This recognition has come in the form of major awards, including the 2022 Diapason d’Or of the Year for his recording of concertos by Vivaldi, Locatelli and Leclair (harmonia mundi), and the 2022 Ambassador of the Year Award from the European Early Music Network (REMA), as well as numerous other recording awards and a cover feature in The Strad magazine in February 2022.

As a soloist, performing on both Baroque and modern violins, Théotime Langlois de Swarte regularly performs concertos by all the great Baroque masters, as well as Haydn and Mozart. He has appeared with Les Arts Florissants, Le Consort, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Versailles, Holland Baroque, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Les Ombres and the Orchestre National de Lorraine. His engagements have taken him to prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonie, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Shanghai National Art Center.

Théotime Langlois de Swarte studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Michael Hentz and became a regular member of Les Arts Florissants at the invitation of William Christie in 2014, while still a student. Since then, he has performed as a soloist with the ensemble and will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with them on North American tours in spring and autumn 2025. He has also given recitals with William Christie, notably recording sonatas by Leclair and Senaille (Générations, released by harmonia mundi in 2021).

As co-founder of the Baroque ensemble Le Consort, alongside harpsichordist Justin Taylor, de Swarte can be heard on numerous highly acclaimed recordings, including Specchio Veneziano, Opus 1 and Philarmonica, all released on Alpha Classics. Le Consort has performed throughout Europe, and its first North American tours in the 2023/24 season included Montreal, Boston, Washington, Kansas City, Berkeley, Chicago, St. Paul, Louisville, New Orleans, Vancouver and Ottawa.

In addition to William Christie, de Swarte frequently collaborates in recitals with harpsichordist Justin Taylor and lutenist Thomas Dunford, with whom he recorded the highly acclaimed album The Mad Lover. Another notable recording, A Concert at the Time of Proust, was made using the recently restored Davidoff Stradivarius at the Musée de la Philharmonie de Paris. His most recent recording, Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per una vita (harmonia mundi), has received widespread acclaim, while early 2025 saw the release of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the work’s publication.

Alongside his instrumental career, de Swarte is emerging as a conductor. In 2023, he conducted performances at the Opéra-Comique of Lully’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (with Les Musiciens du Louvre, at the invitation of Marc Minkowski) and Grétry’s Zémire et Azor (at the invitation of Louis Langrée). In November 2025, he conducted Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opéra-Comique. In 2026, at the Royal Opera of Versailles, he conducts a project devoted to the Chevalier de Saint-Georges and the revival of Salieri’s Tarare. In 2027, he will conduct Beethoven’s symphonies with the Royal Opera Orchestra of Versailles.

Théotime Langlois de Swarte is a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire. He plays a 1733 Carlo Bergonzi violin, generously loaned to him by an anonymous patron.

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