Mont D'ar Galon - Music

Artist Name Is Gwenaël Kerléo. Gwenaël Kerléo A Breton Harpist And Singer Was Born In 1975 In Côte D’Ivoire Africa Where She Lived The First Two Years Of Her Life. Back To Brest In Brittany France She Discovered The Sound Of The Celtic Harp Thanks To Alan Stivell’s Albums But Also Thanks To Her First Grade Teacher Who One Day Brought Her Instrument In Class. That Is When Gwenaël Kerléo Decided To Start Learning The Celtic Harp. At The Age Of 9 She Took Her First Lessons With Hervé Queffeléant From The Group Triskell . He Taught Her Orally Leaving A Lot Of Room To Personal Composition And Improvisation. In 1992 Gwenaël Kerléo Was Awarded The First Prize Of The Music Conservatory With First Class Honours. Nurtured On Traditional Tunes From Brittany And Ireland And Possessing A Solid Musical Knowledge The Young Harpist Quickly Decided To Develop Her Own Creations And Recorded Her First Compositions In 1994 Together With Traditional Melodies. Two Years Later In 1996 She Released Her First Album “Terre Celte” “Celtic Land” Containing Only Her Compositions. On The Album The Celtic Harp Was Accompanied With A Violin A Wooden Transverse Flute And Scottish Bagpapipes. “Terre Celte” Recieved A Warm Welcome From The Public And The Press And A Programme On The Artist Was Broadcast On France Musiques National Radio Station .
Eager To Live Yet New Musical Experiences Gwenaël Kerléo Contacted Jazz Musicians And Mixed The Sound Of Her Harp With The Improvisations Of The Saxophone The Chromatic Accordion The Guitar Or The Drums And Recorded A Second Album “Chemins De Brume” “misty Paths” Which Was Released In 2000. Together With That Album Concerts Became More And More Numerous And Provided The Young Woman With More Occasions To Meet A Larger Public And More Particularly In Italy Where She Played Regularly. That Album Marked A Turning Point In Her Career And Prompted Her To Become A Professional Musician. Willing To Manage Her Career By Herself She Set Up Her Own Company Of Music Production And Entertainment.
In 2003 While She Was Expecting Her Second Child Gwenaël Kerléo Recorded Her Third Album “Yelen”. That Album Displaying A Great Maturity Was Organized As A Full Work For A Single Harp. With A Moving Intimacy It Was Composed Of Three Movements Each Alternating Slower And Faster Passages Where One Could Hear The Young Woman’s Voice. Thanks To This Work Greeted By The Press As “the Apotheosis Of A Great Artist” Gwenaël Kerléo Gave More And More Concerts Abroad In Germany Hungary But Most Of All In Russia Where She Played Solo In The Philarmonic Concert Halls Of Perm Ekaterinbourg And Novosibirsk.
In 2005 Gwenaël Kerléo Started A Collaboration With Storyteller Jean-Marc Derouen And Featured With Him In A Show Entitled “Chemins De Femmes” “women’s Ways” . The Two Artitsts Still Currently Provide Various Shows Of Storytelling For Children And Adults. She Also Initiated A Duet With Cellist Patrick Langot Who Played In The Famous Ensemble Matheus A Group Nominated Several Times For The French Music Awards And Adapted Her Album “Yelen” For A Harp And Cello Duet. In Addition She Started Learning The Breton Language In An Intensive 6-Month Course.
As She Was More Renowned For Her Instrumental Creations Gwenaël Kerléo Took Up The Challeng Of Producing An Album Exclusively With Songs. Not Being A Writer However She Collaborated With Authors Serge Cabon And Jean Pierre Kermarrec For Lyris In French Louis-Jacques Suignard And Gareth Harris For Lyrics In Breton And In English. These Collaborations Resulted In The Recording Of The Alubum “Quai N7” “Quay Number Seven” Featuring Several Musicians From “Pevar” Kevin Camus Uilleann Pipes Yvon Molard Drums Yann Quefféléant Guitar And New Musicians Too Jérôme Le Tareau Wooden Transverse Flute And Mathilde Chevrel Cello . The Album Was Released In Spring 2012. That Same Year The Artist Gave Performances In Paraguay At The Mundial Del Arpa Festival And In Belgium At The Brussels Harp Festival. read less