COURSE
GERMAN BAROQUE MOTETS, FROM SCHÜTZ TO BACH
SINGERS & KEYBOARD players
Marine Fribourg & Marc Meisel
10 - 15 August 2026
Instruction
Marine Fribourg singer and choir director
Marine Fribourg is a singer and choir director.
She graduated from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands), where she trained in early music singing with Peter Kooij, Michael Chance, and Jill Feldman. Today, she trains many singers and choir directors during workshops and masterclasses.
She performs throughout Europe in soloist ensembles, including with Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe, Tasto Solo / Guillermo Perez, Faenza / Marco Horvat, B’Rock vocal consort / Andreas Küppers, and as an oratorio soloist, where she is particularly appreciated for her interpretation of Bach’s music, notably with the Netherlands Bach Society / Johanna Soller, Gli Angeli Genève / Stephan MacLeod, Il Convito / Maude Gratton, Le Banquet Céleste (collective), Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier.
She founded and directed the Bergamasque vocal ensemble from 2007 to 2023. She is also the artistic director and mezzo-soprano of the Damask vocal quartet, and performs regularly in recital with pianist and fortepianist Flore Merlin. She has been associated with the artistic and educational projects of the Académie Bach for over ten years.
Marc Meisel harpsichordist and organist
Marc Meisel is a French-Swiss harpsichordist and organist.
Alongside his work as a soloist, he plays basso continuo on both the harpsichord and the great organ with the ensembles InAlto and A Nocte Temporis. He is a member of the orchestras Les Siècles and Capriccio Barockorchester. In 2011, he created the Mischeli-Konzerte concert season (Switzerland), for which he is the artistic director. He has created several programs for organ and voice in which the organ takes on an orchestral dimension. Among them is Cantates imaginaires, composed of Bach arias and contemporary recitatives composed by himself.
Together with Saskia Salembier, he founded the Liberati Choir and Orchestra. Liberati explores the different perspectives opened up by historically informed conducting. In addition, the musicians experiment with new models of organization, combining freedom and responsibility. In 2022, they perform Handel’s Messiah without a conductor, conducting mainly by ear and shared breathing. This Messiah takes them to several festivals in Switzerland, Germany, and France. In 2024, a film, L’Orchestre Réinventé, directed by Sylvain Trousselle, recounts this first experience. In 2025, they perform Handel’s Judas Maccabeus.
He trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. He now teaches Baroque Languages at the Conservatoire de Nanterre (France). He has also been organist at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Reinach (Switzerland) since 2006.