PIERRE DE BETHMANN SOLO

#PianoSolo

Alongside his many projects as a leader or sideman, and as opportunities arise, pianist Pierre de Bethmann regularly offers solo recitals.

As each concert is above all conducive to improvisation, he often alternates programs between standards from the great jazz repertoire, his own compositions, and totally free moments akin to compositional trials in real time.

Without effect or artifice, as acoustic as possible, he sets himself no other objective than to make an instrument sound as good as possible, an instrument which, by its very nature, represents an orchestral world of almost infinite possibilities.

Beyond his insatiable appetite for encounters and exploration of all types of keyboards and orchestral formulas, he offers to share the privileged bond he never loses with the piano, and which so often enables him to to dig deep inside himself.

Pierre de Bethmann was born in 1965 in Boulogne-Billancourt. He has co-led the Prysm trio (four albums for Blue Note), led the ilium and Medium Ensemble projects (seven albums for Aléa), currently leads this new quartet around original compositions, a trio around standards (five volumes in the form of "Essais" for Aléa), and co-leads the PianoForte project. 

He has won twice the Victoires du Jazz (2024 - French instrumental artist, 2008 - Oui, album of the year), the Grand Prix Jazz de l'Académie Charles Cros (2016 - for Exo, Medium Ensemble Volume 2), the Prix Django Reinhardt (2004 - French Musician of the Year), the Django d'Or (1998 - Prysm, ensemble of the year), and First Prize at the Concours de La Défense (1994). Since 2008, he has taught at the CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris), and has been a Steinway Artist since 2023.

Albums

Chaud-Froid
2022, Paradis Improvisé

Solo @ Barloyd's
2018, Jazz & People

Upcoming gigs

Videos

Paradis Improvisé

Previous gigs