Arnaud Raffarin

He was born on 22 December 1976 in Châtellerault, where he learned classical guitar at the conservatoire. He studied musicology at the University of Tours (1996-1998), then singing at the Tours conservatoire in the class of Jean Nirouët (1999-2001). In 2001 he joined the Maîtrise of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, directed by Olivier Schneebeli, and in 2003 won the First Prize in singing with the jury’s congratulations at the Versailles conservatoire. He went on to study at the Abbey of Royaumont with Gérard Lesne (2003-2004) and in masterclasses with Alain Buet, Howard Crook, Noelle Barker and Jérôme Correas.

Noticed by Jean-Claude Malgoire, he sang Arbas in Campra’s Idoménée with La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Nerillo in Cavalli’s L’Ormindo with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas, an oratorio by Hasse alongside Gérard Lesne, and Handel’s Chandos Anthems with Les Passions and Joël Suhubiette.

From 2009 to 2018 he was a member of Accentus under Laurence Equilbey: soloist in Purcell, Poulenc, Howells and Barber, Pelléas et Mélisande under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Fauré’s Requiem on tour in Latin America, Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra de Rouen, The Creation staged by La Fura dels Baus. With Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet he sang Purcell’s King Arthur, The Fairy Queen and The Indian Queen; with Marc Minkowski, Gluck’s Alceste; with Christophe Rousset, Les Indes galantes; with Ensemble Matheus, The Messiah. He recorded Giacobetti’s Lamentations with the ensemble Scandicus.

He teaches singing at the music schools of Auterive and then Tournefeuille, coaches actors and singers, and has created a method for singing with power without tiring the voice. Based in Toulouse, he runs Raf Voice Society, a training organisation certified Qualiopi in 2026, and co-founded a music label the same year.

Sources: Operabase, 2026 CV, training record of 21/09/2026, Vimeo 2014, consulted on 25/09/2026. Operabase (nouvel onglet) · Vimeo, Labyrinthe Musical en Rouergue (nouvel onglet) · Raf Voice Society, « Qui suis-je » (archive) (nouvel onglet)