Pierre CHARVET is a French composer born in 1968 in Montpellier.
After graduating with honors from the Manhattan School of Music with a Master's degree in composition in 1991, he joined the first class of the Ircam composition program. Since then, he has received numerous commissions, and his music has been performed in numerous concerts and broadcast on radio and television.
His monographic CD L'Invitation au voyage, published by Universal Classics, won La Lettre du musicien's Grand Prix des compositeurs.
His musical language uses both traditional instrumentarium and new sound technologies.
Il a enseigné la composition à la Manhattan School of Music de 1994 à 2001. Il est l’auteur et le présentateur de Presto !, émission musicale de France 2, qui pendant trois ans a réuni chaque semaine quatre millions de téléspectateurs. A la radio, il écrit et présente Le Mot du jour, tous les matins sur France Musique, émission parmi les plus téléchargées de la station, et pour la rentrée 2011, un nouveau programme quotidien, Du côté de chez Pierre. Il présente les concerts pédagogiques de la Cité de la musique et de la Salle Pleyel. Il est l’auteur de deux livres, Comment parler de musique aux enfants (Adam Biro Ed.), Entretiens avec Philippe CAUBERE (L’insolite Ed.).
Recent works include Regardez-le! for symphony orchestra and electronics, composed for Les Siècles and François-Xavier ROTH. Between its premiere at the Juventus Festival and its most recent performance in Paris by theOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Regardez-le! has been performed more than a dozen times around the world. In the last two years, he has also composed And Death, commissioned by the French government, for viola and electronics, premiered at Radio France; and Come away, commissioned by the Juventus Festival, for chromatic balafon and electronics. Pierre CHARVET also composed incidental music for Philippe CAUBERE's monumental work L'épilogue à l'homme qui danse. He is currently working on a piano concerto, as well as a piece for large orchestra, commissioned by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
