Pierre Laniau Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1955 -

Pierre Laniau (born in 1955) is a French artist who led a career as a classical musician (guitar) and a plastic artist before devoting himself completely to the second. He is interested in the mutation of man and its probable obliteration through writings, films and plastic works. He also still teaches guitar at the Conservatoire du Xe arrondissement in Paris.

Concertist, composer and teacher, Pierre Laniau is a graduate of the École normale de musique de Paris where he attended the courses of Alberto Ponce and Narciso Yepes, winner of the Ménuhin Foundation. Pierre Laniau takes up the cause of the baroque guitar (Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ludovico Roncalli, Gaspar Sanz, Francisque Corbett, Santiago de Murcia and Robert de Visée, which he interprets on guitars by René Voboam from 1652 and 1700). He is one of the rare amateurs of the 10-string guitar which allows him to interpret most of the repertoire without transcription (Mozart but also Georges Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, etc.).

Pierre Laniau's musical activity has developed in major French festivals (Montpellier, Lille, etc.) and on the Parisian stages (Salle Gaveau, Cirque d'Hiver, Carré Sylvia-Montfort, etc.). He has given concerts with the national orchestras of Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Versailles and with all of Sweden, Panama and that of Indonesia. Abroad, he has given numerous concerts (Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, United States, Brazil, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Malaysia, Burkina-Faso, Vietnam, etc.). He was one of the first French guitarists invited to the great halls of Beijing and Shanghai in China.