Pierre-Yves Moign

Pierre-Yves Moign is a Compositeur French.

He was born with Brest in 1927. He follows the classes of writing to the Higher National Academy of Music of Paris where he obtains its First price of Counterpoint in 1952.

Its first work played in public was the incidental music of the first spectacle of the MIME Marcel Marceau in 1948. As of 1952, it is interested in the traditional musics and, in 1955 and 1961, creates musical units (of which the famous " Kabalerien ") with which it carries out several discs, passes to Olympia, makes several rounds in concerts through Europe and takes part in radio programs and of television. Starting from 1963, it studies musical pedagogy and more particularly the active methods than it puts into practice in its courses and the choral society created by him in 1969, War Hentou Breiz , which accommodates children and young people.

It carries out a career of type-setter in parallel, writing for all kinds of vocal ensembles and instrumental and component of many parts for the Celtic toothing-stone and musical teaching. It is him which, more recently, carries out the orchestration of works of Didier Squiban, in particular the symphony “Brittany” (2000) and the symphony “Iroise” (2004). Of 1978 with 1999, it directs the Breton Center of Popular Art, founded in Brest with its initiative. Beside the traditional music school, it organizes spectacles and concerts of which the “Meetings traditional Arts and contemporary company”, the “Crossroads of the Celtic countries” as well as many contests of music. It is decorated with the Ordre of Hermine.

See too

List of Breton type-setters

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