Jean Rondeau is a French harpsichordist and pianist born 23 April 1991. He began playing harpsichord at age six after hearing the instrument on the radio, and spent a decade studying under Blandine Verlet before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and, later, the Guildhall School of Music in London under Carole Cerasi and James Johnstone. In 2012 he won first place in the harpsichord competition at the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges and the European Union Baroque Orchestra’s Development Trust Prize, and in 2014 he won the Young Soloist award in the Prix des Radios Francophones Publiques.

Rondeau’s 2015 debut album Imagine and 2016 follow-up Vertigo: Rameau, Royer, both released on Warner’s Erato label, helped bring the harpsichord to a wider audience; the Washington Post called him “a master of his instrument with the sort of communicative gifts normally encountered in musicians twice his age.” Alongside his solo career he performs with the Baroque quartet Nevermind and leads the jazz ensemble Note Forget, and is widely credited with modernizing the public image of the harpsichord and French Baroque repertoire for younger audiences.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rondeau_(musician)
• https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/jean-rondeau