Gauthier-Guiche
Gauthier-Guiche
CREDO
I live in a synaesthetic world.
Even as a child, I recognised that sounds and letters carried colours and discovered that other sensory perceptions are also closely interwoven. This gave me an impulse: I wanted to understand the connection between the senses and their systems, this something that runs through all variations like an essence.
Although I was officially trained as a musician, I was always interested in other arts, especially painting.
As a horn player, I naturally approached new music. - What better time to follow the trail of the above-mentioned connection than now? -
I love working with composers. By exchanging ideas, you often go beyond the traditional boundaries of interpretation. The element of "stage" directs a concert directly towards theatre anyway, music can be perceived as language, poetry as music, and concepts such as form, colour, articulation, rhythm etc. can be translated from painting into music (and vice versa)...
It is therefore not uncommon for me to develop a performance in a roundabout way via painting, giving it an actor's grade.
Sometimes, however, music is also created from my paintings, either conceived by myself or by other composers. As an example, I would like to mention the project Robes de Ciment, a suite for solo instrument. The score is presented in the form of a card game with rules, in which the musician develops a personal sound world from his analysis of the printed paintings. However, this process is not a free improvisation. Something between painting and music remains untouched: the "essence" of their connection.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Born on 6 June 1975, in Evreux (France)
General education
| 1993 | Scientific Baccalauréat (Maths/Physics – equivalent to the German Abitur) with distinction. |
| 1996 | University of Paris II – Assas (France): Graduated and obtained a law degree. |
Musical Education
1984–1990 | École Nationale de Musique d’Évreux (France): Awarded the ‘Diplôme de Fin d’Études’ with piano and aural training as main subjects |
1995–1998 | Boulogne-Billancourt Regional Conservatoire (France): Graduated with a diploma, with horn as the main subject and chamber music as a secondary subject. |
1999–2001 | Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris – CNR (France): Graduation diploma, with natural horn as the main subject. |
2001–2004 | Freiburg University of Music: Diploma in ‘Artistic Training’ with a main subject in horn (class of Prof. Bruno SCHNEIDER) |
2008–2009 | Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: Postgraduate studies specialising in the natural horn (class of Thomas MÜLLER) |
Occasional work as a substitute musician in orchestras (Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, SWR Baden-Baden/Freiburg, etc.). Mainly active as a soloist and chamber musician, specialising in contemporary music.
Member of Ensemble Aventure (Freiburg) since 2008
Member of Ensemble Reflexion K (Eckernförde) since 2012
Collaborations with other ensembles: Contrechamps (Geneva), Collegium Novum Zürich, Oh Ton (Oldenburg), Linea (Strasbourg) and others. Numerous recitals featuring world premieres in Europe and Latin America.
Alongside these musical activities, research in the field of painting.
www.dgg-arts.com
Selection of works and concerts
Concerts
- Konzerthaus Berlin, 5 May 2012, premiere of Not I, holographies for French horn (A. Kampela) as part of the DAAD programme
- Buenos Aires, 25 Nov. 2012, solo recital as part of conDiT (Conciertos del Distrito Tecnológico de Buenos Aires) with premiere of Pull it (Patricia Martinez) for solo horn and video and FreqCor (Ezequiel Dobrovsky) sound course for solo horn
- Buenos Aires, 22 and 25 May 2013, lecture at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes + duo recital as part of conDiT with world premieres for horn and cello by Luciano Kulikov and Rosa Nolly on 22 and 25 May 2013
- Bucuresti Festival International Meridian, 1 Dec. 2014, solo recital with premiere of Seven Roses (Violeta Dinescu) in the self-written arrangement for solo horn, with image projection
- Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung Freiburg, 1 Feb. 2019, premiere of Glaze (Julian Quintero music / Laure Dupont dance and video) for solo horn with choreography and video
- Colloquium Oldenburg "Musik unserer Zeit", 8 Nov. 2019, premiere of Robes de Ciment in the version of the poetry reading
-Mind the Gap! 15 (premiere), 16, 20 and 22 Nov. 2019 in Osnabrück, Bremen, Freiburg and Cologne, 5 new pieces for horn/natural horn and viola/viola d'amore by 5 composers, Freiburg concert recorded and broadcast on DLF Kultur
- Equipo Para in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 30 May 2020, improvisation for voice and electronics, as part of the NUMACircuit 020 festival
Works
-Symphonie dans le bruit, performance for natural horn in E flat with choreography on a poem by Violaine Guillerm, Sept. 2009
-Seven roses, 6 paintings on paper and 1 oil painting on canvas, on a solo piece by Violeta Dinescu, arranged for horn, March 2014
-Fuziuni ad libitum, 6 illustrations of the improvisations in the piece of the same name for horn and electronics by Ulpiu Vlad, Sept. 2014
-Paysages Urbains 11 drawings on texts by Jean-Yves Potel, Paris 2013-2015. 5 later movements for horn and electronics by composer Jorge García del Valle Mendez (2016)
-Le Moment Implicite, book of poems in collaboration with the poet Violaine Guillerm, exploring the moment of the first beat of an orchestra conductor, Montpellier August 2016. Each copy contains the prints of 7 esquisses sur le Fond du Temps (7 drawings), Le Fond du Temps (oil on canvas) and an original collage
-Robes de Ciment 2016-2019 Suite for solo instrument, 18 images on a poem by Violaine Guillerm, score-object in the form of a pack of cards with rules of the game
-Suite Chaminou, 5 improvisations for voice and electronics, 5 illustrations on paper, video montage in collaboration with Joachim Spieth, Tenerife April 2020
-3 erupciones, 3 pictures on paper, as part of a collaboration with the composer Carlos Cárdenas. Parallel 3 short solo pieces for horn. Premiere on 26 June 2020 in Freiburg