Biography

• Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD)
• Keyboardist for Lilly Wood and the Prick
• Solo piano album “Grapes” (2020)
• Teacher at the Redon Agglomération conservatoire

Born in 1981, Augustin d'Assignies began playing the piano at the age of 7, learning the art of gesture and a taste for sound before any theory. His thirst for knowledge took him from the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD) to municipal conservatories and the American School, earning diplomas in jazz, writing, acoustics, orchestration, harmony, Indian music and ethnomusicology.

He then toured as keyboardist with Lilly Wood and the Prick, performing in legendary venues and festivals: the Zénith in Paris, Irving Plaza in New York, the Eurockéennes de Belfort, Sydney… He has also played alongside Zaz and Ayo.

His first solo piano album, “Grapes”, was released in December 2020: baroque-inspired figures meet contemporary polyrhythms in a dreamy sound world that owes much to Debussy. From Bach to Bacchus, music and wine are closely linked for him: a winemaker since 2013, he produces author wines and created the Dégustations Déconcertantes, concert-lectures where a Bach prelude answers an appellation wine.

Based in the Redon area of Brittany, he has taught piano, harmony and composition at the local conservatoire since 2022. There he wrote Europe, premiered in 2025 by the Concordance orchestra, and met Louise Bouedo, with whom he founded Dua Corda. He now plays the Keybird, a piano he also explores as a researcher through the electromagnetic excitation of strings.