Lionel Meunier
Conductor Lionel Meunier is the director of the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, widely acclaimed for its interpretations of Schütz and other 17th and 18th century composers. He is also a singer whose bass voice has been heard on some of Vox Luminis' recordings.
Meunier was born on May 12, 1981, in Clamecy, in the department of Nièvre in central France. As a child, he studied recorder and trumpet and had a classical education in solfège. Meunier attended the Institut Supérieure de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur, Belgium, a city where he continues to reside. His teachers there included Tatiana Babut du Marès and Hugo Reyne. He graduated in 2004 and went on for further studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands with Rita Dams and Peter Kooy. Meunier had an education in historically informed choral performance as a singer with various leading vocal ensembles in northwestern Europe, including the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Amsterdam Baroque Choir, and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, performing under leading directors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Jean Tubéry, and Ton Koopman. In 2004, Meunier and keyboardist Francis Penning formed the Brussels-based ensemble Vox Luminis, of which Meunier remains the director. He continues to perform as a singer, with a repertory not restricted to the Baroque and including such works as Franck's Mass in G major and Mozart's Mass in C major, K. 317 ("Coronation"). As his career developed, Meunier has found himself in demand for master classes in various countries.
Meunier and Vox Luminis have been especially acclaimed for their recordings, which have appeared on the Ricercar and Alpha labels. Meunier's catalog includes some 15 recordings, beginning with Samuel Scheidt: Sacre Cantiones in 2010 and including both well-known works such as Bach cantatas and more adventurous repertory such as the Brockes-Passion of Reinhard Keiser. Meunier's 2011 recording with Vox Luminis of Heinrich Schütz's Musicalische Exequien was critically acclaimed and won major awards, including Recording of the Year from Britain's Gramophone magazine. In 2021, Meunier led the Freiburger BarockConsort in a recording of the Requiem in F minor by Heinrich Ignaz von Biber.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 14 Apr 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach & Telemann: Himmelfahrt
Freiburger Barockorchester, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 12 Apr 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Buxtehude : Abendmusiken
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 Jun 2018
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Heinrich Schütz : Musicalische Exequien
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Ricercar on 12 May 2011
Gramophone Record of the Year24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Magnificat - Handel: Dixit Dominus
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 17 Nov 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Actus Tragicus (Cantatas BWV 106, 150, 131, 12)
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 Nov 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
English Royal Funeral Music (Purcell, Morley, Tomkins)
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Ricercar on 26 Feb 2012
The Qobuz Essential DiscographyGramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Bart Jacobs
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 10 Feb 2017
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Bach (Heinrich, J. Christoph, J. Michael, J. Sebastian) : Kantaten
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 14 Jun 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
J., J.-Ch., J.-M Bach : Motetten
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Ricercar on 18 May 2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Kerll & Fux : Requiems
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, François Joubert-Caillet, Scorpio Collectif
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Ricercar on 19 Aug 2016
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 1 Nov 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lassus: Biographie musicale, Vol. 5 (Lassus l'Européen)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Musique en Wallonie on 2 Oct 2015
24-Bit 176.4 kHz - Stereo -
Biber: Requiem
Freiburger BarockConsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 26 Feb 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Scheidt: Sacrae Cantiones
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 6 May 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Renaissance Collection
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 1 Jan 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo