Winner of several prizes in international competitions, Sébastien Vachez is currently leading a career as a concertist, composer, arranger and teacher. He is certainly no stranger to the platform of international festivals having performed in many european countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Greece), in South America (Peru) and in Asia (Hong Kong).
As a teacher, he frequently appears in master-classes and workshops.
Sébastien has also recorded seven CD (“Comme une Saudade”, “Cuba Libre”, “Couleurs Tango”, “Brésils”, “Valsez sur moi”, “Chamber Music” and “Hommage à Manos Hadjidakis”) and his own works are regularly published by Doberman – Yppan (Canada), d’Oz (Canada) and Henri Lemoine (Paris).
His compositions are played and recorded by the greatest musicians from all over the world such as Shin-Ichi Fukuda (Japan), Thibault Cauvin, Olivier Pelmoine (France), Boris Gaquere (Belgium), Dimitris Dekavallas (Greece), Kevin Manderville (USA), Matthew McAllister (Scotland), Sébastien Deshaies, Isabelle Héroux (Canada), etc.
More recently, he started a collaboration with the french pianist and composer Daniel Goyone to make some arrangements of his music for one or two guitars. Goyone is one of the finest jazz musician in France, having played with Chick Corea as well as the singer and songwriter Claude Nougaro.