My Music
Photography : Didier Pilon
Genesis
"My music was born from silence and time. Much silence. Much time. Like all living things.
My nature being contemplative, solitary and free, made for perseverance and constancy, every choices of life has favored contemplation, abstraction, spirituality ; what fifty years of practising piano have been perfectly in harmony with what I am.
My music was also born from the extrem fire of hardship, the one that erase everything in sight, the one that leaves no ashes that could carry the hope of being a fertile soil...
Then, with total surprise and in the outburst of Emptyness, the subtle grace of Providence has filed its invigorating wing on the lead, and the Gold of my music sprang from the cradle of my childhood. Yet, it had never left me for a day, but it was musicif the others, the song of the others. Now, it is about bringing to light the melodies of my inner life and letting the stream of improvisation flowing. Willingly knowing the joy of keeping nothing, accepting the pure creation that crosses your fingers like sand in open hand.
So was born my music."
the life of my music
"I create a living music that constantly ask to be regerated ; moreover, because I can not memorized written music, apart from few musical notes drawn on my sheet, I am droven to improvise, calling upon my excellent memory of atmospheres and stories I want to express.
Nevertheless the result remains complex, mixing high concentration and total openning.
Like me, this music is made to go on wide roads, my light instrument as unique luggage.
I contemplate all these years of life...
Of these multiples itinaries and deviations that I took, of all landscapes and homes I lived in, of all artistics path and inner quests, remains the most beautiful journey, the one I call « The Good Voyage » laid down in the cradle of my birth. MY MUSIC"
Catherine Haguest
My compositions
"I like to improvise freely and with intensity on the piano during hours without discontinuity.
But the discovery of the synthétiseur, at the same time than the burst of my music, has allowed me to enter in the space of calls more deeply. And enter in the space of musical liberty I need.
My music has short composed melody lines that lead the main theme into improvisation. I write and sing chants, surronded by my music and an atmosphere always spiritual.
"EAUX PROFONDES" (Deep Waters), Album I, De la Naissance à la Lumière (From Birth to Light)
2017's Creation
Four mouvements composition and improvisation.
Duration : about 30 mn
"EAUX PROFONDES"(Deep Waters), Album II, Eaux Vives, le temps de vivre (Lively Waters, time to live)
2018's Creation
One mouvement composition and improvisation.
Duration : about 40 mn
"L'ESPRIT DE LA FORÊT" (The spirit of the Forest), La vie secrète de la Nature (The secret life of Nature)
2018's creation
Three mouvements and one threnody composition and improvisation.
Duration : about 20 mn
"ODE AUX MÈRES VEILLEUSES" (Ode to the Mothers who look after us)
2018's creation
Two mouvements composition and incantatory Ode.
Duration : about 15 mn
Catherine Haguest travels along with her instrument - or goes to every place where there is a piano- to perform private or public concerts. Please contact us if you are interested and for more information.