Cédric Hanriot is a pianist, composer, arranger, and music producer. A winner of prestigious international awards, Hanriot is known worldwide for his collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Terri Lyne Carrington, Robert Glasper, Donny McCaslin, among other major names in the international jazz scene.

Cédric Hanriot performed as pianist and sound designer on Dianne Reeves’s album Beautiful Life, which won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2015.

Curious and drawn to surprising blends, Cédric Hanriot seeks to consider and approach fusion in a distinctive way. In his creations, he draws inspiration from great classical composers (Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, Frédéric Chopin), as well as from electronic music, hip-hop (Common, Kendrick Lamar), neo-soul (D'Angelo, Erykah Badu), and pop, bringing them together with his deeply jazz-oriented identity (Bud Powell, Erroll Garner, George Duke, Brad Mehldau).

In 2022, Hanriot released his latest album, Time Is Color, on his own label, Morphosis Arts, founded in 2019. Time Is Color is a singular work, a powerful blend of jazz, hip-hop, and urban music. The enthusiastic reception of the album by audiences as well as by the press testifies to the strength of Hanriot’s sonic vision. The recording received numerous outstanding reviews (Le Monde, Blues & Soul Magazine, The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum, among others), was awarded the CHOC distinction by Jazz Magazine, received five stars from BBC Music Magazine, and was ranked among the ten best albums of 2022 by the British magazine MOJO.

Cédric Hanriot is an inventive artist, driven by a rich and expressive inner world that reveals itself through a rare and precious combination of strength and finesse.