- Mathias Durand is a composer, improviser, singer and multi-instrumentalist.
He grew up in Chantilly, and first received music from his grand mother, pianist.
As a teenager, he learned the guitar and other instruments as an autodidact. He played in many bands, mostly psychedelic rock, with a lot of improvisation and texture work.
He also writes songs and composes music for the image and the theater
He joined the acousmatic composition class of Régis Renouard-Larivière at the Paris VII Conservatory in 2006 and studied with him for five years.
In 2009 he met Pandit Santanu Bandyopadhyay in Calcutta who initiates him to Hindustani classical music.
And in 2016 he met his masters of Dhrupad, the Gundecha brothers. At Ramakantji's invitation, he stayed with them for four years to study the intricacies of their tradition.
In 2019 he joined James Thierrée's Compagnie du Hanneton as a pianist, guitarist, double bass player and musical director. They were on an international tour from 2022 to 2024.
With Julien Signolet he produces the immersive installation III at Collège des Bernardins, Paris in May and June 2023.
Among the places where he performed can be noted Eglise St Eustache (Paris), Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Philharmonie de Paris, Musée du Louvre (Paris), Théâtre des Célestins (Lyon), Théâtre de Carouge (Genève), Rosalind Packer Theater (Sydney), Teatro Argentino (Rome), King's Theater (Edimburg), Birla Auditorium (Jaipur), India Habitat Center (Delhi)...- IMDb Mini Biography By: thomas artworth
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