Lost and Found

train to elsewhere

3 rd final sketch of my 8 piano project, where I am going to record 8 piano pieces on 8 different pianos all over europe in summer 2015

Dirk Maassen - Zenith

When we think back on our past battles, it matters not whether we were right or wrong, we simply regret that they ever took place and the hurt they caused. I began playing and found myself channeling Ennio Morricone. The piece wrote itself--my engagement was mostly as a listener. At 4:36 I'm referencing his theme for the television series "Secrets Of The Sahara". All my pieces are mixed for headphones only.

Past Battles (ennio)

Tambour - Chapitre I | mr002

Listen/Buy/Download:
Bandcamp : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitre-i
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/album/1T9ZEbw8xXTWjBz5z0440N
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/chapitre-i-ep/id1050834587
BUY / 12" VINYL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitres-vinyl-edition

.: Esquisses oubliées en trois mouvements :.
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay
Piano - Simon P. Castonguay
Violon I - Rose Frappier
Violon II - Audrée Leduc
Alto - Mélanie Venditti
Recorded by Benoît Parent
Mixed by Benoît Parent
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne
Cello - Anaïs Constantin

Tambour - Esquisses oubliées en trois mouvements

Leaving

Excerpt from Piano Day 2016

Recorded by Myles Mumford at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms

Eighty-Eight Days

Atlases (Luke Howard)

Moderna Records is celebrating Record Store Day 2017 with the release of its very first vinyl in partnership with Return To Analog : Montreal neo-classical composer TAMBOUR’s Chapitres. 

BUY / 12" VINYL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitres-vinyl-edition

This collection presents a selection of tracks from TAMBOUR (aka Simon P. Castonguay)’s acclaimed EPs Chapitre I (2015) and Chapitre II (2016), here reunited under a single banner and pressed on limited-edition high quality vinyl with brand new artwork by Marie-Pier Meilleur. 

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The Nude & The Quiet
from Chapitre I EP [2015] 
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay 

Recorded by Benoît Parent 
Mixed by Pierre Duchesne 
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne 

Piano/Tonal percussions - Simon P. Castonguay 
Violon I - Rose Frappier 
Violon II - Audrée Leduc 
Alto - Mélanie Venditti 
Cello - Eugénie Lalonde

Chapitres

BUY / 12" VINYL

Tambour - The Nude & The Quiet (Vinyl Edition)

02 Sunlight Zone

Piano solo piece from my new EP "Chrysalide", released on March 29th 2019, with Memory Recordings.
© 2019 Dominique Charpentier. All rights reserved
© 2019 Memory Recordings. All rights reserved
Artwork by Anna Salzmann: www.annasalzmann.com/

Chrysalide

"Terre" - Piano Day 2019 (from my Chrysalide EP, out now)

10 Waltzes

So It Is

Christopher Dicker - And So It Is

Compared with the likes of Max Richter, Dustin O'halloran, Nils Frahm and other like minded composers, Hutching's has prompted much critical praise worldwide, with MOJO Magazine declaring her work as ‘stirring, vigorous, [and] grandly melodic”. Hutchings debut album was listed in that magazine’s Top 5 Independent releases and has continued to endure and impress since. Hutchings is subtly playful within the direct and emotive candour of her style, making for an open and surprising journey throughout. Balancing the beautiful fragility in her work with a deeper sense of urgency creates a striking charge to her performance with a compelling pulse that also encompasses a lightness of touch in parts making for many shades set within Hutchings’ beguiling vision.
Her compositions move from disarmingly spare and elegant beginnings to curl out with a tingling edge, propelling its austerity into urgent and epic realms. Violin, cello, heighten the flight these pieces can take as well as dip and swell within the more dimly lit moods of gentler nuance, casting a particular spell across the range of feeling captured in Sophie’s playing. Both unfussed and exquisite though constantly evolving....

02 Sunlight Zone

Sophie Hutchings