A rare ondist with a singular path, Cécile Lartigau positions her work at the crossroads of contemporary music, experimental improvisation, and the great orchestral repertoire. A sought-after performer, she has appeared alongside prestigious ensembles including the Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande — under the baton of conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons, Simone Young, Maxime Pascal, and Bertrand de Billy. In 2024, Cécile recorded Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie for Deutsche Grammophon.

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Alongside her orchestral work, she is deeply engaged in cross-disciplinary projects combining music, performance, theatre, and video. From 2018 to 2025, she participated as an improviser in Heiner Goebbels’ major production Everything that happened and would happen, a hybrid stage work that toured across Europe, as well as New York, Saint Petersburg, and Taipei.

 

Cécile Lartigau also maintains a rich solo and chamber music career. She regularly performs in a trio for piano, ondes Martenot, and percussion, as well as in a duo for ondes and voice, exploring a repertoire that bridges past and present, often enriched by new commissions. She brings rigor and inventiveness to the defense of singular musical forms at the intersection of aesthetics.

 

She collaborates regularly with specialized ensembles such as Le Balcon and the Emex Ensemble, as well as with contemporary composers. With Emex, she recorded Pièces de chair II by Sylvano Bussotti for Deutschlandfunk Genuin, reflecting her commitment to avant-garde music and the revival of rarely heard works. She also contributed to the rediscovery of the first known piece for ondes Martenot and orchestra, a Poème Symphonique by Dimitri Lévidis.

Through her work, she champions a vibrant and forward-looking vision of the ondes Martenot — one deeply rooted in the music history of the 20th century and firmly oriented toward the artistic practices of tomorrow.

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​Cecile plays an Ondes Musicales Dierstein made by Jean-Loup Dierstein and a Palme Leo Maurel.