Didier Squiban

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

Since the late 1970s, are among his idols Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Parker and Bill Evans and Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Arnold Schoenberg and Glenn Gould. He was accompanist for the Breton singer Yann- Fañch Kemener in the successful tour, " L' Héritage of Celite ® " 1993 ( The Heritage of the Celts ), on which more than 70 musicians traditional Breton and modern music combined with each other. So he took an intense and public appeal access to the music of his native Brittany. In 1997 he took on the island of his ancestors, Molène, his first solo piano album on Breton, just " Molène ".

Discography

Solo piano

  • Molène season II (2013 )
  • Tournée of chapelles 2004 (2005)
  • Ballades (2003)
  • Trilogy pour piano (2001) Rozbras (2001)
  • Porz Gwenn (1999)
  • Molène (1997)

With band

  • L' estrane (2009)
  • La plage (2006)
  • Bangor - Sirius Formation (L' orchester de jazz de Bretagne ) ( 1995)
  • Jazz à Vauban (1994 )
  • Tendances (1990 )

With orchestra

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

Cooperations

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