Music has always played an important part in Florent’s family: Singing polyphonic music and having a lute-making father — who built most of his instruments - probably explains why he chose to devote himself to the lute family. After completing basic training with Pascal Gallon in the Conservatoire de Caen, France, he joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon where he obtained his lute qualifications in Eugène Ferré’s class (2006). There, he also discovered the techniques of polyphonic improvisation with Jean-Yves Haymoz, becoming one of the first lutenists to improvise ricercari in public.
In 2022, he released his first solo album, devoted entirely to lutenist-composer Giovanni Antonio Terzi, on the German label Carpe Diem. This recording, the fruit of many years' work on this composer and the Italian music of the late 16th century, has made a strong impression in the music world. This is the first solo album devoted to this rich repertoire, mostly forgotten today.
Besides his work as a soloist, Florent also collaborates with a number of European ensembles that specialize in early music, including Ensemble Céladon (Paulin Bündgen), Collegium Vocale de Gand (Philippe Herreweghe), Traversées Baroques, Ensemble Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), le Banquet Céleste (Damien Guillon), l'Ensemble Amarillis (Héloïse Gaillard), les Folies Françoises (Patrick Cohen-Akenine), Armónica Stanza (Álvaro Garrido), Le Baroque Nomade (Jean-Christophe Frisch), Son Ar Mein, Alkymia (Mariana Delgadillo), Doulce Mémoire (Denis Raisin-Dadre), and Enthéos (Benoît Damant), among many others.
Always curious to share new experiences and explore other ways of making his instrument speak, he is also onstage in theater projects (role of Lysandre in the play Puck by Compagnie de Mars), contemporary dance (Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu, Théâtre National de Chaillot) or renaissance dance (Compagnie Maître Guillaume). Recently, he had the chance to play with the Lille Symphony Orchestra under Jan-Willem De Vriendt, and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Philip Von Steinaecker.
After teaching lute, theorbo and guitar at the conservatories of Beauvais, Toulon and Besançon, Florent now teaches courses and master-classes at the Manuel Castillo Conservatory in Seville, the Sorbonne University in Paris, the Ateliers des Traversées Baroques in Dijon, and the Académie de Musique Ancienne in Lisieux.
