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Simon-Pierre Bestion

Keyboardist and group leader Simon-Pierre Bestion is the founder of La Tempête, one of France's popular Baroque music groups. He has an unusually wide training background that has enabled him to rethink common repertory works. Bestion was born in 1988. His brother Louis-Noël Bestion is also a Baroque music conductor, and the two brothers have sometimes performed on the same bill. Simon-Pierre trained as a keyboardist at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Nantes (CRR de Nantes), where he studied organ with Michel Bourcier and harpsichord with Laure Morabito and Frédéric Michel, also pursuing master classes with several other top harpsichordists. After making the finals in the Béthune International Organ Competition in 2006, Bestion landed ongoing engagements with the ensemble Cris de Paris and with conductor Laurence Equilbey's Insula Orchestra. He hardly rested on his educational laurels, however. Bestion returned to school, studying conducting at the CCR de Nantes with Valérie Fayet and at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon with Nicole Corti. He explored composition (taking harmony classes with Thomas Lacôte and contemporary music), and studied ethnomusicology with Bruno Messina, singing with Dominique Moaty, and conducting with Claire Levacher. All these experiences gave Bestion the ambition to form and shape his own ensembles. Bestion and viola da gamba player Julie Dessaint formed the Europa Barocca Chamber Music Ensemble in 2007, and he established the Luce del Canto choir shortly after that. Bestion merged these two groups to form La Tempête in 2015. After experiencing early success with immersive concerts that encompassed elements of staging even in non-theatrical works, La Tempête was signed to the Alpha label in 2017 and released the album Azahar, with a pure Bestion program of music by Alfonso X El Sabio, Machaut, Stravinsky, and Maurice Ohana. Bestion and La Tempête followed that up with Larmes de Résurrection: Schütz, Schein in 2018, and a recording of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206, the following year. Bestion and La Tempête returned in 2022 with the album Hypnos, exploring works of various periods linked by the idea of sleep, and that year, premiered a contemporary vocal work, L'Enfant noir (known in English as The Dark Child), based on the novel by Camara Laye and featuring music by Jean-Louis Florentz.
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