{"id":106,"date":"2017-07-14T19:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:46:28","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas follows the classical range\u00a0; his teachers are chantal Cuenot, Javier Quevedo and Alberto Ponce. He has played recitals in Belgium, France, Spain and the United kingdom, where \u2013 upon he recorded for the\u00a0 BBC during the west wilts festival. His first opportunity as studio musician was for the film\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Roselyne et les lions\u00a0\u00bb by Jean Jacques Beneix.<\/p>\n<p>Attracted by various musical contrasts and instrumental acoustics-found of Led Zeppelin, Paco de Lucia, stravinsky, Vicente Asencio\u2026, he begins composing. The Heaven way album, recorded in 2002 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juste-une-trace.com\/fr\/\">Juste une Trace<\/a> label, is the result of five years work of mixed guitaring and writing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nema-concert-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Nema - \u00c9toile Royale\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nema-concert-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nema-concert-391x204.jpg 391w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nema-concert-574x300.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/nema-concert.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nema &#8211; \u00c9toile Royale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2005, he performs with Nema for \u00ables rendez vous du jazz\u00a0\u00bb (DVD YN productions for LYON-City television).<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, he performs in the international competition \u00ab\u00a0Nights of the Lausanne guitar \u00bb, a competition reserved only for guitar composers . With his Sonata\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0 Campanas de la Esperanza\u00a0\u00bb, he receives 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Prize( interpretation annd composition).<\/p>\n<p>The album \u00ab Campanas de la Esperanza \u00bb is released in 2009 on the Ad\u00e9lie prod label, with the involvment of Isma\u00efl Mesbahi, percussionist, and Vincent Da Costa, electro-acoustic expert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/nicolas-guay-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nicolas Guay\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/nicolas-guay-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/nicolas-guay-768x1299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/nicolas-guay-606x1024.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/nicolas-guay.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolas Guay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nicolas also composes for dancing, commissioned by the city of Bron and for audiovisual media, documentary film \u00ab Creuse moi une pirogue\u00a0\u00bb directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/robhopefilms.com\/index.html\">Rob Hope<\/a> and producted by YN productions\/G\u00e9rard.<\/p>\n<p>The following six years mark a substantial work of composition\u00a0: writing of the concerto, preludes, Rencontres (commissioned by the Guitare Vall\u00e9e 2014 festival), Tarentelle, Pop Fantasy and in tribute to Paco De Lucia, his sonata n\u00b02, which he will play during the Ceyz\u00e9riat National Guitar contest in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 he signs under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrastesrecords.com\/\">Contrastes Records\u00a0Label<\/a>\u00a0and records his compositions for solo guitar on the \u00ab\u00a0Paradise Borders\u00a0\u00bb album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas follows the classical range\u00a0; his teachers are chantal Cuenot, Javier Quevedo and Alberto Ponce. He has played recitals in Belgium, France, Spain and the United kingdom, where \u2013 upon he recorded for the\u00a0 BBC during the west wilts festival. His first opportunity as studio musician was for the film\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Roselyne &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9lFwJ-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas-guay.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}