# Iakovos Pappas

Modèle:Infobox person/WikidataIákovos Pappás (modern grec: Ιάκωβος Παππάς) is a musician specializing in baroque music, born in Athens (Greece) in 1964 .

## Biography

He took harpsichord lessons from Anne-Marie Paillard Beckensteiner and Bob van Asperen. His predilection for vocal music led him to take an interest in rhetoric and declamation, irreplaceable ways of properly understanding the works of 17th and 18th centuries. His research has resulted in a coherent and clear theory of vocal emission and the mechanism of pronunciation, which has overturned prevailing practices in the interpretation of Baroque music. He is therefore one of the few in France qualified to teach sung declamation. His early and extensive practice of the continuo led to collaborations with nearly all of the French baroque ensembles.
Choir director at the Versailles Baroque Music Center from 1993 to 1997, he founded an ensemble, Almazis, with which he puts his research into practice. His close collaboration with Philippe Lénaël resulted in such works as Zémire & Azor by André Modeste Grétry, Isle des fous by Egidio Duni, Côté cour côté jardin and Histoires sacrées by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
In 2005, he staged his first production, Les Libertines baroques, to great acclaim from audiences and the media. He was the first to present a show based on the erotic music and texts of the 18th century.
His performance in the comic opera Le Maréchal Ferrant in July 2007 met with unambiguous acclaim in the press. In his review for The World of Music, Marc Vignal stated that "This is how French comic opera should be approached".
Furthermore, he staged the production of two significant Baroque operas: Lully-Molière's Les Amants Magnifiques and Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.In addition, he directed Jean de La Fontaine's Fables.
In 2009 he oversaw Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, as well as Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully and in 2010, he directed his own production of Le Carnaval de Venise. In 2011 he staged and directed the world premiere of Egidio Duni 's comic opera The Two Hunters & the Milkmaid.
In 2015 he presented La Lyre Maçonnique at the Péniche Opéra, which was revived in 2016 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as part of the exhibition La franc-maçonnerie .

## Discography

* Pancrace Royer 's harpsichord pieces
* Gaspard Le Roux 's harpsichord pieces
* harpsichord pieces by Jean-François Dandrieu
* the harpsichord sonatas of Giovanni Benedetto Platti
* the transcription of the sonatas op. 1 by Antonio Vivaldi
* Nicolas Bernier 's little motets
* Henry Madin 's masses and motets
* Spiritual hymns of Jean Racine by Jean-Noël Marchand
* the serious and comic cantatas of Nicolas Racot de Grandval
* the serious and drinking airs of Philippe Courbois
* Blaise the cobbler by François-André Danican Philidor
* The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine set to music by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
* Vasta Queen of Bordelia by Alexis Piron, (MAG 358.409).
* Trio sonatas for harpsichord and violin by Charles-François Clément, (MAG 358.435).
* Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poems set to music, works by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, Jean-Baptiste Morin, René Drouard du Bousset, (July 7, 9 & 10, 2020, MAG 358.427).
* The Isle of Fools by Egidio Duni (January 6-8, 2024, MAG-62).

## External links

* The Almazis ensemble
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