Pierre-Michel Sivadier

pianist, composer, singer and songwriter 

emusic4you@orange.fr

Composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, Pierre-Michel Sivadier could be best be situated in a poetic region somewhere between jazz and popular song.
He is endowed with music. He worked amongst other with Jane Birkin, James Ivory and Michel Hermon and was a member of Christian Vander's group, Magma, for ten years.

As a piano-player he moves between jazz improvization and silent movie accompaniment. The richness and warmth of his composition and interpretation can be heard on Paysages avec Piano, Rue Francoeur, D'amour Fou d'Amour and Coltrane à l'Instant - a special song written for Christian Vander's tribute CD to John Coltrane.

Pierre-Michel has arranged a jazz version of Carmen named Regarde Carmen with the African female singer Awa Timbo and the guitar player Didier Guegdes. Pierre-Michel has also written original songs and Regarde Carmen was played in théâtre de Caen and in jazz clubs in Paris.

One of Pierre-Michel's songs Follement doux can be heard in one of the Larrieu brothers' film Peindre ou faire l'amour with  Daniel Auteuil and Sabine Azema.  He also composes for Céline Caussimon and Stella Vander. 

Pierre-Michel Sivadier  frequently works  with  Michel Hermon. They both played  Léo Ferré's songs all over the world ( Japan, Russia, USA, Europe ). Pierre-Michel also accompanies Hermon on piano in  the show " Dietrich hotel".

Pierre-Michel Sivadier  played  in the movie " A soldier's daughter never cries  " directed by  James Ivory where he met Jane Birkin. He played with her for the first time in 1999 festival d'Avignon .

Pierre-Michel  Sivadier's cd " D’amour fou d’amour "  was produced by Christian Vander in 1995. In D'amour fou d'amour Pierre-Michel plays and sings his own music with a modern jazz band.

Sivadier  has worked with many jazzmen : Louis Petrucciani, Magik Malik, Peter Oxley. He recorded  "Les Fous du Large" with his own jazz band A3 with Mishko and Yvo Abadi.

As he likes to improvise and to write music, Pierre-Michel accompanies  silent movies on piano. He often plays at the Cinémathèque française or in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. He also played in the Amsterdam Filmuseum and in german film festivals. He wrote film scores ( " A ciel ouvert Casablanca " de Rachel Stella  ) and he has accompanied on piano " Nosferatu " by  Murnau, " Die Nibelungen " by  Fritz Lang and Carl Dreyer's, Buster Keaton's , Charlie Chaplin's, Louis Delluc's films.

Pierre-Michel Sivadier plays piano on stage, composes or direct :

CD French songs by Pierre-Michel Sivadier

Playing, composing or writing on albums by other artists