Gerard Billaudot

If n the short story by Théophile Gautier that inspired this work, a man falls in love with a ghostly spirit that gradually reveals itself to be a deceased young woman. She first appears to him throug...

The Cahier de métamorphoses was conceived as a school of listening: listening to the resonances of the instrument, but also listening to one s own capacity to act on the sound. Thanks to a wide range...

Borys Lyatoshynsky's Slavonic Concerto is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Ukrainian classical music. The uniqueness of this work is that it is based entirely on the folk melodies or mot...

These 6 novellas for piano are inspired by Taras Shevchenko's (1814-1861) collection of poems Kobzar. He is the most important writer-poet in Ukraine. His staries describe the history of Ukraine, its...

Classical suite stands apart in Ihor Shamo’s output, as it is his only opus referring to Classical and Baroque music. The Prelude, Courante and Gigue are inspired by the French music of the 17th and 1...

Cette œuvre pour piano seul, dédiée à Françoise Thinat et Matias Palou, est dans la continuité de Dos formas del tiempo, une pièce pour piano composée en 2000, dans laquelle le contraste entre le temp...

Pantomimes, for piano 4 hands and stereo electronics, is conceived as a dream, a stroll, an initiatory journey taking place between the moment the child has to go to sleep and the moment he wakes up....

« Si les artistes rendent si rarement compte de leurs instants d'inspiration, la raison en est bien simple: c'est qu'à ces moments-là du processus créateur ils ne sont nullement présents par la consci...

Pianiste, le compositeur a perdu l'usage de sa main gauche suite à un accident, sans savoir s'il en retrouverait l'usage. La musique résonnait dans sa tête, il a continué à écrire, pour piano. La morp...

These pieces have been designed to stimulate students' curiosity about the unusual modes of play they will encounter throughout their studies and careers. They deal with particular technical difficult...

Les violoncellistes trouveront dans ce cycle de douze pièces des compositions énergiques et d’autres méditatives, ainsi que deux chants grégoriens de Noël. L’univers est modal et exprime des émotions...

Turkmen Rhapsody for solo cello is the fruit of the composer's imagination located in Turkmenistan. It is a phantasmagoria of a world far removed from Western culture, a virtuoso work that takes its s...