Matt

Composer & guitarist of the band Elvaron, Matthieu Morand begins the guitar at the age of 13 and follows the lessons of many guitar teachers. In 1992, he creates Night Feast, a French rock'n'roll band, with friends of college then in 1993, he creates Elvaron with the bass player Julien Skorka and the drummer Rodolphe Gagnepain. In 1995, Matthieu is allowed to follow the professional programme of the Centre Musical et Créatif de Nancy (current Music Academy International). Graduate in 1996, he enters, this same year, at the conservatoire national de region of Nancy to learn classical guitar and follows the courses of Dominique Eder during five years. Being also a singer, he follows the lessons of Elena Vassilieva then of Aniella Zins during two years.

Since 1998, he is drummer of the MoXid band which recorded a first demo tape "Behind the myth" and is about to release a first album. From september 2000 to may 2001 he's the guitarist of the french band L'Ultima (one demo CD : Des Mots). In 2003 he creates Akroma with Alain Germonville [Darwin's Theory, Ex-Scarve], Symphonic Black Metal project gathering many musicians from the French metal scene. Since the end of 2005, he works with his friends Julien Skorka [Bowels of suffering, Bodyscape, Elvaron] and Ludovic Lehoulle [Hateful, Bodyscape, L'Ultima] of the band Louka to record a rock album.

In addition to his musicology's Masters, Matthieu is holder of a Design Management Master. His university researches led him to work on the sound design influence in the human behaviour and on musical solutions for brands. His researches also went on the influence of the traditional composing in metal. Indeed, because of the duality of his formation to the classical music and to the modern music, this combination of writing styles was done naturally in Elvaron. Aware of the negative image of metal in France, Matthieu tries to talk a maximum on this subject. His musicological formation gives some credibility to his words. He talked on this subject in 2004 during the European universities of the practices and musical knowledge.

MATTHIEU MORAND, Guitars & vocals