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Renaud Pion,​ composer, unveils his multiple music with the gesture of a jazz instrumentalist using contemporary tools, as a “post-genre or indie-classical” musician.

 

He played in several collectives before continuing as a freelancer in London, New York, Dublin, Berlin.

He has extended his sound palette to several wind instruments and electronics, inspired by the confrontation with climatic music and popular music. He also took on Baroque and Renaissance instruments for creative purposes, and the Swedish basharpa.

 

Film music has greatly influenced him both in composition and as instrumentalist.

In 2019, he created the Ensemble 1529, intended for crossover projects.

 

The author of 8 personal albums (notably with Radio France), he has collaborated with numerous artists (from John Cale to Anohni or Elvis Costello, Bob Wilson,...), composed and performed for the theatre with actors Marie-France Pisier, André Marcon; or for L'Arbre aux Yeux Bleus (on the poetry of Nâzim Hikmet) and has orchestrated film music before composing scores himself.

 

He completed an opera at the beginning of 2023, 7 Fois la Lune (supported by Beaumarchais-SACD, original libretto by Rikki Ducornet), which is the subject of a multimedia creation for 2025. He wrote 4 Motets profanes for flute, in 2024.

 

He will perform in Europe in the fall of 2024 with Gavin Friday (new album, BMG).

 

RGP is published by Budde Music, and is a composer for the Audiotracks music library, represented by Cézame.

 

 

Personal disco: First Meeting (repetitive music duo), Paradise Alley (string orchestra and soloist), Qalandar (Turkish singing and chamber music), Voices in a Room (solo piano and pop guest artists), New York Sketches (NYC soundscape and guests), Atonalism (industrial rock duo with vocals), Spiritus (Ensemble 1529, orchestral collective, glass symphony), Hinterwelt (lo-fi narrative electro + video + binaural).

 

In collaboration: Dead Can Dance, Björk, Gavin Friday, John Cale, Elvis Costello, Christophe, Anohni (in concert), Titi Robin, David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay, LoJo, Omar Sosa, Hal Willner, Harold Budd, Warren Ellis, Erik Truffaz, CocoRosie & Bob Wilson, Bruno Coulais, …

 

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Film or documentary composer: Tadpole (Gary Winick, Miramax 2002), The Eye Has to Travel (Lisa Immordino, 2011), L'Elysée au pied du Mur, Mitterrand et le Monde, La guerre en face (3 x 90-min documentaries by Patrick Barbéris, Arte, Fr 2, 2009 to 2012), Untel inside (short film, Wilhelm Bérard), The Pier (2010, Gerard Hurley), Die Indianer kommen (Carola Wedel, ZDF 2016, shown at the Berlinale), La Porte des Filibondes (WIP Dec 2024, J Boulbès, Lardux Films)

 

Co-composer, orchestrator and conductor: N’oublie pas que tu vas mourir (Xavier Beauvois, 1995), Ma Vie en Rose (Alan Berliner 1996, recorded in Abbey Road Studios), La Mentale (Manuel Boursinhac, 2002), …

 

Instrumental soloist: In the Name of the Father 1995, The Boxer 1998, in America 2002 by Jim Sheridan (20th Century Fox), Disco Pigs (Kirsten Sheridan, 2001), Angel Baby (Michael Rymer 1995), L’enfant qui voulait être un ours, Le peuple migrateur (Bruno Coulais 2002), La Mentale (Manuel Boursinhac 2002), Peindre ou faire l’amour (Arnaud Larrieu, 2004), Le dernier trappeur (Nicolas Vanier, 2004), Oceans (Jacques Perrin, 2010) , Le dernier diamant (2013, Eric Barbier), La Vierge, les Coptes et moi (Namir Abdel Messeh, 2012)...

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