Bruno Cocset

Baroque cellist and viola da gamba player Bruno Cocset is an influential figure on the French early music scene. For the first part of his career, Cocset was active as a freelance cellist and gamba player, performing and recording with many of the leading Baroque music ensembles of the day. These included Les Musiciens du Louvre, with which Cocset appeared on a recording of Rameau's opera Platée in 1990. In 1996, Cocset created his own ensemble, Les Basses Réunies, focusing on the music of such neglected composers as Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco and Jean-Baptiste Barrière. With that group, he has toured widely in France and abroad. In 2022, he was heard on a recording of Beethoven's cello sonatas and with the early music ensemble Le Caravansérail on a recording of Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater.