:Augustin Viard
{{Short description|French musician}}
Augustin Viard (born 1984) is a French musician who plays the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument developed in the 1920s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mabeloctobre.net/sputniki/augustin-viard/|title=Augustin VIARD|date=23 August 2022 }}{{cite web|url=http://culturaunam.mx/impulso/programas/Juana%20programa_%20dig1.pdf|title=Juana de Arco en la hoguera|page=9|language=es|access-date=13 July 2019}}
His work includes performances with international symphonic orchestras, chamber music ensembles and solo concerts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/le-portrait-contemporain/roger-tessier-compositeur-34578|title=Le Bel itinéraire de Roger Tessier|website=France Musique|date=14 May 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lepopulaire.fr/celle-sous-gouzon-23230/actualites/la-spouze-a-recu-de-tres-bonnes-ondes_11558034/|title=La Spouze a reçu de très bonnes ondes|first=Centre|last=France|date=August 24, 2015|website=lepopulaire.fr}} His contributions as a player and composer are regularly aired on Radio France programmes,{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/loveless-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0003087012/credits|title=Loveless [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine | Credits|publisher=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/creation-air/creation-air-jeudi-26-mai-2016|title=Les mains d'Orlac ou quand la chair prend âme|website=France Culture|date=26 May 2016 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/creation-air/atelier-de-creation-radiophonique-dans-la-tete-dingmar-bergman|title=Atelier de Création Radiophonique : Dans la tête d'Ingmar Bergman|website=France Culture|date=30 December 2018 }} and his recordings include collaborations with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rob Simonsen, Evgueni Galperine{{Cite web|url=https://www.maisondelaradio.fr/evenement/cinema-sonore/vent-clair-dandrei-tarkovski/un-film-fantome-sonore-en-son-spatialise|title=Vent clair, d'Andrei Tarkovski - Dimanche 17 septembre 2017 - 18h00 Maison de la radio - Studio 105|website=maisondelaradio.fr}} and the soundtrack of several award-nominated movies such as Loveless, Earwig, Blonde or Black Flies.
Augustin Viard is listed as one of the rare contemporary ondists{{cite book |last1=Laurendeau |first1=Jean |title=Maurice Martenot, luthier de l'électronique |year=2017 |isbn=9782701022376 |pages=379 |edition=Editions Beauchesne}}{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/guivipurbu/maurice-martenot-luthier-de-l-electronique-qhpsqu|title=Télécharger Maurice Martenot, luthier de l'électronique - Jean Laurendeau pdf - guivipurbu|website=sites.google.com}} and owns a collection of authentic instruments made by Maurice Martenot.{{Cite web|url=https://www.augustinviard.com/audio-repertoire|title = Repertoire | Augustin Viard - Ondes Martenot}}
Biography
Augustin Viard was born in Provence in 1984.{{Cite web|url=http://www.owenwhitemanagement.com/artist/augustin-viard/|title=Augustin Viard (ondes Martenot)|date=September 3, 2018|website=OwenWhite Management}} He studied the ondes Martenot at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from which he graduated with a master's degree in 2013.
=Stage career=
He launched his career as a soloist and chamber musician with Ensemble Vecteur Ondes and Ensemble Volta.{{Cite web|url=http://federation-martenot.fr/Hommage-a-Messiaen-a-la-Maison-de|title=Hommage à Messiaen à la Maison de la Culture du Japon - Fédération des enseignements artistiques Martenot|website=federation-martenot.fr}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.musiquefrancaise.net/fiche.php?id=689|title=Tristan Murail, Les Nuages de Magellan - MFA|website=musiquefrancaise.net}}
He played the ondes Martenot part of Ecuatorial by Edgard Varèse in Paris with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2012, under Susanna Mälkki.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4ALq9-Y1g|title=Edgard Varèse - Ecuatorial - Ensemble intercontemporain|date=December 20, 2012|via=YouTube}} In 2015 he performed Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher by Arthur Honegger in Utrecht (Netherlands) with Het Promenade Orkest under Jos Vermunt.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/jeanne-darc-au-bucher-honegger-24-11-2015/|title=Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, Honegger|website=TivoliVredenburg}} He has also given performances of this piece in Osnabrück (Germany) in 2017 with the Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester under Andreas Hotz, in Mexico City in 2018 with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM under Sylvain Gasançon, and in Katowice (Poland) in 2019 with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Liebreich.{{Cite web|url=http://www.owenwhitemanagement.com/from-paris-to-poland-with-an-ondes-martenot/|title=From Paris to Poland with an Ondes Martenot|date=May 16, 2019|website=OwenWhite Management}} The same year, he performed the piece again with Marion Cotillard in the lead role, with the Orchestre National de Lille, conducted by Alexander Bloch, at the George Enescu Festival in Budapest (Romania).
=Film and audio recordings=
In 2014, he released his debut album Les nuages de Magellan in collaboration with Ensemble Volta.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/les-nuages-de-magellan-works-by-tristan-murail-mw0002645394|title=Les Nuages de Magellan: Works by Tristan Murail - L'Ensemble Volta | Songs, Reviews, Credits|publisher=AllMusic}} This included all the chamber music pieces for ondes Martenot composed by Tristan Murail. This recording won the Grand Prix du Président de la République de l'Académie Charles Cros 2014, an honour awarded by the French president François Hollande.[http://data.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/21/61/55/20141124/ob_45b5d0_palmares-18-nov-final.pdf Grand prix du disque]{{Cite web|url=https://www.irma.asso.fr/Le-palmares-des-grands-prix-de-l|title=Le palmarès des grands prix de l'académie Charles Cros / Actualités / Irma : centre d'information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles|website=IRMA : Centre d'information et de ressources pour les musiques actuelles|date=21 November 2014}}
Since 2016, French public radio station France Culture regularly commissions Viard to compose and perform original pieces for broadcast.{{Cite web|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/creation-air/atelier-de-creation-radiophonique-vent-clair-film-fantome-dandrei-tarkovski|title=Atelier de Création Radiophonique : Vent clair, film fantôme d'Andreï Tarkovski|website=France Culture|date=December 2016 }}
In 2017 he played Ondes Martenot on the award-winning soundtrack of the international film Loveless. This film received the Prix du Jury du Festival de Cannes 2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/films/nelyubov|title=NELYUBOV|website=Festival de Cannes 2019}} and the César du meilleur film étranger (best foreign film) 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.academie-cinema.org/ceremonie/palmares.html|title=Palmarès des César - Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma|website=academie-cinema.org|access-date=2019-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122054119/http://www.academie-cinema.org/ceremonie/palmares.html|archive-date=2019-01-22|url-status=dead}} The composers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine won the Best Composer European Film Awards 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/Fen_EN/F30th-european-film-awards-the-winners|title=30th European Film Awards: The Winners|publisher=European Film Awards|access-date=13 July 2019}}
In 2018, he composed the original music for the audio cinema film Le brasier Shelley with Warren Ellis,{{Cite web|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/evenement/cinesonore-le-brasier-shelley-un-film-sans-image-en-son-immersif-au-mk2-bibliotheque-a-paris|title=Cinésonore : "Le Brasier Shelley", un film sans image en son immersif au mk2 Bibliothèque à Paris / France Culture|website=France Culture|date=12 June 2019 }} starring Gaspard Ulliel, Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull.{{Cite web|url=https://www.maisondelaradio.fr/evenement/cinema-sonore/cinema-sonore|title=Le Brasier Shelley - Vendredi 15 juin 2018 - 20h30 Maison de la radio - Studio 105|website=maisondelaradio.fr}} This film was selected for the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma of Montréal competition 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://nouveaucinema.ca/fr/films/le-brasier-shelley|title=LE BRASIER SHELLEY|website=Festival du nouveau cinéma}}
In 2019, he performed all the Ondes Martenot parts on Nick Cave's album Ghosteen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.owenwhitemanagement.com/augustin-viard-performs-on-nick-caves-new-album/|title=Augustin Viard performs on Nick Cave's new album|date=2019-10-16|website=OwenWhite Management|access-date=2019-11-22}} The album achieved number 4 in the main UK charts{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-script-claim-their-fifth-uk-number-1-album-with-sunsets-and-full-moons-were-so-humbled-by-this__27747/|title=The Script "so humbled" to score their fifth UK Number 1 album|website=officialcharts.com|access-date=2019-11-22}} and reached top 10 positions in 15 European countries.
