Alain Roche is a Swiss pianist, composer, and performer. After two decades dedicated to musical creation for dance and theatre, he now focuses on his own solo piano compositions.

The notion of transformation is at the core of his artistic research and creations.

Much like the blue hour of the morning that transitions from night to day, Alain Roche is fascinated by natural transformations. Over the years, these have become a major source of inspiration for his compositional work. He chooses these suspended moments, where everything changes every second, to connect with his audience.

Through unique artistic propositions, whether outdoors with his piano in the air for the unusual project PIANO VERTICAL or indoors with BLUE HOUR, an acoustic concert on the ground, he offers a space-time of total immersion.

During the 2023-2024 season, he is performing a unique musical feat in the world: from the winter solstice to the summer solstice, he plays for 182 consecutive mornings, at dawn during the blue hour, suspended at his vertical piano, inviting more than 15,000 people to look up at the sky and contemplate a beauty renewed each day.

Alain is invited in August 2024 to the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, where he performs Gabriel Fauré’s “Hymne à Apollon,” rearranged by Victor Le Masne, while suspended in the air with his Vertical Piano at the heart of Stade de France. In front of 80,000 spectators and several hundred million television viewers, he performs a duet with tenor Benjamin Bernheim, dressed by designer Kevin Germanier and directed by Thomas Jolly.

In parallel with his solo work, Alain Roche is currently creating REQUIEM FOR A DEAD SUN, a musical work for two pianos, three percussionists, a large choir of one hundred singers, and two vocal soloists. The piece explores transformation, impermanence, and the life cycle of a star as a metaphor for our own finite condition. The Swiss premiere will take place in autumn 2026, followed by an international tour beginning in 2027.