Pierrick Pedron

Pierrick Pédron (born April 23, 1969 in Saint-Brieuc ) is a French jazz saxophonist (alto sax).

Live and act

The Breton Pedron learned the saxophone at the age of six, studied at the CIM in rapid succession and made his debut as a jazz musician at the age of 16. In 1996 he won the Concours de La Défense with the group "Artaud-Blanchet" (Vincent Artaud, Boris Blanchet). Afterwards he played in the collective "Nuits Blanches" of the trumpeter Alexandre Tassel and in concerts with Alain Jean-Marie . An album with Eric Hammes led to a stay of several months in New York. In 2001 he was selected by the Paris saxophone factory Selmer as the reference musician for the alto saxophone. He played in a duo with the pianist Michel Graillier and regularly with the Belmondo brothers.

His debut album Cherokee was released in 2000 (with the pianist Baptiste Trotignon , the bassist Vincent Artaud and the drummer Franck Agulhon ), in which he made his preference for the music of Charlie Parker clear. In 2004 the sextet recording Classical Faces with Artaud, Agulhon, Pierre de Bethmann , Malik Mezzadri and Thomas Savy was released. In the same year he played the first alto saxophone in the band of Wynton Marsalis at the Marciac Festival . In 2006 the album Deep in a Dream , produced by Steve Backer , was released , recorded in New York in 2005 with pianist Mulgrew Miller , drummer Lewis Nash and French bassist Thomas Bramerie . It received the Prix Boris Vian . His album Kubic's Monk (ACT) won the 2013 Prix du Disque Français as the best French jazz album.

In 2007 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt and the Prix du disque de l'année (Album of the Year) from the French Académie du Jazz . In January 2013 he received the Prix du disque français again in the Grand Foyer du Théâtre du Châtelet , this time for 2012 and the album Kubic's Monk . Franck Agulhon (dr) and Thomas Bramerie (b) as well as producer Vincent Artaud were involved in the 2012 album.

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^ L'Académie du Jazz couronne Émile Parisien, Pierrick Pédron et Brad Mehldau , francetv.fr, January 16, 2013, accessed February 3, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Pedron, Pierrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pedron, Pierrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Brieuc

[1] L'Académie du Jazz couronne Émile Parisien, Pierrick Pédron et Brad Mehldau , francetv.fr, January 16, 2013, accessed February 3, 2013