Marie-Anne Dachy

Marie-Anne Dachy obtained a Premier Prix in harpsichord with distinction and a Higher Diploma in Charles Koenig's class at the Brussels CRM. She also obtained a First Prize in chamber music in the class of Guy Van Waas at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons.

She has taken part in several Master Classes, under the direction of Bob van Asperen and Davitt Moroney, among others. She decided to devote herself to the harpsichord after studying piano with Robert Leuridan and taking part in fortepiano courses at the Château de Deulin under his direction.

Professor of harpsichord at IMEP for eight years, she also gave harpsichord and basso continuo lessons at the academies of Jodoigne, Waterloo, Auvelais and Saint-Gilles as well as at the Académie Internationale d’Été de Wallonie. She is also in charge of the harpsichord teaching course at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and continues to share this joy of transmitting and teaching during workshops, master classes and private lessons.

She also has a passion for the clavichord and owns the historic 17th-century Longueville organ.

Thanks to the complicity of her husband, Jean-Luc Wolfs-Dachy, harpsichord maker, she participates in the search for the sound specific to each instrument and is thus able to touch harpsichords in all their rich diversity. Decorating soundboards according to period models completes her approach to Baroque sensibility.

Marie-Anne Dachy regularly performs in recital, as a soloist, and in chamber music with various chamber music ensembles including the Ensemble Conversations which she founded some thirty years ago. This variable-geometry ensemble enables her to tackle a wide repertoire, from H. Schütz to J. Haydn.

She plays continuo in various early music ensembles and orchestras.

The Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie regularly calls on her for continuo.

Her love of literature has led her to give numerous concerts with actors, in which text and music engage in dialogue. She was responsible for the musical side of "Théorème", a film and publication by visual artist Michel Lorand, based on Fr. Couperin's L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin, in collaboration with writer Pascal Quignard.

With her son, harpsichordist Julien Wolfs, she forms a four-handed duo on harpsichord or clavichord, the ensemble « For two to play », which gives numerous recitals and shows with the help of actors.

She has recorded "Imitar le parole", a recital on several harpsichords, for the Arsis label, as well as a cd "For two to play" for the Ligia Digital label, both very well received in musical circles. "We particularly admire the gourmet sensuality of touch" Nicolas Blanmont

Langue : French