A few notes about Serge...
In concert
Greetings!
I want to personally welcome you to my website and share with you here not only the music I have been inspired to create, but also an outline of my own journey as it explains what my music really is about...
You see, quite a few years ago, I found myself totally stressed out and in dire need of peace. I decided to seek a refuge in some of the most beautiful natural settings in the world..Northern British Columbia, Canada.
I settled on the banks of a truly Enchanted River. The river inspired me to resume playing the piano, an early childhood talent and soon I found myself meditating on the keys, creating what ended up being powerfully relaxing and transformational music...
This kinship with nature seems to have facilitated the transfer of it's amazing healing powers into my music. This "infusion" happened--and still happens-- in an entirely intuitional way with only my own underlying need for tranquility to act as a cathalist...and of course the thousands of hours spent around or in water.
My love of water goes back to my very early childhood--I was about 5 years old-- when my dad took me fishing in his old wooden boat on a little lake in eastern France. It was like a revelation. Of course I was excited at the idea of catching my first fish, yet soon I sat mesmerized as the boat sliced through the calm surface of the lake. I was fascinated by the beauty of that early morning, by the mist, by the graceful flight of herons, by the call of cuckoos echoing through the bordering forest. But more than anything I felt a very strong resonance with the water. It was to stay with me during my entire life.
At about the same time, one day, I discovered a huge black instrument standing in our living room at home. A full upright german piano with real ivory keys! Neither my father nor my mom played and I guess they acquired the piano because it was fashionable in those days...( I wish now I had asked them when they were still with us)
Well, they did not have to nudge me into playing. Soon I took lessons and studied classical music at the conservatory in Strasbourg, well into my teens. Like water it just grabbed me and never left me...
Yet, unlike water, music took to the backstage for a while. I started dreaming about adventure...about girls naturally but also about far shores with sandy beaches and warm balmy weather. After my studies I eventually landed an international sales job in Africa and this was to be the beginning of a long period of travelling the world. Although in hindsight, I think I was not cut for this lifestyle, I became involved in markerting luxury perfumes around the globe. For a white knuckled flyer I seem to have managed quite well spending close to 9 months of the year in planes! Mind you a huge ego, lots of champagne and wine helped me along quite nicely...Little did I realize then that I was going to pay a price for living such a hectic and reckless grand lifestyle...
After some 20 years of this, a nervous wreck and totally scattered, I had enough. I decided then to pursue another dream that had come to tickle my ego: building a floating salmon fishing lodge in BC, Canada. I thought this would for sure be the closest I would ever come to relaxing and "fishing my guts out"-- and since it was meant to be roughing it in velvet, get my wife to join me in this adventure!--
Alas! The next 10 years were to be even more intense and stressful than my previous world-hopping experiences. One day, I may write a book about this saga...Thankfully the operation was successful beyond expectation and it's sale left us financially secure.
The log house near a beautiful river came to us in a totally synchronistic way. And when I resumed playing the piano, it was like lava that had been simmering in a volcano's belly for a long long time. Under the accumulated pressure it broke the crust effortlessly and exploded into the bright sky, singing it's healing melodies.
I like to think I am a different person today...Some of my ego has been let go...shredded to bits, rather. Looking into my mirror each morning sure helps!
I still fish, fly fish that is, but only as a pretext to immerse myself in that wonderfully nurturing realm of nature and try to stay connected with it's amazing healing energy, to feel the flow of life.
Music keeps healing me on my ongoing path to serenity and I feel my mission now is to share it's transformational powers with you all and try to make a difference--however small- towards promoting inner peace, balance, understanding and compassion which are so sorely needed on this magnificent Earth of ours.
In harmony and love
Serge
Serge's flowing style, smooth touch and soulful playing soothes audiences the world over and his “Keys to Serenity” recordings bring inner peace, solace and listening joy to an ever increasing number of fans.
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Playing to Heal People, Rivers and Oceans
Serge's love for water has moved him to help raise funds for a number of organisations involved in protecting the integrity of rivers and oceans worldwide. This is achieved through CD sales and by staging various benefit concerts.
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