Matthieu Romanens is active in a number of ensembles specialising in medieval and Renaissance music, including Le Miroir de Musique (Baptiste Romain), Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Dominique Vellard), Peregrina (Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett), Leones (Marc Lewon), Per-Sonat (Sabine Lutzenberger) and La Cetra Vokalensemble Basel (Carlos Federico Sepúlveda). He has taken part in a number of critically acclaimed recordings: Thélème, Baisiez moi, 2021, 5 Diapasons, Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022 in the Early Music category; La Morra, Mirabilia Musica, 2021, 5 Diapasons; Capella Itineris, Daniel Speer, ein Vierfaches Musicalisches Kleeblatt, 2023; Peregrina, Vox Dilecti Mei, 2024; Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Timor Mortis, 2024. 

Matthieu Romanens regularly extends his activities to 17th-century baroque music, whether with the Ensemble der Innsbrucker Hofmusik (Marian Polin), the Solistes de la Grue Baroque (Michele Vannelli), Capella Itineris (Marc Pauchard), Capella Concertata (Yves Corboz) or Ad petram (Christoph Anzböck).

Also trained as a musicologist, he works as a scientific collaborator on the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis research project ‘Carmina Burana Online’. As part of this project, he is writing a doctoral thesis on the Latin / Middle High German songs compiled in the Codex Buranus.

Matthieu Romanens is also active in community work. In particular, with La Grue Baroque, an association he set up in 2017, he promotes the dissemination of early music while working to enhance the architectural and natural heritage of his native Gruyère region.

Residency project:

Research residency and workshops.