Bruno Cocset

Baroque cellist and viola da gamba player Bruno Cocset is an influential figure on the French early music scene. He has played with many of Europe's leading historical performance groups and is the leader of his own, Les Basses Réunies. Cocset was born in 1963 in Tours, France. He attended the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours there, studying cello with Didier Aubert and earning gold medals in cello, chamber music, and music theory. Cocset went on to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, studying with Alain Meunier and Jean Deplace, but he was unhappy and drop...