Sandrine Piau is a French opera soprano. Piau was born in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Originally trained as a harpist, she studied voice at the Coll�ge Lamartine and the Conservatoire National Sup�rieur de Musique du Paris. She is best known for her roles in Baroque opera, having worked with William Christie at the Festival international d'Art Lyrique at Aix-en-Provence. She has since collaborated with many of the leading European conductors of the Baroque revival, including Marc Minkowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, Ren� Jacobs, and Fabio Biondi. She took part in the project of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. She was named a Chevalier de l?Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 by the French government. 

June 5th, 1965 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Age 59)