After conventional cello studies in Nice and Paris, Étienne Mangot turned his attention to performing on period instruments. He studied Baroque cello and viola da gamba, and refined what he had learned at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. As he is fascinated by all of the “da gamba” instruments - he is constantly engaged in research work on the subject - he works with luthiers and bow-makers to reconstruct rare models with special timbres, in particular a stringed baryton made by Pierre Jaquier. After the Académie de Monaco and the CRRs of Toulon and Nice, he is currently teaching at the Conservatoire de Limoges, he performs and records with Café Zimmermann (Céline Frisch & Pablo Valetti), Les Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre), Les Lunaisiens (Arnaud Marzorati) and La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller). He plays chamber music alongside Aline Zylberajch, Pierre Hantaï, Hugo Reyne, Flavio Losco, Alice Piérot and Freddy Eichelberger. In 2008, he founded the Filigrane ensemble with fellow musicians, each of whom plays a number of instruments, and who love the grain of sound and the weaving of voices.