Member of Ensemble Musikfabrik since 2015, Florentin Ginot lives and works in Paris and Cologne. After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, he became a Laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation and Mécénat Musical Société Générale. His first solo album, Bach - Biber, was released in 2022 (NoMadMusic).
By collaborating closely with composers such as Georges Aperghis, György Kurtág, Rebecca Saunders or Helmut Lachenmann, he initiates a new solo repertoire for his instrument. His program Not Here presented a series of premieres in 2018 at the Cologne Philharmonie, Manifeste Festival-Ircam and the Biennale di Venezia.
In 2017 he founded HowNow, a company developing innovative artistic forms based on modern music into scenic forms, alongside contemporary dance, theatre and circus. The same year, the choreographer Yoann Bourgeois commissioned him the musical conception for La Mécanique de l’Histoire, presented at the Panthéon as part of the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris’s season. Premiered at Festival Présences-Radio France the same year, his piece 26 Chaises gathered interviews with German, French, English, American and Dutch artists.
Since 2019, he initiates collaborations with artists such as Helge Sten (aka Deathprod, Norway), Valérie Dréville, Stefan Prins (Belgium/Germany), Kamilya Jubran (Palestine/France) to create hybrid projects : Instantanés vol. 1 : Folia (2020) and vol.2 : Sibylle (2022), Situations (2020), Zig Bang (2022), Dead trees give no shelter (2022).
His musical research involves hybrid setups combining modular analogue synthesizers with traditional instruments. The design of lighting and the relationship with space are an integral part of his musical compositions.
He has performed as soloist in festivals and venues such as the Berliner Philharmonie, Cologne Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique-Paris, Festival Présences-Radio France, Festival Musica, l’Auditori, Berliner Festspiele, Manifeste Festival-Ircam, Sacrum Profanum-Cracow, Ultima-Oslo, la Biennale di Venezia…
In 2020, he was awarded "Music revelation of the year" by the Arts Journalists Syndicate.
HowNow is an artistic company, designing shows and scenic concerts, alongside dance, theater and circus. HowNow was founded by Florentin Ginot in 2017.
When posed the question: "What could a Musikfabrik be?", a clever primary school child answered: "That is where they create music that hasn’t been made yet". That basically sums up everything in a nutshell.