Biography

Once upon a time there was Zen World — or how to slip into a pool of peace and serenity and get away from it all. On this new CD, characterized by its femininity, universality and grace, Thierry David opens the gateway to this world. The music is sweetly and sensitively enhanced in voice by four talented singers from Latin America, Asia and Europe for an incomparable moment of relaxation.
Internationally famous composer, director and producer Thierry David is one of the great names in new age music. Claude Challe, initiator of the Buddha Bar compilations, calls David one of the few French people to legitimately belong to the genre. On the eve of the release of his new work Evasions (released in France, May 2007), this talented creator tells us about several significant times in his life. Thierry David was born in Paris in 1955. Rather than quietly flow through life, David mapped out his daily life and planned his life’s path. During his early years he practiced the major pieces from the classical repertoire before discovering the freedoms of jazz while still a teenager. “For my parents,” he remembers, "this confirmed passion for music was only a hobby.”

Upon graduation from ESSEC, one of the prestigious business schools in Paris, he flew to Peru as a volunteer posted to the cultural service of the French Embassy in Lima. During this long stay on the other side of the world, David devoted most of his leisure time to music. When he wasn’t playing with Peruvian musicians he was composing his first melodies, inspired by traditional classical music and enriched with departures into jazz and excursions into the South American repertoire. A great traveller who stayed in remote regions for long periods at the drop of a hat, David succumbed to the charms of the Andean melodies.