Pierre Bibault - Steve Reich (2021) Hi-Res

Pierre Bibault is a multifaceted French classical and electric guitarist. He has performed in more than 25 countries, and in many prestigious venues: Radio France, Philharmonie de Paris, Flagey in Brussels, Wigmore Hall in London.

As a soloist, he explores contemporary music: written, improvised, with electronics, or sounds transformed in real time, and handles his guitars as well as samplers, loopers and computers. He works closely with today's composers, many of whom have dedicated their guitar works to him. Among them: Zad Moultaka, Thierry Pécou, Jeffrey Holmes.

He has just completed the recording of the integral for electric guitar by the American minimalist composer Steve Reich (1936-), who will celebrate his 85th birthday on October 3, 2021. The program of the disc has been validated by the composer himself, and the disc is to be released on October 1st on the French label Indésens Calliope.

Since 2018, he has been an additional musician (classical and electric guitars) for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, under the direction of Matthias Pintscher. With the Ensemble he was able to collaborate with many essential composers and composers of the international contemporary scene (Olga Neuwirth, Rebecca Saunders, James Dillon) and explore a wide repertoire, ranging from psychedelic rock written by Frank Zappa to music for the film Die Start Ohne Juden by Olga Neuwirth published and broadcast on Arte. In 2019, the Ensemble invited him as a soloist for the French premiere of the concerto for guitar by H.W. Henze Ode an Eine Äolsharfe, at the Philharmonie de Paris.

He is a permanent member of the Ensemble Variances by Thierry Pécou, which he joined in 2017 (Rouen Opera, Radio France Presences Festival, Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Cortot in Paris, etc.). During the various Covid lockdowns, the Ensemble transformed its concerts season, and in particular its 2020-2021 residency at the Salle Cortot, into concert-recordings, all available on YouTube. A recording of performed works (François-Bernard Mâche, Thierry Pécou, Jeffrey Holmes) was also released on the label Ohuaya in spring 2021.

Since 2020, he is an additional musician (classical and electric guitars) for the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, and has performed under the direction of great conductors: Kent Nagano, Maxime Pascal.

He is a Doctor of Arts, and the author of a thesis Gesture and a Gesture Extraction Process in Zad Moultaka's Music for Solo Guitar.s: A Performer's Perspective, VUB / KCB, 2021, 415 p.

He is the Artistic Director of the International Guitar Festival in Béarn since its creation in 2017, and has been a Project Advisor and Supervisor for the Paris Guitar Foundation from 2014 to 2018.

Pierre Bibault is a Professor at the Paris Conservatories (Holder, Cat. A), in the 12th and 16th arrondissements, as well as a Teacher-Researcher at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel. He frequently gives Masterclasses and Conferences in France and abroad.