David Plantier
began his apprenticeship of the violin at the age of five. After studying the modern violin at the Geneva Conservatory he devoted himself to the baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum of Basel, in the class of Chiara Banchini.

Since 2009 he has been first violin of Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. He also collaborates regularly with Le Concert des Nations of Jordi Savall, Café Zimmermann and Amarillis.

With his own ensemble Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, founded in 2003, he has been invited to the leading festivals of Europe and Japan, and has made several recordings, of music by Westhoff, Walther and Biber, all hailed by the international press.

It was as an ardent champion of Tartini’s music that he recorded and has performed in a duet with Annabelle Luis. This encouraged him to devise the programme Continuo, Addio!, which juxtaposes the magnificent repertory of the Scuola delle Nazione (Tartini and his disciples Nardini, Lahoussaye, et al.) and the first duets for violin and cello from the baroque to the romantic period. In 2020 he released a recording of unpublished sonatas by the master of Padua. A recording dedicated to sonatas by Jean-Marie Leclair has been released in 2021.

David Plantier teaches the baroque violin at the Musik-Akademie of Basel and he plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1766.