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Emmanuel Resche-Caserta
Emmanuel Resche-Caserta is a Franco-Italian violinist born in 1988. He is concertmaster of Les Arts Florissants and musical assistant to its founder, William Christie. In these roles, he contributes to the ensemble’s major stage productions, most recently Charpentier’s Médée at the Paris Opera and Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique. In September 2025, he was invited to conduct Les Arts Florissants for the first time during the South American tour of Le Jardin des Voix, performing The Fairy Queen in Montevideo and Bogotá.
Show moreRecognised for his profound and inspired mastery of the Italian and French styles, he is invited to perform as concertmaster and to conduct other orchestras, including Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie in Rameau’s Dardanus at Radio France in 2025, Tafelmusik in Toronto and Orfeus in Stockholm. He also leads his own Franco-Italian projects, such as Gasparini’s oratorio Atalia and Trionfo Romano, created with Ensemble Hemiolia.
During the 2025/2026 season, he co-conducts Les Arts Florissants with William Christie on a Handel tour featuring Sandrine Piau, and makes his debut as guest music director with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in Amsterdam, as well as with the Italian Youth Orchestra at the Rome Opera and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
Emmanuel is also the author of a book of interviews with William Christie, commissioned in 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Les Arts Florissants and published by Actes Sud under the title Cultiver l’émotion.
After studying at Sciences Po Paris and pursuing studies in Art History, Emmanuel decided to devote himself entirely to music. He studied at ESMUC in Barcelona, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), the Palermo Conservatory and the Juilliard School in New York.
Since 2019, he has played a 1675 Francesco Ruggeri violin on loan from the Jumpstart Foundation in Amsterdam. He has given masterclasses at the Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique et de Danse in Paris and Lyon, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and the Juilliard School. He has been Professor of Baroque Violin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2022.
