Jean-Pierre Drouet

Jean-Pierre Drouet (* 1935 in Paris ) is a French percussionist and composer .

Drouet had to give up playing the piano due to an accident. He then studied with René Leibowitz , Jean Barraqué and André Hodeir . In India he learned non-European percussion instruments such as the tabla .

Following his training, he went on a concert tour with Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian in the United States. He is a specialist in new music and has been involved in world premieres of numerous contemporary works by Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen , Iannis Xenakis and Mauricio Kagel since the 1960s . Together with Vinko Globokar , Carlos Roqué Alsina and Michel Portal , he belonged to the improvisation group New Phonic Art from 1969 to 1982 , which contributed significantly to the development of new improvisational music. He has also performed with musicians such as Daniel Humair and Max Roach , and later with Françoise Kubler , Fred Frith , Louis Sclavis and Michael Riessler . But he also played as an accompanist to the vocal group Les Double Six or the pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque .

As a composer he has worked for the theater ( Jean-Marie Serreau , Claude Régy ), dance ( Brigitte Lefèvre , Théâtre du Silence, Jean-Claude Gallotta ) and the concert hall (Atelier théâtre et musique-ATEM, Musica 38e rugissants, Orchester de Paris and Les Percussions de Strasbourg ). Thanks to the collaboration with Mauricio Kagel, Georges Aperghis , Michael Lonsdale and Édith Scob , he discovered the “New Music Theater” for himself. He developed a scenic practice when he conquered Claudine Brahem's music machines ; he also composed for Bartabas' "Horse People" .

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SURNAME	Drouet, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French percussionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris