Rémi Gousseau
music composer and conductor
Rémi Gousseau,A unique figure on the contemporary music scene
« Rémi Gousseau’s enthusiasm , the joy he suffuses when he composes have affected me as well as many others… One dares, without false modesty, without fear, for in his company everything seems possible… Without a doubt, Rémi Gousseau is provocative. He has gone back to basics without forgetting his fathers’ contribution in a 20th century surprised and even often paralyzed by its own boldness »
Michel Déon, writer, from the Académie française.
« Rémi Gousseau does express an uncommon originality in the harmonic treatment of voices… There, a genuine invention appears, something new that has never been heard anywhere before. Definitely there is a Gousseau style in the harmonic treatment of choirs, an harmonic touch you immediately recognize and that makes all the difference between a style and a ready-made design… »
Jëno Rehak, composer and conductor
It’s pleasant to meet a composer who still has a certain idea of the artist who only aspires to charm, move and delight. This idea doesn’t turn its back on the profession… simply this dynamic principle is the essence of lasting creation »
Benoît Duteurtre, writer
Rémi Gousseau’s language, free of academic constraints, relies first on a ritual and a text, he imbues himself with its memory, then creates. Radiant beauty of polyphonic choirs, jubilant outbursts… powerful and varied orchestration… That makes Ad Vesperas a major testimony to sacred music… »
André Gouze O.P., composer
Only a few conductors like Rémi Gousseau have both the prescience of the composers’ musical thought and the necessary experience to deliver it. His musicians forget therefore all their preconceived ideas and deliver the music as he has conceived it.
Jean-Marie Grenier, musicologist