Nicolas Vérin
Nicolas Vérin (born 21 June 1958 in Saint Omer, France) is a French composer and professor of music.
Within contemporary music, his voice appears original and unusual. Captivated by the musical gesture and the life of sounds, he explores in a singular manner a fascination for time and its complexity. He draws into this open field a plurality of languages, to achieve a synthesis beyond dogmas and trends[1].
Nicolas Vérin received commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France, INA-GRM, Studios, Festivals and Conservatoires. He was composer in residence in the Midi-Pyrénées region and was awarded the prize Villa Médicis hors les murs. His music, published by Éditions Jobert, has been performed and broadcasted worldwide.
Beginnings
After initial studies with private professors of piano, at the Martenot School and the Brest Conservatory, he obtained his Diplôme de fin d’études from the Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur in piano, studies in chamber music, harmony. At age 12 he started to learn guitar on his own, and a year later founds and leads a pop music group. This was to be followed by jazz piano, which he learned mostly on his own, but also with teachers (Matias Pizarro, Jimmy Cheatham, François Couturier) After his baccalauréat, he followed a summer workshop in Cordes, near Toulouse, with INA-GRM composers Jacques Lejeune and Jean Schwartz, during which he decided to become an electroacoustic composer. He then registered in music and science at the Universities of Paris VI-Jussieu, Brest and Paris VIII-Vincennes, where he obtained a licence de musique (B.A.). During this time, he organized with a fellow student the first electroacoustic music concert in the city of Brest.