Gregoire Ming

The recording proposed to us by the Gregorian Schola of the Cathedral of the Holy Saviour and titular organist Grégoire Rolland has taken the bold step of bringing face-to-face the most ancient Western Christian musical tradition and the creativity of today’s artist, not as a forced encounter of two universes, but in profound communion, proof that grace has not ceased bearing fruit.

On this recording and his second as a leader, "Wanted", the exceptional chromatic harmonica player Grégoire Maret once again finds himself moving away from his complementary duties as a sideman, and focusing on his role as a leader with his own musical vision. Naturally, Maret finds collaborating an important part of developing as an artist, but he is especially aware of the pressures imposed by the needs of others, and the necessity of removing these outside influences in order to get to one's core identity.

Paris-born Grégoire Hetzel is a César Awards nominated music composer who emerged onto the film scene in the early 2000s scoring movies by acclaimed French directors Arnaud Desplechin (« Kings and Queen », « A Christmas Tale »), Mathieu Amalric (« The Wimbledon Stadium ») and Emmanuel Bourdieu (« Intrusions », « Poison Friends »). A former student of Paris Conservatory, Hetzel started his performing career whilst performing on the piano to silent films at the French Cinémathèque. Having been called a soulchild of Georges Delerue, Hetzel is versatile and able to shift from pop music scores to electronic soundscapes, writing big symphonic scores as well as folk tunes – which he did for the Australian movie « The Tree ». Hetzel also scored movies from Emmanuel Mouret and Mathieu Demy among others. In 2006, he produced and arranged French singer Marie Modiano's first album, « I'm Not A Rose ». In 2013, he wrote the opera « La Chute de Fukuyama », along with French writer Camille de Toledo. The piece was premiered in Paris at Salle Pleyel with the Radio France philharmonic orchestra and received great reviews. Grégoire Hetzel also wrote a novel, « Le Vert Paradis », published by Gallimard in 2003.