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Marielou Jacquard Playing the acrobatic feat between Baroque music and contemporary creation, Marielou Jacquard cultivates her taste for eclecticism in the diversity of her repertoire. She began her vocal training at a very young age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, then at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin) where she studied with Martin Bruns and Christine Schäfer. She also studied with soprano Julia Varady, Wolfram Rieger for Lieder, and Peter Berne for Bel Canto. In 2014, noticed for her musicality and vocal agility by conductor Wolfgang Katschner, she performed the role of Costanza in Handel's Riccardo Primo at the Handel Festival Halle and the Ludwigsburg Festival, in a production by the Lautten Company. This marked the beginning of an affinity for Baroque music that would solidify over the years. She sang the role of Nero in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with René Jacobs during a residency at Royaumont. Most recently, she performed the role of Juno in Charpentier's Actéon in a production by Geoffroy Jourdain's Les Cris de Paris, directed by Benjamin Lazare. She regularly collaborates with Vincent Dumestre's Le Poème Harmonique, Sébastien Daucé's Ensemble Correspondances, and Raphaël Pichon's Pygmalion Orchestra, performing 17th-century Italian music as well as French Romantic repertoire. Marielou is also deeply involved in contemporary music. She sang the title role in the premiere of Lady Macbeth by free jazz guitarist and composer Marc Ducret at the Lille Opera. She is the dedicatee of several works, including Héloïse Werner's *Le Coeur Crucifié*, Lise Borel's *Les Chansons pour Pauline*, and Kaoli Ono's *Ceux qui nous attendaient*. In recent years, she has performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy, the Royal Chapel of Versailles, the Ambronay Festival, and the Musica Sacra Festival (Quito, Ecuador). In Berlin, she has performed at the Tacheles, Radial System, and Konzerthaus. Her voice, described as "deeply grounded, with a broad resonance and a storyteller's prosody, supple and articulate" (Charles Arden, *Olyrix*), naturally leads her to the art of the recital. She participated in the inaugural class of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy of Lied and Mélodie and gave numerous concerts, notably with pianists Kunal Lahiry, Celia Oneto Bensaid, Lauriane Corneille, and Kaoli Ono. She is also committed to promoting the work of women composers, collaborating on several occasions with the Cité des Compositrices (an initiative of La Boîte à Pépites and the Un Temps pour Elles festival) as well as with the Femmes artistes, Femmes d’action festival. Passionate about acting, she performed the roles of Sascha, Ivanov's lover, in Chekhov's eponymous play, and later Hitler in Heiner Müller's Germania at the Berlin Academy of Arts.