Concert and chamber musician, the soloist Héloïse Gaillard is hailed by the national and international press for her musical sensitivity, his virtuosity and the contrasting subtlety of his playing.
She performs as a soloist in the most prestigious venues, in France and abroad: in Paris (Gaveau room, Champs Elysées Theater), in Metz (Arsenal), In Nantes (Congress Palace), Montpellier (Opéra), in many festivals (Crazy days in Nantes, Sand, Beaune, Ambronay), in London (Barbican), in Amsterdam (Opéra, Concertgebouw), in Berlin (Philharmonie), in Dresden and Leipzig (Opéra), in Stockholm (Concert hall), in Boston, At New York (Lincoln Center), in Latin America, in China, in Russia…
Solo oboe of the Spiritual Concert led by Hervé Niquet since 1996 and Flute solo overall The Astrée Concert under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, she has been invited to play as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic on several occasions, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra or with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. She participates in numerous recordings published on CD and DVD for Naxos, Glossa, EMI, Alpha…
Passionate about chamber music, sharing and discoveries, she creates in 1994 the Amarillis ensemble with which she won 3 First International Prizes. She provides artistic direction and all, under his impulse, checked in 24 records for the Ambrosie-Naïve labels, Ambronay, AgOgic, NoMadMusic, Sony Classical, Evidence classics.
« Héloïse Gaillard does real wonders
with its skin-deep sensitivity, bringing out his recorder,
from his baroque oboe magical sounds. »
The Sound Review
Agreed since 2012 by the Pays de la Loire region and the state and supported by the city of Angers, Amarillis is supported by Adami, la spedidam, the Orange Foundation, the Versailles Baroque Music Center.
Holder of a Certificate of Aptitude in Early Music, passionate about teaching from an early age, she is regularly invited to give Master classes in France, in England, in South America, in Asia.
She creates the baroque oboe class within the early music department of the CRR of Aix en Provence and teaches there. 2009 at 2015.
September 2019 to december 2020, she teaches baroque oboe at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris.
She also holds a degree in musicology from the Sorbonne.
In 2023, She creates, With the lyric artist Patricia Petibon, The International Academy Songs of Ulysses at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and the theater Le Dôme de Saumur.
Eclectic, passionate, concerned with transmitting and educating, she was the artistic director of the Festival des Heures musicales de Cunault in Maine et Loire between 2019 and 2021.
She is, since September 2021, Artistic director of cultural affairs of the community of agglomeration Saumur Val de Loire in charge of programming for the theater Le Dôme de Saumur and its agglomeration. Interview for the Courrier de l'Ouest (sept 2021)
A one hour portrait, directed by Mezzo and France 2, was dedicated to her.
France Music, the BBC, Half, Classical radio and Arte web live regularly broadcast its concerts.
Her recording for solo recorder by 12 fantasies by Georg Philipp Telemann received a Choc Classica and today makes reference.
Heloise Gaillard is an officer of the National Order of Merit.