Trained at the conservatory and graduated from Serge Garcia’s violin class and musical training, Pierre-Marie Braye-Weppe then obtained a CFEM in jazz and improvised music at the conservatory of the VIth arrondissement of Paris in the class of David Patrois. He then met the musical intimacy of Didier Lockwood.
He worked under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus, Maxim Vengerov, Patrick Bismuth, Didier Lockwood, as well as with Vincent Roca, Romane, Arnaud Méthivier, Yvan Talbot, Billy Cobham. Arranger and artistic director on several song projects in French-speaking countries, composes on various short films for the Arte or France 2 channel but works mainly for the theatrical world, within the Coup de Poker Company with Guillaume Barbot, as well as with other directors. Performer: develops a violin playing on atypical instruments thanks to an association with Violectra and the violin maker David Bruce Johnson (Birmingham, UK). Creates music on a 6-string electric violin, and a 5-string octave violin, extending the musical spectrum to the viola, the cello. Combined with “loop sampling” (live loop recording) and sound effects processing, an orchestral dimension is born, the identity of his solo compositions.
He travels all over France and abroad, more than 1000 concerts including L’Européen, l’Olympia, Les Djangos d’or, Festival Django Reinhardt, the Festival d’Avignon, or the Théâtre National de la Colline…
Born in 1986 in Toulouse, Bastien Ribot studied classical music with Aimée Auriacombe at the conservatory. Then he discovered Gypsy Jazz, which led him to perform with the big names of the style such as Angello Debarre, Steve Laffont, Tchavolo Schmitt, Rocky Gresset or Stochelo Rosenberg…
He worked on jazz with Didier Lockwood in his school from which he graduated, then he formed the RP Quartet with Edouard Pennes, Rémi Oswald and Damien Varaillon. The group performed in festivals around the world, the biggest Parisian venues and signed 4 albums with the Label “Frémeaux & Associés”.
In addition to participating in several projects (Corsican Quaret, François Poitou Quintet, Gwen Cahue Quartet, etc.), Bastien Ribot continues to deepen his writing work within his Jazz groups such as Flors de Març (with guitarist Rémi Gauche) or Lo Triò (with guitarist Émile Melenchon and double bassist Rémi Bouyssière) or Violin Standards (with organist Laurent Coulondre and drummer Gautier Garrigue).