OR IS HE JAZZ - Pierre
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OR IS HE JAZZ - Pierre
IS HE CLASSICAL OR IS HE JAZZ ? Is he classical or is he jazz? Pierre-Yves Plat cannot be classified. Thanks to his musical sensitivity and his amazing virtuosity, he magnificently transforms classical tunes through his ragtime renditions of Chopin and reinterpretations of Bach with salsa rhythms… His sublime talent rouses the public, astounding them with his improvisations and the fantasy of his performance. Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and many others interact with our era under the fingers of this young virtuoso, full of audacity and humour. A pianist to discover and to follow ! Photos www.guillaumegarcia.com Piano & Arrangements www.pierreyvesplat.com A GENUINE TALENT TO DISCOVER! PRESS « …within a few seconds, the room becomes his own as he manages the trick of alternating from Chopin‟s music to boogie with brio and a touch of humour.. He reminds us of the Marx Brothers, and his burlesque interpretation of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Brahms, mixed up with Latin jazz, gets enthusiastic applauses from the public. During the second part, Claude Bolling, plays solo, as well …” Michel Bedin, Jazz hot - 2008 “He performed in front of a full house, an audience astounded by the performance of this unequivocal artist […] He is unique to the piano‟s universe. Pierre-Yves Plat wowed his audience by modifying some tunes that belonged to the classical repertoire and adding jazz rhythms to them. Chopin, Bach and Beethoven are reliving a new youth, thanks to the audacity and talent from the fingers of this virtuoso.” Crédit photo : Alain Langlois Le Télégramme – 2009 TOURS / REFERENCES / CONCERT (2009 / 2011) PIANO SOLO Palais de la Bourse - Marseille Théâtre de la Mare au Diable - Palaiseau Salle Cortot - Paris Théâtre de la Celle Saint-Cloud Théâtre Montansier - Versailles Théâtre Graslin – Nantes Académie des Beaux Arts – Tirana (Albanie) Théâtre Nouvelle France - Le Chesnay Stade de France (salon Elyseum-soirée privée) Casino de Deauville (soirée privée) L'Archipel – Paris (Nombreux concerts dont une prestation organisée au profit des enfants de Roumanie (Soirée caritative)) Espace Macc – Lille / Villeneuve d'Ascq (Soirée Rotary) L'espace du Roudour – Morlaix / Saint Martin des Champs (Soirée Rotary) Show case en Fnac Parisienne (dans le cadre de la promotion de l'album « Pourquoi Pas ») Plage du Kelenn - Carantec (Concert en plein air – 500 spectateurs) Stade Michaux - Le Chesnay (Concert en plein air – 400 spectateurs) Petit Journal Saint-Michel – Paris Les grandes étapes Françaises “Divine on the stage of Tournemine […] The show fingers moving with fantastic velocity over the keyboard as he recites a Théâtre Graslin – Nantes disco version of Handel. His entire interpretation is a whole universe creativity, an awesome Théâtre Nouvelle France - LeofChesnay improvisation of well-known tunes such as the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor of Johann Sebastian Bach, or more surprisingly, La Java des Bombes Atomiques, inspired by the work of Boris Vian, based on Tea for two. Extraordinarily eclectic! Thrilled, the spectators lengthily applauded the finale, and what a finale: Beethoven and his “Moonlight” Sonata. We can‟t wait for more.” Ouest France - 2008 Théâtre de la Celle Saint-Cloud is simply startling, the artist‟s ON TV / CINEMA UN BONHEUR N’ARRIVE JAMAIS SEUL - CINÉMA Music Composer and arranger for this movie (Un film de James Huth avec Gad Elmaleh et Sophie Marceau « LE PARIS DE CELINE » – HISTOIRE Music Composer. A documentary presented by Lorànt Deutsch – Décembre 2011 LE « 19 h45 » - TV NEWS on M6 Chopin Today 100 % MAG – M6 A new way to play the piano A CLASSICAL CAREER? “Classical and fanciful /…/ His show surprises in many ways”. (Ouest France – Juin 2008) BIOGRAPHY B orn in 1980, Pierre-Yves Plat started to play Classical piano when he was five-years-old with Marie-Claude Legrand. His personality and his inborn sense of rhythm led him to play boogie, ragtime and stride, and later on to create his own compositions thanks to the influence of several artists, including Edourad Ferlet (he received the Berklee jazz performance award in 