GUILLAUME GESQUIERE

« Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me. »

Arvo Pärt

Guillaume (born 1973 in Paris) is a French composer. He grew up in Paris and lives in Miami, FL. His work has received broad critical acclaim and is particularly noted for its seamless blend of melancholia and high sensibility.

He studied jazz piano with M. Redon and B. Leflanchec (formerly Berklee), and jazz harmony at the ARPEJ school in Paris with P. Baudouin, then Mathematics and Musicology at the University of Lille. After a degree with honors in Sound Engineering and work for cinema and TV, he founded ProMac at 25 (an audio consulting company) and earned three certifications, including Apple Consultant Expert and AVID Field Service Engineer.

He studied for five years at The Juilliard School in New York: classical composition, advanced orchestration, conducting, music theory & analysis, harmony, ear training, sight reading and scoring to picture with Daniel Ott, S. Zyman, M. Shapiro, R. Lustig, M. Ippolito, Dr Knowles, Kendall Briggs, J. Dawe, C. Cummings, J. Vaclavik, E. Fein, Liza Stepanova. In conjunction with his studies, at 40, he founded ProMac Audio for music production and sound design.

He creates original music for artistic films, TV and commercial films, and “behind the scenes” for NYC Ballet, Chanel, Gucci, Estée Lauder, Nowness, Vogue, Vogue China, W Magazine, Grazia, H&M, Amazon Fashion and many more.

He had the honor to work with the following directors: Peter Lindbergh, Stephen Kidd, Ellen von Unwerth, Torkil Gudnason, J-P. Tran, Tetsu Kubota, Nagi Sakai, Chris Bren, Todd Stewart, Chris Craymer, Tom Munro, Martyn Thompson, Phil Pinto, Christopher Anderson, Gregory Harris, Nicholas Moore, Marilou Daubé, Joanna Wrzaszczyk…