Pierre Hamon

about

Pierre Hamon (born 13 May 1956 in Morlaix) is a musician, composer and instrumentalist (recorders and numerous world flutes), whose repertoire ranges from medieval music to contemporary music. Pierre Hamon's career is not academic. At first he was self-taught, then he perfected his skills with Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam and played in the medieval music ensembles Guillaume de Machaut in Paris and Gilles Binchois1. After having participated since the 1980s, as a recorder player, in the development in France of early music and particularly medieval music (member of the Gilles Binchois ensemble, co-director of Alla Francesca, initiator of projects and recordings devoted to the work of Guillaume de Machaut, etc.), Pierre Hamon has been collaborating in a privileged and constant way with Jordi Savall since 19952. In order to deepen his interest in early music, he has taken a close interest in the traditional music of Europe, and then of other cultures. In 1998, he became a disciple of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia1, a great master of Hindustani music and the Bansuri flute, and his search for the fundamental gestures and sounds of humanity led him to the world of pre-Columbian flutes and civilisations and Amerindian traditions. In 1994, he was invited as a professor to create the first recorder class in France at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, and has since been a professor at the CNSMD in Lyon3. He is regularly invited for master classes by major early music in

albums

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Orient Occident II - Hommage à la Syrie (Tribute to Syria)

Pachamama (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Lucente Stella

Hypnos

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De Machaut: Sacred and Secular Music

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Machaut: Le jugement du roi de Navarre

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Close Encounters in Early Music

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Istanpitta

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Lachrimæ Caravaggio

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Ibn Battuta, The Traveller of Islam

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Christophorus Columbus - Lost Paradises

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Dictionary of Medieval & Renaissance Instruments