Pierre Hanta? (born 28 February 1964, Paris) is a French conductor and harpsichordist. 　　The son of painter Simon Hanta?, he discovered the music of Johann Sebastian Bach when he was ten and first heard Gustav Leonhardt's recordings when he was eleven. He took up the harpsichord when he was 11 and was self-taught until meeting his first teacher, the American harpsichordist Arthur Haas. He later studied for two years in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt.[1] In 1983 he won the second prize in the Bruges harpsichord competition. 　　His first recordings focused on the English virginalists (Giles Farnaby and John Bull) and Bach. His most influential recordings are his two Goldberg Variations, released ten years apart (1993, 2003), and his ongoing series of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas. Following a first CD for Astrée in 1993, he has recorded 6 more volumes of Scarlatti recitals for Mirare between 2002 and 2019. Other discographic contributions include the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, three recordings dedicated to Bach’s toccatas and suites, as well as recordings of Frescobaldi and Couperin. 　　He performs internationally as a soloist across Europe, North America and Asia at festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Boston Early Music Festival, at Carnegie Hall, the Funda??o Calouste Gulbenkian, and Hakuju Hall in Tokyo. 　　In 1991, he and his brother Jér?me recorded part of the soundtrack to the French film Tous les matins du monde. 　　In 1985, he founded the ensemble, Le Concert Fran?ais, which he conducted from the harpsichord and which recorded both orchestral and chamber repertoire. 　　He frequently performs with his two brothers, Marc (traverso) and Jér?me (viola da gamba) as part of the Trio Hanta?. He played for many years with La Petite Bande (dir. Sigiswald Kuijken) and continues to perform with Jordi Savall, Amandine Beyer, Hugo Reyne, and Maude Gratton. He has collaborated with many other musicians, including Philippe Herreweghe and Marc Minkowski. 　　Teaching 　　Pierre Hanta? has never held a permanent teaching post in a conservatory. 　　During the 1990s, he taught privately. His students, including Bertrand Cuiller and Maude Gratton, continued their studies at the CNSM de Paris with Christophe Rousset and Olivier Baumont. In 2000, Hanta? replaced Rousset, then the harpsichord professor at the CNSM, during his sabbatical year. At the end of the year, Rousset quit and a job search was held as a formality, with the expectation that Hanta? would succeed Rousset and continue to work with his students at the CNSM. In what one student called an unexpected twist that shook the harpsichord class, though, he lost the post to Baumont, who has been the harpsichord professor at the CNSM since 2001.[2][3] 　　Since then, he has limited his teaching activities to master classes (Villa Medici, Fondation Royaumont, Académie de Villecroze, Accademia Europea Villa Bossi, etc.), with the notable exception of the harpsichordist Lillian Gordis, whom he mentored.