In 2020, Augustin Viard's ondes Martenot feature on Marianne Faithfull's The Lady of Shallot, in another collaboration with Nick Cave (Piano) and Warren Ellis (synthesiser and loops).{{Cite web|title=SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY (WITH WARREN ELLIS)-FAITHFULL,MARIANNE {{!}} notems|url=https://www.notems.com/nstore/product-.-4050538651140_m|access-date=2021-09-30|website=notems.com}} The 11 minute long track is part of Faithfull's album She Walks in Beauty, which reached the Billboard 200 when released a few months later, peaking at number 51.{{Cite magazine|title=Marianne Faithfull|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/marianne-faithfull/chart-history/tcl/|access-date=2021-09-30|magazine=Billboard}}
In 2021, Viard composed the original theme for Earwig,{{Citation|title=Earwig (2021) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10062338/fullcredits|access-date=2021-09-30}} a full-length movie directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, which won the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian international film festival.{{Cite web|title=San Sebastian Film Festival|url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com:443/2021/sections_and_films/7/690355/in|access-date=2021-09-30|website=sansebastianfestival}} Viard's score attracted rave international reviews, The Hollywood Reporter noting "a gorgeous minimalistic score",{{Cite web |last=Mintzer |first=Jordan |date=2021-09-11 |title='Earwig': Film Review {{!}} TIFF 2021 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/earwig-tiff-2021-1235011615/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} The Irish Times "Augustin Viard’s music (...) spreads brilliantly eerie glitch about the queasy action"{{Cite news |title=Earwig: A weird and wonderful film that approaches transendence |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/review/2022/06/10/earwig-a-weird-and-wonderful-film-that-approaches-transendence/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |newspaper=The Irish Times}} and the Daily Telegraph calling the film "blessed by a gorgeous, otherworldly score by Augustin Viard, a specialist in the ondes Martenot."{{Cite news |last=Robey |first=Tim |date=2022-06-09 |title=Earwig: beetles about elegantly but incoherently|work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/earwig-review-beautifully-designed-failure-fantasy/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |issn=0307-1235}}
In 2022, he appears as an ondes Martenot performer on the soundtrack of the highly successful Netflix film Blonde,{{Citation |title=Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Blonde (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film) |date=24 February 2023 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/26345696-Nick-Cave-Warren-Ellis-Blonde-Soundtrack-From-The-Netflix-Film |access-date=2023-05-11 |language=fr}} a fiction based around the life of Marilyn Monroe.{{Citation |title=Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Blonde (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film) |date=24 February 2023 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/26345696-Nick-Cave-Warren-Ellis-Blonde-Soundtrack-From-The-Netflix-Film |access-date=2023-05-12 |language=fr}}
In 2023, academy award winner Nicolas Becker asks Viard to perform ondes Martenot on the soundtrack of the American thriller Black Flies starring Sean Penn.{{Cite web |title=Nicolas Becker on Instagram on Black Flies Cannes Film Festival selection |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Crd4USkrJe6/?hl=fr}} The movie is officially selected for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Notable performances
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| colspan="2"|Year | Piece | Orchestra | Conductor | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2012 | « Ecuatorial » by Edgard Varèse | Ensemble Intercontemporain | Susanna Mälkki | France |
