Soprano Anne Azéma is a versatile figure who has been active as a conductor, scholar, stage director, and educator. She has become familiar to U.S. audiences since assuming the music directorship of the Boston Camerata in 2008.
Azéma was born in Niort, in western France, on October 19, 1957. In 1993, she turned to early music, specializing in that field ever since. In France, her specialty was the vernacular song of France and Provence in the Middle Ages. Several of her solo recordings, The Unicorn (1994), Le jeu d'amour (1997), Provence mystique (1999), and Troubadour Songs...