July 13, 2018

The cello, played by the indefatigable Anssi Karttunen, acts as a mediator between the ensemble and the deep-sea sounds … and the results are strikingly beautiful, sometimes discomfiting, and in the end profoundly elegiac.

June 11, 2018

The ensemble Variances under the baton of Thierry Pécou formed the most experimental point in the program. (...) The music became an all-encompassing spatial experience. Frenetic applause from the audience.

June 10, 2018

One of the evening's highlights is the performance of La Voie de la Beauté (engl.: Walking in Beauty) by the chamber ensemble Variances under the baton of the French composer, Thierry Pécou. (...) Variations of the tonal soundscapes, sequences and colours are intriguingly tested out and impressively echo as rhythmic mosaics within the resonating church.

March 26, 2018

La création à New Delhi de cette œuvre inédite de Thierry Pécou est le fruit de la volonté de plusieurs acteurs institutionnels et associatifs franco-indiens.

March 26, 2018

À New Delhi, Thierry Pécou a composé une œuvre inédite en mêlant, par le dialogue, les traditions de musiciens hindoustanis et français. Sangata (« être ensemble ») sera interprété jeudi 29 mars à Grenoble pour le festival Détours de Babel.

April 24, 2018

Outre-mémoire is thus a work that is intensely personal and yet universal for invoking fundamental and still timely questions about wealth and poverty, exploitation and oppression.

March 30, 2018

Musique inventive et étonnamment familière, Sangata délivre un plaisir hédoniste et profond, que saluera le public d’une « standing ovation ».

March 27, 2018

Some write travel diaries. As far as Thierry Pécou is concerned, his wanderings turn into musical scores.  

March 10, 2018

Thierry Pécou (...) fait la preuve qu'un langage moderne peut servir un discours et une forme d'une grande lisibilité.