Gilles Durot

A precocious multi-instrumentalist, it was with Jean-Daniel Lecoq at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and then at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in Michel Cerutti's class that Gilles Durot developed his talent for percussion, which he quickly put to use in the major Paris orchestras (Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, etc.) under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Myung-Whun Chung, Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, Susanna Mälkki, David Eötvös and others.
Masur, Myung-Whun Chung, Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, Susanna Mälkki, David Robertson and Matthias Pintscher.

At the end of 2007, he joined the Ensemble Intercontemporain, with whom he has since performed regularly as a soloist and taken part in numerous premieres. He has also been a soloist with the Ensemble Multilatérale and a member of the Paris Percussion Group since their creation in 2005 and 2012.
In 2008, Gilles Durot founded the Trio K/D/M alongside percussionist Bachar Khalifé and accordionist Anthony Millet. The trio has created a new repertoire that has been widely performed on the international scene: Centre Pompidou, Archipel (Geneva), ManiFeste (Ircam), Musica (Strasbourg) and Présences (Radio France) festivals, Villa Médicis, Berlin Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Doha, Shanghai, etc.

As a soloist with a number of composers keen to develop the use of percussion in the contemporary repertoire, Gilles Durot has premiered over 80 solo works, including concertos and solo pieces by Raphaël Cendo, Bruno Mantovani, Martin Matalon, Jérôme Naulais, Gilbert Nouno, Yann Robin, Kenji Sakai, Marco Antonio Suarez Cifuentes and Agata Zubel.

Constantly on the lookout for new musical experiences, he has also collaborated with a variety of groups ranging from jazz to rock, performing with artists from such eclectic backgrounds as Johnny Hallyday, Les Tambours du Bronx, rapper Kery James, tango guitarist Tomás Gubitsch and jazzman Louis Sclavis.

A regular teacher at the Lucerne Festival Academy from 2010 to 2017, Gilles Durot has been professor of percussion at the Paris Conservatoire since 2016.

He is a laureate of the Meyer Foundation and received the 2010 Music Prize from the Fondation del Duca (Académie des Beaux-Arts).

Gilles Durot is also collection director at Editions Musicales Artchipel.