Biography

Multi-instrumentalist from an early age, Gilles Durot developped his talent for percussion with Michel Cerutti at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), and quickly went on to play with the major Parisian orchestras: the National Orchestra of France, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Paris National Opera Orchestra, directed by Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Myung-Whun Chung, Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, David Robertson or Matthias Pintscher among others.

In late 2007, he won the competition to become a soloist of the Ensemble intercontemporain.

He has also been a soloist with the Ensemble Multilatérale and the Paris Percussion Group since their creations in 2005 and 2012 and is part of the Trio K/D/M which he founded in 2008 along with percussionist Bachar Khalifé and accordionist Anthony Millet. The trio creates a new repertoire and disseminates it widely on international stages (Archipel, ManiFeste, Musica and Présences festivals, Centre Pompidou, Villa Médicis, Berliner Philharmonie, Doha Opera House, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires…).

Gilles Durot received support from the Meyer Foundation and was awarded a Music Prize in 2010 from the Academy of Fine Arts' del Duca Foundation (Institute of France).

He is also a percussion teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris and teaches regularly at the Lucerne Festival Academy.

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