Pascal Bertin began his singing career at the age of 11 years old with the Choeur d’ Enfants de Paris (Condt. Roger de Magnee), with whom he performed as a soloist around the world conducted among others by Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Georg Solti. In 1988 he received, as a student of William Christie, the first prize for interpretation of baroque music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
He developed an extensive career singing with various leading ensembles performing music of the middle-ages and the renaissance. Among these ensembles were the Huelgas Ensemble, Mala Punica, Clément Janequin, Unicorn Daedalus, A Sei Voci and Gilles Binchois. As an opera and oratorio interpreter, Pascal Bertin has performed with conductors such as Jordi Savall, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, Marc Minkowski, John Eliot Gardiner, Sigiswald Kuijken, Konrad Junghänel, Emmanuelle Haïm en Thomas Hengelbrock.
Pascal Bertin’s Opera roles include among others Clovis in Caldara’s La Conversion de Clovis, Mercure in Le Ballet Comique de la Royne by Beaujoyeulx conducted by G.Garrido, numerous roles from opera’s by Händel such as Orente (Riccardo), Eustazio (Rinaldo) , Trasimede (Admeto) conducted by C.Rousset, Amore in Monteverdi’s Il Ballo Delle Ingrate conducted by V.Carrot, Amore in Giacobbi’s L’aurora Ingannata conducted by R.Festa and Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at De Nederlandse Opera (DNO) conducted by M. Minkowski. Most recent opera appearances include Rage d’Amour at the DNO in Amsterdam as well as in the Salzburger Festspiele as Arbate in Mozart’s Mitridate, Patore in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Opera of Lille, Theatre du Chatelet on Paris and the Opera du Rhin, Ottone (Agrippina) at the Chicago Opera Theater as well as Händel’s Messiah with the Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo, conducted by Masaki Suzuki.
Future engagements include Händel’s Teseo at the Opera de Nice, Orfeo at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and Il Sant’Alessio de Landi with William Christie in Caen, Paris, Geneve, New-York.
Pascal Bertin jointly founded with Monique Zanetti, Yasunori Imamura and Guido Ballestracci the ensemble Fons Musicae, whom first recordings (airs de cour by Lambert and cantatas by Bononcini) were enthusiastically accepted by the international critics. Recent CD releases include cantatas by Steffani (2001) and cantatas by Caldara (2002).
Pascal has recorded over 50 CD’s from different periods and styles. He was also invited by Harmonia Mundi to take part in the recording project Les Trois Contre-ténors, together with Andreas Scholl and Dominique Visse.