Françoise Lasserre

Françoise Lasserre (born 7 April 1955) is a French conductor and artistic director of the Akadêmia ensemble since 1986.

[1] At the beginning of the 1980s, she worked under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe within La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent, then, as a chorister with Michel Corboz.

[2] First "Ensemble vocal régional de Champagne-Ardenne", in residence in Reims, the ensemble's project was born thanks to the support of the Regional Council and Bernard Stasi, became professional ten years later changing its name to Akadêmia with the instrumentalists and in reference to the Platonic Academy and the Italian Accademia of the Renaissance.

She taught choral conducting for two years at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers.

[2] In 2012, she prepared an opera, Orfeo, par-delà le Gange[3] in India with an Odissi dancer, Hindu musicians, and young Indian singers.