Raymond Guiot

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Raymond Guiot (1967) with his quartet ( Daniel Humair , Guy Pedersen and George Gruntz , from left to right)

Raymond Guiot (born October 5, 1930 in Roubaix ) is a French musician ( flute , also piano ) and composer who has emerged in the field of classical music as well as in jazz and easy listening .

Live and act

Guiot received a classical music education on from the age of seven years, Conservatory of Lille . As a student of the flautist Marcel Moyse , he received the first prize of the Paris Conservatory in 1947 . First he was in the orchestra of the Opéra de Lille under Fernand Oubradous and Georges Prêtre . Between 1950 and 1956 he taught at the École nationale de musique in Calais.

In 1956 he took a position in the orchestra of the Garde républicaine in Paris and also worked as a studio musician. Between 1962 and 1991 he was solo flutist at the Paris Opera . Since the mid-1960s he has led his own groups in the field of jazz, with which he recorded several albums; he also performed in a duo with bassist Guy Pedersen. He can also be heard on albums by André Hodeir , Baden Powell , Maxime Saury or Elek Bacsik as well as in numerous film scores.

From 1977 he supported Alain Marion at the Paris Conservatory in the training of flautists.

Discographic notes

  • Bach Street (LP, MusiDisc, 1965; with Michel Hausser , Guy Pedersen, Daniel Humair)
  • Scarlatti Sounds (LP, Tele Music, 1968)
  • Jazz Baroque Quintet (LP, Tele Music, 1970)
  • Joue Domenico Scarlatti (LP, Decca, 1971, with Bernard Lubat , Georges Arvanitas , Guy Pedersen, Daniel Humair)
  • Néo-Classiques (LP, Tele Music, 1972)
  • Jazz Panorama (LP, Tele Music, 1973)
  • Instruments à vents, vol. 2 (LP, Tele Music, 1974)
  • Flûtes & Harpes (LP, Tele Music, 1974)
  • Indicatifs (LP, Tele Music, 1975)
  • Flûtes & Guitares (LP, Tele Music, 1975)
  • Basse contre Basse (LP, Tele Music, 1976)
  • Néo-Classiques, vol. 2 (LP, Tele Music, 1983)
  • Air Generation (LP, Tele Music, 1985)
in a duo with Guy Pedersen
  • Indian pop bass (LP, Tele Music, 1970)
  • Contrebasses (LP, Tele Music, 1970)
  • Musique en Vrac (LP, Tele Music, 1971)

Bernard Lubat

further recordings
  • Raymond Guiot & Maurice Plessac Flûte & Clavecin (1971)
  • Raymond Guiot & Rene Auteloup Instruments à vent, vol. 1 (1971)
  • Raymond Guiot & Pierre Bachelet Pianos romantiques (1973)
  • Raymond Guiot & Alain Marion Golden Flute Club (Denon, 1988)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This biography is based in part on an interview with Guiot in Traversières Magazine, issue 72 (September 2002).
personal data
SURNAME Guiot, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix