is a piper from the traditional Breton music practice. In 1996, he was part of the Ronsed Mor Bagad ensemble, who came to record with La Marmite Infernale, the big band of the jazz collective ARFI based in Lyon, and this collaboration set Erwan’s improvisation practice in motion. He performs in duo with his brother Guénolé on the bombard, playing dance music at fest-noz (traditional Breton night parties). He is also a composer and improviser for the Urban Pipes project, and recorded his first solo album in 2007. The second Urban Pipes album (2011) features solos as well as duos with Beñat Achiary and Guénolé Keravec. He also plays contemporary music for bagpipe, commissioning works notably with Bernard Cavanna, Philippe Leroux, François Rossé, Benjamin de la Fuente, and Susumu Yoshida. Other composers who wrote for Keravec include Sébastien Béranger, Xavier Garcia, and Zad Moultaka. Erwan Keravec is associate artist with the Centre de Création Musicale of the Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper, Brittany.
As an improviser, he cooperates with Beñat Achiary, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, François Rossé, Baron Samedi (ARFI), NØZEF. In 2000, he cofounded the Niou Bardophones quartet, featuring an unusual line-up: bombard, bagpipes, baritone sax, and drums. He is also active in the domain of contemporary dance, writing and performing music for various choreographies: Boris Charmatz’ Enfants, created at the Avignon Festival (2011); Gaëlle Bourges’s Marin acéphale, Cécile Borne’s Robes fanées, Bloody Girl by Karell Prugnaud and Eugène Durif, and Homthétie 949 by Groupe Raoul Batz. He improvises with dancers such as Boris Charmatz and Daniel Linehan.
Erwan Kerawec also plays the trumpet, yet replacing the mouthpiece with a pipe reed.