“….strong personality !!! ”
“…an impressive display of character…”
ARTIST BIO
Pierre Audiger is a pianist/composer and actor of the Jean-Laurent Cochet Acting School Paris.
Having graduated as a Piano Scholar from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Pierre has also been composing since the age of 17.
His music, described as being “music of fire and imagination”, has been critically acclaimed and been described as having a “strong personality” and “an impressive display of character”.
During his studies at RCS Pierre was under the tutelage of composer, David Fennessy. In 2015 Pierre won the Walter and Dinah Wolfe Memorial award for Composition for his Piece “Not A Clown” premiered by violinist Ilya Gringolts at the RCS. Multi Award winning Pianist Daniel Ciobanu also commissioned him an encore piece “Paraphrase on Mozart’s 23rd Piano Concert” for Piano and Violin, also premiered in 2015.
Pierre also composed Moremi Ajasoro, written and directed by April Koyejo. Recent events include the premiere of Pierre’s “Piano and Flute Sonata” with flautist Graham Dickson , his Piano Concerto performed as a Duet with pianist Sinae Lee at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His work “Dove Town”, commissioned by Bass Trombone and Piano Duet, The Nicholson Duo was performed in 2017.
Pierre was honoured to be part of the first edition of Neamt Piano Festival 2017 in Romania as composer in residence, his works have been premiered by many talented artists such as Petras Geniusas, Luiza Zan, Ksenia Fedoruk and Anna Dmytrenko. He looks forward to his works being performed at the Morellino Classica Festival in Italy, and the London premiere of the opera Ayanfe co-written with opera singer April Atinuke Koyejo-Audiger.
Pierre is also pursuing his acting career further and looks forward to joining the cast of Caroline Darnay’s play “Ouest End” in Paris, later this year. With the collaboration of writer Louis Pauly and stage director Raphaëlle Cambray, Pierre is also continuously working toward his first one-man-show, which will take place in 2019 in Paris