INTRODUCTION
I am a guitarist and composer. From solo piano to flamenco-inspired guitar to humoro-dramatic cues for modern orchestra. I am passionate about creating stellar, artful, and memorable experiences that enrich human life.
My music embodies 19th & 20th century classical, jazz, rhythm and blues, flamenco, and various peculiar incarnations of electric music. It's satirical and dramatic here and delicate and fragile there.
I offer pre-production consulting, spotting sessions, thematic development, harmonization and orchestration of existing melodies, scoring to picture, orchestral mockups, delivery of final stems, score preparation, organization for orchestral re-recording, a film music library, and lessons to people near Portland, Maine.
Freshly minted
Indie Guitar Land
For the first time in many, many moons I turned my focus inward and went down deep to re-discover what I truly love about modern music... Grooves just behind the beat, twisted up harmony, memorable melodic lines, and electric guitars!
Indie Guitar Land is a collection of twelve instrumental tracks written to sync to moving pictures. The kind you see on the silver screen. With big speakers!
The music for this cue is dramatic, playful, humorous, and still without a name BUT I don't love it any less. Each of the four scenes have unique, modulating themes for the characters that I found to be really fun to explore. The instrumentation is strings, woodwinds, brass, pitched and un-pitched percussion, piano, and harp.
Figuring It All Out has so much for some people and absolutely nothing for others! Click on the cover art and you'll see what I mean. Moody is my favorite piece from the album this week.
This album is my most recently collection of music with pieces ranging from the R&B/punk homage to kitchen cleanliness Dishes to the gut-punching, heart wrenching cinematic trailer Dramatic Aristocratica.
The use of proper speakers or headphones is encouraged for listening. Thanks so much should you feel inclined to share it!
This is by far my favorite piece to date! It's a coming of age love story starring Pigeon and Dove.
It employs an edgy theme for Pigeon that borders on the satirical side of things thanks to the bassoons and clarinets that play it.
The primary percussion instrument is a beautifully recorded oil drum which I like because it adds a little 'city' to the otherwise traditional orchestral sections.
I hope you love it!
CLIENTS
"I've had the pleasure of working with Grégoire on a few video/music projects, and have been blown away by his musicianship, taste, his ear and he made for such an easy creative partnership. He's also just a lot of fun to work with! Don't waste more time digging through countless hours of mediocre tracks from online sites and just hire this man. You (and your audience) can thank me in advance."
— Theron Powell, Director, Theron Powell Productions
"What was THAT from?.. it was awesome!" I said Grégoire wrote it. He was like, "OMG no way, that's f@&#ing sick.. that's epic as f&#$.. He wrote that?! What the f%#$ it sounded like it was from a movie!"
— From a conversation between a colleague and his teenage spawn
AWARDS
2018, The Communicator Awards recipient for composition.