Pygmalion has especially been associated with productions of Baroque opera and has appeared on leading French stages, including the Opéra royal de Versailles and a theater at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence. The group, accompanied by period instruments, has performed not only in France but around Europe and in China and Hong Kong. Pichon founded Pygmalion in 2006 and built it into one of the most successful choral ensembles oriented toward early music. As a countertenor, he performed under some of the leading early music conductors of the early 21st century, both French and foreign, including Jordi Savall, Jean Tubéry, and Ton Koopman. Pichon studied the violin and piano at the Versailles Academy, but, he told Télérama, "As a child, working on the, alone in my room, put me off I only rediscovered pleasure in making music by discovering the joy of building a sound together in a choir." Moving on to the Paris Conservatory, Pichon began to come closer to his ultimate place, studying voice and conducting. As a child, he sang in a famous youth choir, the Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs in Versailles. Pichon was born in Paris on October 17, 1984.
That group has developed into a major force in the performance of French Baroque opera. Raphaël Pichon has had dual careers as a countertenor, and later as the founder and director of the historically oriented choir Pygmalion.
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