Recorder player Patricia Lavail is renowned as both performer and pedagogue. Quite impressively she began her teaching career in her late teens. As head of the early music department of the Conservatory of Saint Cloud, near Paris, she formed quite a number of flutists of the current generation.
Daughter of Eliane Lavail, one of France’s first woman conductors, she was lulled in her cradle with renaissance polyphony. That, coupled with her own passion for French chanson throughout the ages, including the post Jacques Brel generation, have helped her create a uniquely vocal approach to her instrument.
At the Early Music Competition of Bruges, she was awarded a prize in the Instrumental Solo category, becoming the first French musician to be so recognized. A founding member of Fuoco E Cenere, Patricia Lavail has appeared in every season of the ensemble since its creation