clavecin

    June 18, 2024
    20:15
    Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH)
    + infos
  • « Let thy charms »

    June 22, 2024
    Gerberoy (FR)
    Mathilde Ortscheidt & The Banshies
    + infos
  • « Let thy charms »

    June 30, 2024
    Pré-St-Gervais (FR)
    The Banshies
  • Concerto Brandbourgeois n°5

    July 6, 2024
    Abbaye de Port-Royal des champs (FR)
    Le Concert de la Loge
  • Cordes en ballade

    July 9, 2024
    Cruas, Abbatiale Sainte-Marie (FR)
    Julien Chauvin , Anne Parisot, Atsushi Sakaï
    + infos
  • Triple concerto BWV 1044

    July 13, 2024
    Deauville, Festival Promenades en Pays d’Auge (FR)
    Le Concert de la Loge
    + infos
  • Ad Vitam Aeternam

    July 23, 2024
    Festival Musique et mémoire (FR)
    Ensemble Tumbleweeds
    + infos
see past concerts
listen on youtube

Gaspard Leroux – Sarabande grave in D minor

Utrecht Early Music Festival
2022

Ascanio Mayone – Ancidetemi Pur

Utrecht Early Music Festival
2019

J.S. Bach – Harpsichord concerto BWV 1058

Le concert de la loge,
France musique

J.S. Bach – Trio n°4 in E minor; I.Adagio/Vivace (arr. for cello & harpsichord)

Cello – Martin Egigi