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Session Report: viola da gamba player Caroline Nicolas on recording early-Baroque French music

2026-07-03T08:52:00

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Canadian viola da gamba player Caroline Nicolas tells Charlotte Gardner about recording her intimate and meditative debut solo album of early-Baroque French music

For many artists, the when and why of making a first recording can represent a drawn-out dilemma. Yet this doesn’t appear to have been the case for New York-based Canadian viola da gamba player Caroline Nicolas with her debut album, Pièces en solitude. ‘The timing felt right,’ she tells me in easy, upbeat tones that suggest the decision was genuinely as simple as that. ‘I’m at that point in my career where I’ve been playing a lot of recitals, and so it felt like I have something to say.’..

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