25 July 2025 • 11:00

18 €

San Telmo Museoa

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Pierre de Bethmann

Pierre de Bethmann (piano)

Born in 1965, and raised in Paris, where he did his first regular and musical studies apace, Pierre de BethmannPierre de Bethmann graduated from the ESCP (French graduate school of management) in 1987, and later studied one year at Berkley College of Music, (Boston) in 1989. Following that, he worked as management consultant for five years, till 1995, when he decided to become a fulltime musician.

He co-founded trio PRYSM and at the end of the 1990s he recorded four albums for Blue Note and toured Europe, Japan, The United States and Canada. He subsequently raised the ILIUM project and recorded four albums in quintet and sextet combos. He carried on his work as a composer with the MEDIUM ENSEMBLE, an orchestra comprising 10 and 12 musicians, with whom he made 3 records.

At the same time, he formed an acoustic trio with Sylvain Romano and Tony Rabeson and created a quartet with David El Manek. He co-leads the Pianoforte project which will also perform at the 60th edition of Jazzaldia. In addition to all of this, he created his own record label in 2015 and also teaches at the CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris). Throughout all these years of his career, he has collaborated with many musicians, among them Eddie Henderson, Dave Liebman, Aldo Romano, Philip Catherine, Rick Margitza, Riccardo del Fra, François Jeanneau, Eric Le Lann, Stéphane Belmondo, Stéfano di Battista, Flavio Boltro, Rosario Giuliani, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Julien Lourau, Meredith d'Ambrosio, Norma Winstone, Sara Lazarus.

Pierre de Bethmann has won many awards, among them the Prix Django d'Or, in1998, for the French group of the year, the Prix Django Reinhardt, in 2004, for the French musician of the year, the Victoires du Jazz prize, in 2008, for the French instrumental album of the year, (for Oui (2007)), and another Victoires du Jazz prize in 2024, for the French instrumental artist of the year.

An intense and creative pianist; sinuous, frisky and at times bright; sombre, gloomy and at times meditative. A great opportunity to see one of the best French pianists of today, as he genuinely is, taking us on his piano solo saunter with him, without sound amplification, in the magnificent cloister of The San Telmo Museum.