Arnaud NANO MÉTHIVIER

The first times

The early childhood years

He began learning music at the age of 7, using the accordion.

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The Years of Childhood

He makes his first televisions

Play and make dance the Auvergne folk group "La Châtaigne".

First ball and dancing tea.

First composition.

Piano learning

First award "Young talent Orléans winner"

The teenage years

He joined the group "Little prodigies of the accordion.

First hit record the little prodigies of the accordion

First major stages in Europe (Zenith, Convention center)

National media coverage (the 20H of TF1, FR2, FR3, Michel Drucker…)

Learning the saxophone

The young adult years

First singer accompaniment: "Marcel Kanche" (Barclay record)

First recording as accompaniment. ("I smile and I smoke" - Kanche)

First tour (Marcel Kanche)

First record under the name of "Arnaud Méthivier"

First triathlon

The years of majority

First theater yard (Cour Florent)

It accompanies the entry of the accordion into French conservatories

He obtains his first diploma with mention of national education (Philosophy-Math)

We are not everyday 20 years old

First hit album "Stephan Eicher - Engelberg" (2 million albums)

First big tour, with "Les innocents"

First tour with Kent

First visit to the beloved country: Corsica

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The revelation years

First successful composition ("Let's go to the countryside" - Kent)

First clip

First big show (300,000 people alongside Boy George)

First concert outside Europe (Canada)

First film shoot (“Don't laugh about happiness” - Guillaume Nicloux)

First Olympia (with Kent)

One hundred studio-recorded discs (George Moustaki, Kent, at P’tit Bonheur,

Michèle Torr, Peter Kröner…)

Concert Salle Pleyel (with Suzanne Véga)

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The years of artistic independence

First disc "Arnaud Méthivier- Chansons"

First tour "Arnaud Méthivier"

He created the music for a feature film "The Boy on the Hill" by Dominique Baron.

The thirties

He meets Otto Lechner and creates with him the duo "Arnotto".

First awards in adulthood: "The Golden Ear" and "Talent Jazz Adami"

First documentary production ("The accordion found" - Les ateliers de Radio

France).

He is artistic director of the July 14 festivities in Orléans and the Loire Festival

(500,000 people)

First stage production ("Le bal des airs" - National stage of Orleans)

First role in the theater ("Much noise for nothing" - Laurent Laffargue - Théâtre de la

city)

He sets various documentaries to music.

The years of maturity

First Label Bleu record (Nano- "The other side of the wind")

First Télérama cover "The 5 artists of the year"

First step in contemporary dance with André Sitter, Serge Ambert and Hamid Ben Mahi.

The first immersion in the Hip Hop world with the dancer Hamid ben Mahi

First immersion in the baroque world with singer Bruno Bonhoure

First meeting with Francis Cabrel (“Saturday evening on earth” tour)

First autonomous paraglider flights

First ascent of Mont Blanc (4810m)

First sailing tour of Corsica.

First artistic direction of stars: (Jean Pierre Marielle, Guy Bedos, Victoria Abril,

Hubert Felix Thiéfaine, Jean Claude Carrière…)

First recording with Francis Cabrel (Roses and brambles)

Creation of a duet with Jean Rochefort

Concert with an accordion (!) At the Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris

First ascent of a 7000m without oxygen (Le Mustagh-Ata 7546m)

He plays the accordion while flying over the audience. (World premiere) - show

monumental “Chromatic flight”

He travels all over the world.

A room that bears his name is inaugurated in Ingré (45)

Writing of his first Opera “Aria”

He creates an annual event in Orléans: "La fête des Duits - artistic refreshments"

Order of a show at the Paris Opera.

A street named after him is inaugurated in Junas (30)