Guiot entered the Conservatoire de Roubaix at the age of 7, pushed by a father in love with classical music. In 1947, after two years in Marcel Moyse's class,[2] he won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris. A few months later, he joined the Opéra de Lille as piccolo under the direction of conductorsFernand Oubradous and Georges Prêtre. There he learned his trade for three consecutive years, playing many operas, operettas and lyrical comedies.
He then taught flute at the École nationale de musique de Calais from 1950 to 1956. It was at this time that he prepared - alone - the Geneva competition, of which he won the first prize in 1954.
In 1956, the French Republican Guard Band of Paris gave him the opportunity to leave Calais.[3] He then started to work a lot for the Parisian recording studios.[4]
First flute at the Opéra de Paris from 1962 to 1991, he also became assistant to Alain Marion at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1977.
Compositions
His compositions are based on classical forms and borrow certain elements from jazz.
Discography
Albums
These albums were mostly made for music illustration labels; they are not albums in the traditional sense of the term, i.e. records sold commercially and distributed in the media. See production music.
1965: Raymond Guiot - Bach Street
1965: Raymond Guiot - Haendel with care
1966: Raymond Guiot and his orchestra - Boum Bomo
1968: Raymond Guiot - Scarlatti Sounds, (LP) Tele Music [fr] TM 3000
1970: Raymond Guiot - Jazz Baroque Quintet, (LP) Tele Music TM 3003
1971: Raymond Guiot plays Domenico Scarlatti
1972: Raymond Guiot - Néo-Classiques, (LP) Tele Music TM 3025
1973: Raymond Guiot - Jazz Panorama, (LP) Tele Music TM 3031
1974: Raymond Guiot - Instruments à vents, vol. 2, (LP) Tele Music TM 3036
1974: Raymond Guiot - Flûtes & Harpes, (LP) Tele Music TM 3039
1975: Raymond Guiot - Indicatifs, (LP) Tele Music TM 3042
1975: Raymond Guiot - Flûtes & Guitares, (LP) Tele Music 3054
1976: Raymond Guiot - Basse contre Basse, (LP) Tele Music TM 3059
1978: Raymond Guiot - Baronne baroque
197?: Raymond Guiot - I like Johann Sebastien
1983: Raymond Guiot - Néo-Classiques, vol. 2, (LP) Tele Music TM 3088
1985: Raymond Guiot - Air Generation, (LP) Tele Music 3101
In collaboration
With Guy Pedersen
1970: Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Indian pop bass, (LP) Tele Music TM 709
1970: Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Contrebasses, (LP) Tele Music TM 3014
1971: Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Musique en Vrac, (LP) Tele Music TM 3017
Others
1970: Raymond Guiot & Maurice Plessac - Flute & Hapsichord, (LP) Tele Music TM 3011
1971: Raymond Guiot & R. Auteloup - Instruments à vent, vol.1, (LP) Tele Music TM 3020
1973: Raymond Guiot & Pierre Bachelet - Pianos romantiques, (LP) Tele Music TM 3024
1988: Raymond Guiot & Alain Marion - Golden Flute Club
Original Film Scores
Guiot participated as a musician, he did not compose the music.
A very important part of Raymond Guiot's musical activity consisted of recording for the French music world in the 1960s and 1970s, but the musicians were then only rarely credited.
Albums as "Sideman"
1960: André Hodeir - Jazz & Jazz
1962: Elek Bacsik - Bossa Nova (EP)
1969: Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell, volume 2
1970: Claude Ciari and The Batucada Seven
1971: Baden Powell
1973: Maxime Saury - Blue and Sentimental
1977: Baden Powell Canta Vinicus de Moraes e Paolo Cesar Pinheiro
1982 : April orchestra - Duty Free, (LP) APR 45
198? : April Orchestra - Mélodies de Cour
Compositions by Raymond Guiot on CD
Sandrine François - Bluesy Prelude, (Hybrid Music, 2008)
Flautissimo vol.29, Hommage à Raymond Guiot
References
^This biography is essentially based on the interview Raymond Guiot gave to Traversières Magazine. (No 72, September 2002).
^The meeting with the famous teacher was decisive: on the one hand Moyse remedied the still insufficient digital technique of the young flautist and, on the other hand, he offered him precious working methods.
^At the end of the Second World War, more than half of the city of Calais was destroyed.
^Throughout his career as a studio musician, Guiot participated in three daily recording sessions!