1992) and Fabrice Eulry (also known as “le Chopin du Boogie-woogie”). In 1996, on Fabrice Eurly‟s instigation, he recorded his first ragtime disc and began performing on stage. Since then he has played in several halls, both in Paris and all over France, and regularly plays at blues, ragtime and boogie-woogie festivals. While in Paris he performed on different stages and in different jazz clubs, such as, “Le Petit Journal Saint-Michel”, “Le Petit Journal Montparnasse”, “Lattitude Jazz club”, etc. He also delighted clients with his piano at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris. The great success of his creative plays of Bach and Chopin during his concerts (in particular during an enthusiastic solo concert at the “Archipel” (Paris, June 2005)), encouraged Pierre-Yves Plat to persevere with his compositions based on the work of Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, etc. His compositions, assembled in his album „Pourquoi pas‟, are based on his astonishing virtuosity, and provide a response to his inner-self that combines his love for classical structures and the pleasure of hearing original rhythmic breakaway. CARREER 2007-2008 Compositions and music rearrangement for short films by Méliès (Fechner Production) 2002-2002 Group training in Sweden with Sighstinska Kapellet. 1999-2005 Pianist at the Four Seasons Hotel George V (Paris). 1996-2002 Jazz training with Fabrice Eurly (Boogie‟s Chopin) (Boogie, Rock‟n roll, Ryhtm‟n blues, Ragtime, Stride). 1992-1996 Jazz training with Edourd Ferlet (Berklee Jazz Performance Award – 1992) 1985-2007 Classical training with Marie-Claude Legrand (Professor at the Music Academy of Boulogne) DISCOGRAPHY PERMETTEZ-MOI - 2011 Beaucoup de surprises avec un disque aux couleurs très variées : au programme notamment l‟étude «révolutionnaire» de Chopin en Boogie-Woogie, le fameux prélude de Rachmaninov en do dièse mineur revisité en jazz, ou encore une nouvelle version de la marche turque … sans oublier des thèmes allant de « Y‟a de la joie » ou encore « la vie en rose » qui ne manqueront pas de vous surprendre ! MÉLIES à l’honneur chez STUDIO CANAL - 2008 2008 is the 70th anniversary of the death of Georges Méliès (1867 – 1938), pioneer of French cinema. On this occasion, and for the first time brought together, Studio Canal offers us 30 masterpieces from the visionary film director, with remastered versions for the films made between 1896 and 1912. One of the audio tracks is ascribed to André Dussolier who plays the smooth-talker according to the texts of Georges Méliès. Pierre-Yves Plat took this opportunity to have a musical collaboration with Lawrence Léherissey (great great-grandson of Méliès) on certain short films. RÉCRÉATIONS (CD) - 2008 Is he classical or is he jazz? Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and many others interact with our era under the fingers of this young virtuoso, full of audacity and humour. POURQUOI PAS (CD) – 2005 In this CD, he mixes up arrangements of classical tunes (in particular Chopin‟s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Opus posthumous 66) and also plays some jazz music from Joplin and Basie, as well as some boogie, blues and of course some stride. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Pierre-Yves Plat - «Classic or Jazz?» To make available Lumières 1 Grand piano (Possible partnership with HANLET PIANO if required) 8 PAR 64 ou Fresnel 1 KW 12 MAC PROFILE 2000 M1 2 VL 2500 SPOT_v2 1 machine à fumée (Voir plan de feu ci-dessous) PA system Vidéo (To prepare according to the room : acoustic concert possible for rooms of up to 250 places) Projection screen Minimum size : 2.40m x 1.80m Videoprojector / Overhead projector 4000 lumens (minimum) Sennheiser MKE 40 - micro HF (Ou équivalent morceaux) - Pour la présentation des Camera provided by the artist Cables to anticipate – RCA VIDEO (Between the piano and the video projector) 1 Façade adapté à la salle APG, NEXO, C Heil 1 console minimum 3 voies 1 réverbération 2 micros statiques / Piano (si sonorisation nécessaire) CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION Pierre-Yves Plat : +33 (0)6 89 68 39 64 PLAN DE FEU / PLAN DE SCENE CONTACT Pierre-Yves Plat +33 (0)6 89 68 39 64 [email protected] www.pierrreyvesplat.com