Carpe Diem, which in Latin means "Seize the day" that is "taking advantage of the moment" seemed like a good motto to express the ephemeral nature of music and the urgent need to share its pleasures. The musicians who compose it are all graduates of the center of Early Music in Geneva or the Schola Cantorum, two institutions known for their teaching of early music. They work in different formations and teach mostly in Geneva.

Geneva is the city where they meet to create new programs and have worked for 20 years, this has forged strong friendships amongst all the members of the group. Their album Dolci miei sospiri offers a look at the Italian secular music of the seventeenth century and reveals some aspects of Baroque affetti, contrasts and colors. The desire is to explore the different facets of the feeling of love, to express the contrasts of joy andsadness, through dances, fantasies, songs and madrigals.

Lisette Aubert-Milleret - viola da gamba.

Studied at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva in the class of Ariane Maurette.

She graduated in 1989 and completed her training in one year from Jordi Savall at the Schola Contorum Basiliensis.

She is part of various ensembles (Isabella D'Este, The Boréades, Carpe Diem and Arcane) with whom she regularly gives concerts in Switzerland and abroad.

She has also participated in several recordings and teaches the viola da gamba in private.

Florence Boeuf-Albert - recorder and viola da gamba.

Born in Geneva, studied at the Conservatory of Music in that city and received her graduate teaching in recorder at the Conservatory of Music in 1981. Continued her training at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva and with Gabriel Garrido received her certificate in 1982. Perfected in Paris for two years with Nicolas Burton-Page. In 1983, she chose to expand her training as a musician by studying the viola da gamba and obtained a certificate with honors in June 2003 after six years of study with Roberto Gini at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva.

Since 1979, she has taught flute at the Music Conservatory of Geneva. From 2002 to 2006 at the Popular Music Conservatory and since 2009 at the University of music of Geneva she has taught methodology to recorder students. She founded the "Ensemble Carpe Diem Geneva" with Lisette Aubert-Milleret in 1992 and the ensemble "All the delights" with Genevieve Faessler in 2005. She plays with other ensembles as a gamba player and recorder player and supports regular choirs in the Geneva area in Swizerland as well as France and Italy. Florence will record an album, in september 2011 with l'Ensemble Polhymnia, playing Charpentier under the Geneva composer, Eric Gaudibert.

Monique Bolli-Eigenmann - recorder and lute.

Born in Geneva, she undertook her musical studies at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. She received her certificate in 1987, and the professional degree of the Company Swiss music education.

Monique has taught at the Conservatory of Music of the Coast and currently teaches privately. She is involved in various early music concerts in Switzerland, France and Italy.

Christoph Pidoux - bassoon.

After being trained in reeds rebirth and following on from courses in France, Christoph undertook studies of the bassoon (Renaissance and Baroque) at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva with Claude Wassmer and graduated in 1992 with Lorenzo Alpert.

He participates in concerts in Switzerland with Senfl Ludwig Michel Piguet and other Baroque ensembles.

Jonathan Rubin - lute.

Jonathan was born in Sydney and graduated in 1952 in lute from the Schola Cantorum in 1977. As continuo, he has participated in countless productions of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jean-Claude Malgloire and Michel Corboz. From 1976 to 1982, he played in operatic productions in Zurich, as well as recordings and films of three Monteverdi operas performed by the duo Harnoncourt / Ponnelle.

He has taught at the Geneva Conservatory since 1980 and teaches regularly in Israel, Germany and Hong Kong. Since 1986, he has played with Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie. In addition to numerous recordings for Teldec, Erato, Harmonia Mundi and others, he has recorded an album of music from the sixteenth century of lute and bass viol at Gallo. He has published several works in Tree Edition, including an unusual transcript of two Gymnopédies by Erik Satie.

Dolci Miei Sospiri