Anne Gallet is a Swiss harpsichordist

Harpsichordist

A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord.Many baroque composers played the harpsichord, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau...

 and musicologist.

Gallet was born in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

. At the age of 20 she won the first prize for virtuosity at the Conservatoire de Genève in the class of Isabelle Nef. Subsequently she studied at the Wiener Musikakademie (Vienna), and further, under Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt

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. A Laureate

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 of the International Competition "Musica Antiqua" (Bruges

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) in 1965, she went on to play at European and American festivals, solo

Solo (music)

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, and accompanying Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall

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, Hopkinson Smith

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, Sigiswald Kuijken

Sigiswald Kuijken

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, and Philippe Huttenlocher

Philippe Huttenlocher

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. She obtained a Master's degree in musicology

Musicology

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 at Washington University in St. Louis

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, where she also taught harpsichord for two years.

In reviewing the 2000 recording The Baroque Harpsichord to which Gallet contributed, Gramophone magazine praised "the delicacy of her touch".

As of 2000, she is a teacher at the Conservatoire de Genève and the Centre de Musique Ancienne Geneve.