Pierre Lescaut

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Pierre Lescaut is an active composer and pianist based in Sainte-Irène-de-Matapédia, Quebec. The exact Spotify artist 6BeRqZgqBDwzSvBQ5FWAqq aligns with his current artist-controlled Bandcamp, Apple Music artist 1792462477, MusicBrainz artist d28c480f-2a57-42fb-a602-91ee36d16aee, and Wikidata item Q51190708. Born in Montreal in 1957, Lescaut first became known as the keyboardist, composer, and leader of the Quebec jazz-fusion ensemble Aquarelle. The group appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1978, and Lescaut later led jazz quartet and trio performances at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. He moved to the Matapédia Valley in 1986 and developed an instrumental practice combining piano, synthesizers, melodic new-age writing, voice, and field recordings of water, birds, forests, and marshes. His first new-age album, Helianthe, appeared in 1989, followed by a long independent catalog released through Musilescau Records. Current artist-controlled Bandcamp identifies Sainte-Irène, Quebec, lists fifteen projects, and documents seventeen albums since 1990 and three ADISQ nominations for instrumental new-age album. His collision-reviewed principal Spotify catalog in Canada contains twenty-one album and single containers from October 30, 2009 through April 18, 2024. Spotify classifies three as albums and eighteen as singles; MusicList identifies the five-track Helianthe as an EP, producing three albums, one EP, and seventeen other singles. Representative projects include L'aube des jours, L'Aube des jours 2 piano solo, Celestial Emotion, Helianthe, and Ave Maria de Shubert. Current Bandcamp, professional profiles, and the 2024 release confirm continuing activity and the Sainte-Irène location. Public listening and professional information route through the artist-controlled Bandcamp; MusicList does not reproduce direct contact details or social handles. Spotify media is live provider-attributed content with a monogram fallback.