| 2 | 2015 | « Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher » by Arthur Honegger | Het Promenade Orkest | Jos Vermunt | Netherlands |
| 3 | 2017 | « Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher » by Arthur Honegger | Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester | Andreas Hotz | Germany |
| 4 | 2018 | « Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher » by Arthur Honegger | La Orquesta Fiarmónica de la UNAM | Sylvain Gasançon | Mexico |
| 5 | 2019 | « Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher » by Arthur Honegger | Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Alexander Liebreich | Poland |
| 6
|2019 |« Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher » by Arthur Honegger Title role : Marion Cotillard |Orchestre National de Lille |Alexandre Bloch |Romania | |||||
| 7
|2023 |"Turangalila Symphonie" by Olivier Messiaen |Utah Symphony Orchestra |Thierry Fischer |USA |
Main recordings
;2014
CD release, Ensemble Volta « Les nuages de Magellan », Tristan Murail chamber music pieces for ondes Martenot, Recommended Records
;2016
Broadcast, « Les mains d’Orlac » by Céline Ters and Ludovic Chavarot, France Culture, Radio France
;2017
Audio film, « Vent Clair » by Corentin Pichon and Céline Ters, France Culture, Radio France
CD release, « Loveless » Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Music by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, Varèse Sarabande
;2018
CD release, « Aïtone », French rock band album, Modulor{{Cite web|url=https://modulor-records.com/fr/boutique/rock-inde/aitone/|title=Aïtone – Modulor Records}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.minutenews.fr/divertissement/musique/aitone-premier-rendez-pop-melancolique-287995.html|title=Aïtone, premier rendez-vous avec une pop mélancolique|first=Max|last=Mejas|date=February 26, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://lesoreillescurieuses.com/2018/02/22/aitone-aitone/|title=Aïtone - Aïtone|first=Les Oreilles|last=Curieuses|date=February 22, 2018}}
Audio film, « Le brasier Shelley » by Céline Ters and Ludovic Chavarot, France Culture, Radio France{{Cite web|url=https://www.maisondelaradio.fr/evenement/cinema-sonore/le-brasier-shelley/avec-gaspard-ulliel-marianne-faithfull-et-warren-ellis|title=Le Brasier Shelley - Dimanche 16 septembre 2018 - 18h00 Maison de la radio - Studio 105|website=maisondelaradio.fr}}
Audio film, « Dans la tête d'Ingmar Bergman » by Florence Colombani and Céline Ters, France Culture, Radio France
Film, « Cuba, un aller et un retour » by Frédéric Compain, Arte TV{{Cite web|url=http://www.zadigproductions.fr/portfolio/cuba-un-aller-et-un-retour/|title=Cuba, un aller et un retour – Zadig Productions}}
2019
CD release, "Rêveries" by Rob Simonsen, Sony Masterworks.
CD and Vinyl release, "Ghosteen" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bad Seed Ltd.[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/augustin-viard-mn0003243089]
2020
CD and Vinyl release, "She Walks in Beauty" by Marianne Faithfull (with Warren Ellis), BMG.
2021
Movie soundtrack, Earwig, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Wild Bunch international
Audio film, "La Japonaise", by Céline Ters and Patrick Boudet, France Culture, Radio France.[https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-experience/la-japonaise-film-fantome-d-alain-robbe-grillet-8049727]
2022
CD and Vinyl release, Blonde, film soundtrack Lakeshore Records and Invada Records
2023
Movie soundtrack (performer), Black Flies, directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, music by Nicolas Becker & Quentin Sirjac, Open Road Films
Extra links
- [http://www.augustinviard.com Augustin Viard - Ondes Martenot]
- [http://www.owenwhitemanagement.com/artist/augustin-viard/ Augustin Viard (ondes Martenot)]
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