Rando Baie Festival, Mont Saint Michel Bay, France ~ Damien Aribert
The Rando Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel is a unique multi-hike event nationally, between Normandy and Brittany. It is a promotion and an axis of tourist development on the whole territory of the bay of Mont Saint-Michel.
The Rando Baie invites you to discover the bay of Mont Saint-Michel on foot, on horseback, by bike and by canoe. It brought together more than 6,000 hikers in June 2014. The next edition will take place on June 3, 4 and 5, 2016, with two starting points: Genêts and Roz-sur-Couesnon.
The visual for the 2016 edition is by Daniel Jan, graphic designer and lover of the Bay. The bay of Mont Saint-Michel is a vast territory of approximately 500 km² between Normandy and Brittany. With its varied landscapes (beaches, grasses, dunes, cliffs, beaches, foreshore, polders, marshes, groves) the Bay has an extraordinary natural, cultural and architectural heritage! The Bay and Mont Saint-Michel have been listed as UNESCO heritage since 1979.
Born in 1981, Damien ARIBERT started his classical guitar studies at the age of 7, first with Evelyne LACHERET and later on with Brigitte REPITON. In 2000, he entered the ‘Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Danse (ENMD)’ in Romans sur Isère, in the class of Gilles GOGNIAT, where he obtained his degree ‘Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales (DEM)’.
From 2004 to 2006, he studied with Emmanuel ROSSFELDER (the winner of the ‘Victoires de la Musique Classique’ in 2004 and a former pupil of Alexandre LAGOYA), and obtained in 2008 his classical guitar teaching state diploma.
His very eclectic musical styles inspired him to create various pieces (Editions du Petit Page) ranging from a suite for 4 cellos, as a tribute to the famous Finnish band ‘APOCALYPTICA’, to a romantic jazz-waltz for solo guitar ‘La Rossfelda’, dedicated to Emmanuel ROSSFELDER (who added the piece to his repertoire). He furthermore composed pieces in the South American music styles (‘Eclipse à Rio’, Editions Soldano), swing, ragtime…to develop a technique of playing inspired by the bassists, unreleased on classical guitar which he named “PERCUSLAP” (simultaneous combination of slap and percussions).
He played at various festivals (Nice Festival ‘C’est pas classique’, ‘Festival Des Vents’ in Morières Les Avignon, ‘Musiques à Pontorson’, ‘Guitares du Cotentin’…) as well as on different regional and national venues (in Aubagne, Marseille, Pernes les Fontaines, Avignon, La Garde Adhémar, Vénéjan, Valréas, La Baume de Transit, Comps…), which resulted in musical meetings with high quality artists like Per-Olov KINDGREN, a Swedish guitarist with international fame.
Damien Aribert recorded his CD ‘Destinations’ in 2014 at the internationally renowned studio ‘La Buissonne’ reputed for acoustic qualities.
2017 was a year rich in awards: he won 1st Prize at the International Competition InterArtia, in the category ‘Classical Guitar’, for his entire body of work, and won 1st Prize at the Greek International Composition Competition ‘Kithara’ for his bossa-nova ‘Nin-Nin’ (the piece had been published earlier in the year in the American magazine ‘Classical Guitar’). Finally, he won the award for ‘Artist of the Year 2017’ in the ‘Classical guitar’ and ‘Musical composition’ categories, which he received from the ‘International Art Society’, as part of the 35th International Guitar Festival in Volos, Greece.
Success continues in 2018 with Damien winning for the second time in a row 1st Prize for best composition at the Greek International Competition ‘Kithara’, with his bossa nova piece ‘Chouttis’, soon to be published by Editions Soldano.
Honorary Member of International Art Academy, he currently teaches classical guitar at the music school of Avranches-Mont Saint Michel (France) and plays on hand-crafted ‘Damien ARIBERT signature’ concert guitars made by the French luthier Renaud GALABERT.
‘Suite for lovers’ (written by Maria Linnemann) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
– Sempre solo 00:00
– Canzone d’amore 02:31
– Souvenir 04:38
– Head in the clouds 06:40
‘Lettre à Olivier Messiaen” (written by Roland Dyens) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September, when suddenly bells rang…..
‘Lettre noire” (written by Roland Dyens) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
‘Tango en skaï’ (written by Roland Dyens) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
Parade” (written by Nikita Koshkin) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
‘Asturias’ (composed by Isaac Albeniz) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
Comme un clin d’oeil’ (written by Damien Aribert, dedicated to Maria Linnemann) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.
Hypnotic’ (composed by Damien Aribert, dedicated to the guitarist Cécile Joly) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September, using ‘PERCUSLAP’ (technical playing developped by Damien Aribert).
‘Can U feel the groove?’ (composed by Damien Aribert, dedicated to the guitarist Cécile Joly) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September, using ‘PERCUSLAP’ (technical playing developped by Damien Aribert).
‘Little clown’s ragtime’ (composed by Maria Linnemann) played live in concert for Rando Baie Festival 2021, in Genêts (France), the 11th of September.