Didier Squiban

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Didier Squiban

Didier Squiban (born September 23, 1959 in Ploudalmézeau ) is a French pianist and composer from Brittany . Coming from classical music and jazz , he is now an important musician in the modern Breton music scene, whose instruments he has enriched with the piano. His work is a combination of traditional Breton music, jazz improvisation and classical romanticism.

Since the late 1970s, his role models have included Duke Ellington , Keith Jarrett , Charlie Parker and Bill Evans, as well as Claude Debussy , Igor Stravinsky , Erik Satie , Darius Milhaud , Arnold Schönberg and Glenn Gould . In 1993 he became the accompanying pianist for the Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener on the successful tour " L'Héritage des Celtes " (The Heritage of the Celts), on which more than 70 musicians combined traditional Breton and modern music. So he found an intensive and audience-effective access to the music of his native Brittany. In 1997 he recorded his first Breton solo piano album, “Molène”, on the island of his ancestors, Molène.

Discography

Solo piano

  • Molène season II (2013)
  • Tournée des chapelles 2004 (2005)
  • Ballades (2003)
  • Trilogie pour piano (2001)
    • Rozbras (2001)
    • Porz Gwenn (1999) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
    • Molène (1997)
  • Concert Lorient (recorded at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient) (2000)

With tape

  • L'Estran (2009)
  • la plage (2006)
  • Bangor - Formation Sirius (L'orchestre de Jazz de Bretagne) (1995)
  • Jazz à Vauban (1994)
  • Tendances (1990)

With orchestra

  • Symphony Iroise (2004)
  • Symphony of Brittany (2000)

Cooperations

  • Manu Lann Huel chante Léo Ferré - Lann Huel / Squiban / Trévarin (2003)
  • Kimiad - Kemener / Squiban (2000)
  • Île-Exile - Kemener / Squiban (1996)
  • Penn-Ar-Bed / Brest 96 - Didier Squiban & An Tour Tan (1996)
  • Karnag "Pierre Lumière" (1996)
  • Enez Eusa - Kemener / Squiban (1995)
  • Héritage des Celtes en concert - Dan Ar Braz (1995)
  • Live - Didier Squiban & An Tour Tan (1997)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 16, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Squiban, Didier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Breton pianist, jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploudalmézeau