Cédric Hanriot

BIO:

Cédric Hanriot is a pianist, composer, arranger, sound designer, and music producer. Winner of prestigious scholarships and international awards, Hanriot is known worldwide for his collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Terri Lyne Carrington, Donny McClaslin, Erik Truffaz, and other big names in the jazz world.
Hanriot served as pianist and sound designer alongside with Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Gregory Porter on Dianne Reeves’s album “Beautiful Life”, which won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2015. 

Curious, attracted by surprising mixtures, and fond of new openings, Cédric Hanriot seeks to consider and approach crossovers differently. To breathe freshness into his creations, he draws inspiration from great classical composers (Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen, Chopin, Bach), but he also draws equally from electronic music, hip-hop (Common, Kendrick Lamar, J Dilla), neo-soul and pop rock, all while linking it to his profoundly jazz identity (Bud Powell, Errol Garner, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau). 

In 2022, Cédric Hanriot released his last album “Time is Color Vol.1” which is a singular work, a powerful mixture of jazz, hip-hop, and urban music – an album that resembles himself. The enthusiastic reception of “Time is Color Vol.1” by the public as well as the press testifies to the strength of the magic operated by Hanriot. The choice to unreservedly take on his authenticity, his openness to a rich range of musical genres, and his quasi-scientific sensitivity to colors, textures, and musical dimensions has borne fruit.
“Time is Color Vol.1” has been the subject of a number of glowing reviews: Le Monde, The Jazz Shows with Jamie Cullum, one song appeared on Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 Spotify playlist, among others. The album was quickly voted CHOC by Jazz Magazine, 5-stars by BBC Magazine, and ranked among the ten best albums of the year 2022 by the English magazine MOJO.

This man, who has accompanied the masters of jazz for more than a decade now, is now becoming one of them, an unclassifiable artist who searches for the right sounds and colors with a delicate stubbornness. His eclectic musical universe reflects the atypical background of a self-taught musician who built himself at his own time, and above all, in his own temporality. Cédric Hanriot is an inventive artist, inhabited by an embedded rich interior, which is expressed with a mixture of strength and finesse as rare as it is precious.

Performance credits

Europe

Americas

Asia

Awards

Collaborations

Dianne Reeves, Herbie Hancock, Terri Lyne Carrington, John Patitucci, Donny McCaslin, Erik Truffaz, Metropol Orkestra, Maria Mendes, John Beasley, Florin Nicolescu, Luis Salinas, Melissa Aldana, Tineke Postma, Nelson Veras, Wayne Escoffery, Tim Miller, Michael Janisch, Braxton Cook, Jason Palmer, Gregoire Maret, Clarence Penn, Alex Han, Otis Brown III, André Ceccarelli, Paco Sery.

Record Labels

Masterclasses

Partnerships