23 July 2025 • 11:00

18 €

San Telmo Museoa

Baptiste Trotignon

Baptiste Trotignon (piano)

Baptiste Trotignon started playing the piano at the age of six. He discovered Jazz and improvisation and learnt, on his own, throughout his adolescence.

In 1998, he formed his own trio, and at the age of 26, thanks to his two albums, Fluide (2000) and Sightseeing (2001), he was acclaimed as one of the most brilliant and complete pianists of his generation. Then followed two piano solo albums, Solo (2003) and Solo II (2005), that were very well received by critics and audiences alike. He has, since then, recorded a total of 14 records as leader, 9 as co-leader, and dozens more as invited artiste, sideman or composer. He has performed in the best theatres and at the best festivals all over the world, has been artistic director and composed orchestra symphony pieces (Different Spaces and L'air de rien) and has collaborated with artistes of the stature of Tom Harrell, Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Melody Gardot, Nicholas Angelich, Jeff Ballard, Kurt Weill, Kate Lindsey, Minino Garay, Yosvany Terry, Joe Lovano, Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Camélia Jordana, Romain Leleu, Arthur Teboul, Milton Nascimento, Vincent Peirani, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Archie Shepp…

Throughout his career, he has received many awards and honours: Django d'Or, Prix Django Reinhardt de l'Académie du Jazz, Victoires du Jazz for Best New French Artist in 2003, Grand Prize at the Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition, Composer of the Year at the 2014 Victoires de la Musique Classique, Grand Prix Sacem, Echo Jazz -in Germany- as Best Instrumentalist - Keyboards category.

Baptiste Trotignon is, in short, one of the best pianists of his generation, a captivating musician who brings his own personal and intimate language to piano solo, a language which is always in movement, sometimes slowly and veering towards meditation, at other times violently, but always throbbing with the most remarkable technical mastery. In his piano solo concerts, Trotignon usually combines compositions of his own with long, improvised sequences, but also usually includes reinterpretations of classical works, versions of the Beatles, stuff from Cole Porter and Billy Holiday, or even throws in offerings from “la chanson française”, or the odd popular Brazilian, Argentinean or Cuban song.