Pierre BADEL took up music at the "Ecole Nationale" in Saint-Etienne then went on to study at the "Conservatoire Européen de Musique" in Paris with Pierre THIBAUD.Now with qualifications from several conservatories this musician plays regularly with various French symphony orchestras such as the: Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Orchestre Colonne, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre Les Siècles, Orchestre Symphonique Européen, Orchestre Philharmonique d’Europe, Opéra de Massy, Orchestre Symphonique de Tours, Ensemble Orchestral de Normandie, Nouvel Orchestre de L’Opéra de Saint Etienne…
He has been a guest principal trumpet player in prestigious foreign orchestras: English Chamber Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, International Mahler orchestra, l'Opéra Royal de Flandres, Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra, Philarmonia Sudecka de Walbrych, like trumpet utility with the Bayerische Staatsoper/Bayerisches Staatsorchester München , under the direction of such great conducters as: Kent NAGANO, Christoph ESCHENBACH, Placido DOMINGO, Yutaka SADO, James JUDD, Eric STERN, François-Xavier ROTH, Tibor VARGA, John NEIL AXELROD, Walter HAUPT, David GARFORTH, Peter CSABA, Laurent PETITGIRARD, David WROE, Antonello ALLEMANDI, Frédéric CHASLIN, Wolfgang DOERNER, Félix CARRASCO, Alain GUINGAL, Koen KESSELS …
And has accompanied famous soloists like: Maxim VENGEROV, Evgeny KISSIN, Gidon KREMER, Yuri BASHMET, Guy BRAUNSTEIN, Nemanja RADULOVIC, Nikolai LUGANSKI, Alexandru TOMESCU, Tatiana NICOLAEVA, Aldo CICCOLINI, Maurice ANDRE, Alexandre LAGOYA, Valery et Igor OISTRAKH, Hélène GRIMAUD, Gary HOFFMAN, Placido DOMINGO… In prestigious venues like the Berlin Philharmonie, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Cité de la Musique, Radio France, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Opéra royal de Versailles, Schola Cantorum de Paris, Coliseu do Porto, Pavilhao Atlantico de Lisboa, Téatro Nacional de San Carlos de Lisboa, Téatro Massimo Bellini Catania, Cairo Opéra, Xinchai concert hall de Guangzhou…
All over the world (Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Eire, Canada, Taiwan, Italy, Sicily, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, China,Egypte…).
He also plays as principal trumpet in large-scale musicals such as Gershwin's "PORGY and BESS" under the American conducter Eric Stern (Emmy Award 1996) then in Carl Orff's monumental opera "CARMINA BURANA" conducted by Walter Haupt has played the STAR WARS by John Williams credit titles at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, has worked in the musicals "Concha Bonita" of Alfredo Arias (Molière 2002), music by Nicolas Piovani (Oscar 1999) to the "Théâtre National de Chaillot" (Paris) and worked for the film FANFAN LA TULIPE (E.DEBRAUX) with Vincent Perez and Pénélope Cruz, Europacorp ( Luc BESSON Production).
Pierre BADEL has taken part in numerous television broadcasts in France and abroad on TF1, France 2, France 3, Muzzik, Mezzo, TV5, RAI and RTP with the Metropolitan Orchestra, l'Orchestre Symphonique d'Européen,Opéra de Massy, l'Orchestre Philharmonique d’Europe… And took part in the recording of the tune of "Cinestar" for the satellite channel TPS and has made a “Leonard Bernstein” recording (Warner Music) with " L'Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux " conducted by Yutako SADO ( Leonard Bernstein's assistant and Seiji Osawa’s assistant).
He conducts now master classes in France, in Europe, in the north America, in the south America, in the Indian Ocean and Asia- the), Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra "Academy of Lisbon National Superior Orchestra with Pierre THIBAUD and the University of Nanning (China), the "Taoyuan Symphonic Band" (Taiwan), the "Portuguese’s Trumpeters association", College of Tsyr-wen (Taiwan), College of Pyng-Jenw (Taiwan).
He has presented his best students in the television programmes 'l'Ecole des Fans" on France 2, Dan Shilon Live" and " Toush Toush" with Yael Bar-Zohar on the Israelian channel 2.
The famous composer Jean-Michel Damase (1st grand prix de Rome 1947) dedicated the piece "Arlequin" for trumpet and piano to Pierre.
He is selected to occupy the post of Brass Teacher Performer at the Barenboim Said Foundation in Berlin (2007).
