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Conductor, choirmaster and educator Nicole Corti was trained at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance (CNSMD) in Lyon, where she was first a student of Bernard Tétu. She succeeded him as the director of the choral conducting programme there in 2008. Her career has also been marked by decisive encounters with conductors Sergiu Celibidache and Pierre Dervaux, ethnomusicologist Yvette Grimaud and organist and composer Raffi Ourgandjian. Nicole Corti was the director of the choirs at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1993 to 2006, where she rebuilt the different vocal ensembles and brought a new dimension to the musical activities of the cathedral in both the liturgical services and in concerts. At Notre Dame she multiplied the number of programmes and recordings and expanded the repertoire to works of the 20th and 21st centuries while continuing to conduct works from the Romantic and oratorio repertoires (Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky ...). Nicole Corti has had the same ambition of excellence and discovery with the Chœur Britten, which she created in 1981.The ensemble quickly attained an international reputation, thanks to their numerous concerts given in Europe and in the United States. The open-mindedness of the Chœur Britten and its recognizable sound, based on natural vocal emission, have prompted many composers to write many bold and original works for the ensemble. Nicole Corti also collaborates with major orchestras who entrust her with the preparation of their choruses: the Ensemble orchestral de Paris under the direction of John Nelson (Bach's Passions and the B Minor Mass, L'Enfance du Christ by Berlioz ...), the Orchestre National de Lyon under the direction of Emmanuel Krivine
