Pierre Berthet

(Photo : F. Le Junter)

Educations :

1983-1986: Brussels Royal Conservatory: percussion with Georges-Elie Octors

1985-1990: Liège Royal Conservatory: improvisation with Garrett List; composition with Frederic Rzewski; music theory with Henri Pousseur.


Exhibitions/concerts (selected), most of them in collaboration with Rie Nakajima (Dead Plants and Living Objects)

2024:

DPLO Japan tour december 23- january 24

All ears festival, Oslo

De Perifeer, Deventer



2023:


Donaueschinger Musiktage

 Archipel festival, Genève.

 Le Cyclop (Jean Tinguely), Milly-la-Forêt – France 

2022:

Villa Stuck, Munich, concert and Workshop (DPLO)

2021:

Seanaps Festival, Leipzig, DPLO outdoor installation

2020: Beaux Arts de Marseille (Galileo);

 Maison Salvan, Labège, Toulouse (exhibition with Rie Nakajima from the distance) 

 GMEA, Albi

2019: Museo Vostell-Malpartida (duo exhibition with Rie Nakajima)

2018: Borderline Festival, Athens (solo)

2018: IKON Gallery, Birmingham (duo with Rie Nakajima)

2017: Tectonics Festival, Tel Aviv (solo)

2017: Meakusuma Festival (duo with Rie Nakajima)

2017: Serralves Festa, Jirdim das Virtudes + Serralves Museum, Porto (duo with Rie Nakajima)

2016: Wysing Polyphonics, Cambridge, UK (solo)

2016: Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (duo with Rie Nakajima)

2015: Tsonami Festival, Valparaiso (solo)

2014: Festival des Fabriques, parc J.J. Rousseau, Ermenonville (solo)

2013: Tuned City, Brussels (solo)

2012: Lydgalleriet, Bergen (solo)

2011: Resonance European Sound Art Network (exhibitions: Riga, Maastricht, Kortrijk) (solo)

2010: Singhur Gallery, Berlin (solo)

Permanent from 2005: “​Houses of sounds’’​ in “Klankenbos” outdoor collection of sound installations, Neerpelt, Belgium

2006: Festival Octopus, Pompidou Art Centre, Paris (duo with Pierre Bastien)


Biography:

Pierre Berthet: born in 1958, lives in Belgium. Studied percussion with G.E. Octors and André Van Belle at Brussels Conservatory, composition with Frederic Rzewski, improvisation with Garrett List and music theory with Henri Pousseur at Liège Conservatory. Composes and builds sculptural sound objects and installations (steel, plastic, water, motors, vacuum cleaners…). Presents them since 30 years in exhibitions and solo or duo performances, in music venues, festivals, galleries, outdoor contexts, etc. He worked with Frederic Le Junter, played percussion with Arnold Dreyblatt and has a duet project with Rie Nakajima. For 10 years he played quite often the piece “Galileo” by Tom Johnson in many european countries.

e.mail:p.58berthet@gmail.com  

Band camp: https://pierreberthet.bandcamp.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/pierreberthet/videos

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pierre.berthet.35


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