Alain Roche is a Swiss pianist, composer and performer. After two decades dedicated to creating music for dance and theatre, he now focuses on his own compositions for solo piano. The concept of transformation is at the heart of his artistic research and creations.
Like the blue hour of the morning that marks the transition from night to day, Alain Roche is fascinated by natural transformations. Over the years, these have become a major source of inspiration for his compositional work. He chooses these suspended moments, where everything changes every second, to connect with his audience.
Through unique artistic proposals, whether outdoors with his piano in the air for the unusual Piano Vertical project or indoors with L’Heure Bleue, an acoustic concert on the ground, he offers a space-time of total immersion. During the 2023-2024 season, he achieved a musical feat unique in the world: from the winter solstice to the summer solstice, he played for 182 consecutive mornings, at dawn during the blue hour, suspended from his vertical piano, inviting more than 15,000 people to look up at the sky and contemplate a beauty renewed each day.
Alain is invited in August 2024 to the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, where he performed Gabriel Fauré’s Hymn to Apollo, rearranged by Victor Le Masne, suspended in the air with his Vertical Piano in the heart of the Stade de France. Before 80,000 spectators and several hundred million television viewers, he performs a duet with tenor Benjamin Bernheim, dressed by designer Kevin Germanier and conducted by Thomas Jolly. A composer of radiant music, a daring inventor, he creates a world where soundscapes are reshaped, between lyricism and cataclysm.
