Gaétan Jarry

French conductor and organist Gaétan Jarry is the founder of the Marguerite Louise ensemble, a Baroque choir and orchestra. An alum of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Jarry also won numerous first prizes at the conservatories of Versailles and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

Jarry is also one of the principal guest conductors of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles, for which he has conducted numerous productions, such as Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. With around fifteen recordings celebrated by international critics, his discography is largely devoted to French Baroque music in which he infuses the aesthetics of Marguerite Louise into the repertoire for large choirs and orchestras, operas and grand royal motets by Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Rameau, and Mondonville. 

As a soloist, Jarry released the album Noëls Baroques à Versailles, recorded at the Grandes Orgues de la Chapelle Royale de Versailles in collaboration with the Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. He followed this with recordings of French Baroque organ repertoire, the organ concertos of G.F. Handel, and the opera David et Jonathas by M.A. Charpentier.