Raymond Guiot

Raymond Guiot (born 5 October 1930) is a French flautist, pianist and composer.

He has also trained many flutists throughout the world.

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, 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 conductors Fernand 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.

He then started to work a lot for the Parisian recording studios.

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.

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.

His compositions are based on classical forms and borrow certain elements from jazz.

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.

Guiot participated as a musician, he did not compose the music.