Emmanuel Resche-Caserta

Franco-Italian violinist born in 1988, he is concertmaster of the baroque orchestra Les Arts Florissants and musical assistant to its principal conductor and founder, William Christie. In recent years he has collaborated on many of the ensemble’s major operatic productions, especially in the French Baroque repertoire: Charpentier’s Médée at the Opéra de Paris and Teatro Real Madrid; Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra Comique; Rameau’s Platée at the Theater an der Wien; and Rameau, Maître à Danser at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since 2015 he has taken part in all of the ensemble’s national and international tours throughout Europe, America, and Asia. He is highly regarded in both the Italian and French styles. He was recently invited to lead from the violin with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto and Orfeus in Stockholm, and he made his conducting debut in 2025 with Rameau’s Dardanus at the Radio France Auditorium with the orchestra Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie. As concertmaster, he has collaborated with the orchestra of the Drottningholm Court Theatre in Sweden under Francesco Corti, and with the Liceu Orchestra in Barcelona for Giulio Cesare, conducted by William Christie. After studying political science at Sciences Po Paris and art history, he devoted himself entirely to music, travelling widely to deepen his knowledge of different schools of baroque violin playing. He studied at ESMUC in Barcelona, the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, the Scarlatti Conservatory in Palermo, and the Juilliard School in New York. His dual cultural background and his interest in the fine arts enrich his playing and his artistic research. He has given masterclasses at the conservatoires of Paris and Lyon, at ESMUC in Barcelona, at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and at the Juilliard School in New York. He is also musical director of the orchestral projects of Ensemble Hemiolia, created between France and Italy, including the Corelli: Trionfo Romano project—performed in Versailles, at Palazzo Farnese in Rome, and at the Utrecht Festival—and the reconstruction of the previously unknown oratorio Atalia by Gasparini, based on Racine’s Athalie. In 2019 he won the audition that secured the support of the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation (Amsterdam) and the loan of a Francesco Ruggeri violin (1675) for ten years. Since 2022 he has been professor of baroque violin at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.