Patrick Molard was born in 1951 in St Malo. He started with the Scottish Highland Bagpipe in 1965 with the Bagad Quic en Groigne (St Malo) and the An Ere Bagad from Rennes, where he met Jakez Pincet, his first pipe master, who enables him to go on to study with the two great Scottish pipers Robert Brown & Robert Nicol, both Queen Elizabeth' personal pipers. With those Scottish masters, he worked on a hundred or so classical pipe pieces, or Piobaireachd. They not only taught him to play Piobaireachd but also its spirit, philosophy, the differences between space and time, shadow and light, the kind of recipe that enables the playing of such moving tunes. |
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