Talented instrumentalist, teacher, musical director and multidisciplinary artist, Jean-Marc Aymes has been a major player in French musical life for 30 years. Jean-Marc Aymes is a harpsichordist and artistic director of the Concerto Soave ensemble and the Mars en Baroque Festival. He has been professor of harpsichord at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon since 2009. He studied at the Toulouse, The Hague and Brussels Conservatoires before winning the Bruges and Malmö early chamber music competitions. In 1992, together with the soprano María Cristina Kiehr, he founded Concerto Soave, a musical ensemble of variable size, of which he is now the artistic director. Specialising in 17th-century Italian repertoire, the ensemble has acquired an international reputation. Jean-Marc Aymes has conducted a number of opera and oratorio productions (Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, etc.), including many world premieres (Cavalli, Perti, Colonna, etc.). He also has a career as a solo harpsichordist. He was the first to record the complete published keyboard music of Girolamo Frescobaldi. His discography includes more than sixty recordings. Since 2007, he has been artistic director of the Mars en Baroque festival in Marseille.