Ann Ford, musician of the Enlightenment

Ann Ford is a woman who intends to make a living from her art. A friend of the greatest artists of her time, she frequented the great musicians Carl Friedrich Abel and Johan Christian Bach, as well as the painter Thomas Gainsborough and the writer Laurence Sterne. Attracted by unusual and unconventional instruments, she enjoyed singing while accompanying herself on musical glasses, the viola da gamba and the English guitar. Her concerts, which had a hint of scandal about them, attracted large crowds. But fame is often short-lived, and others quickly took her place by adopting her style. Ann Ford paved the way for female musicians in England and left her mark on her era with her resolutely free style.

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Joséphine Solus, soprano

Olivier Riehl, traverso

Florence Bolton, pardessus and bass viol

Benjamin Perrot, English guitar and theorbo

Jean Miguel Aristizabal, harpsichord