Emmanuelle Haïm

Although she never studied conducting formally, conductor and harpsichordist Emmanuelle Haïm has risen to become one of the world's top conductors of Baroque opera and choral music. She is the director of her own Baroque ensemble, Le Concert d'Astrée. Haïm was born in Paris on May 11, 1962. In her deep ancestry was a family of Breton organ makers, and her stepfather passed time as friends with both András Schiff and Zoltán Kocsis. Haïm was inspired to take up the piano, and she and her siblings performed chamber music at these high-level gatherings. She soon decided on a musi...