BACKING VOCALS + SINGING

Didier Rochard is a backing vocalist, session singer, choral singer and folk singer with over 15 years of experience. Didier has worked with some of the biggest artists and ensembles in the world, with multiple appearances on TV, radio and at major festivals, as well as prestigious studios including Abbey Road.

Didier Rochard (right), with LCV Co-Founder Anil Sebastian (left)

Backing vocals for U2, Live from Abbey Road, BBC One

BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with The Heritage Orchestra

BBC 2 Later with Jools Holland with Alt-J

11 Tracks on this Grammy nominated soundtrack

Numerous in-store performances for Burberry

Laura Mvula's Abbey Road orchestral album with Metropole Orkest

Recording with Joss Stone for Nitin Sawhney's album Dystopian Dream

With Andy Serkis at Gollum as Theresa May! Barbican

BBC Proms on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music

Folk recording with Stu Larsen for the Mahogany Sessions (130,000 views)

BBC’s The One Show with Tom Chaplin (Keane)

With Sam Smith, Wilderness Festival Main Stage

With Newton Faulkner, Union Chapel

Wilderness Festival Atrium Stage with The Wilderness Orchestra

With Charlotte Church, live gig and documentary BBC One

With Basement Jaxx at the O2 Arena

Harrods Christmas Lights Switch On, with Burberry

iTunes Festival with Luke Sital-Singh, supporting Robert Plant (The Roundhouse)

In The Woods Festival Headline with The Invisible and guests

ACF Gala Dinner, LSO St Luke's

Backing vocals for Mt. Wolf, Heaven

With Alt-J Reading Festival

With Amber Run, Mahogany Sessions (5.8 million views)

Didier Rochard at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Virgin Radio (Edith Bowman show)

BBC Proms with Jarvis Cocker, John Grant, Richard Hawley and Susanne Sundfor

BBC Radio London

With Charlotte Church, BBC Wales

Headphone Sessions with Sam Brookes

Andy Burrows (Razorlight) recording of Light The Night

Institute of Contemporary Arts

With Deaf Havana for Brit Awards and Warchild at Union Chapel

Virgin Radio live Christmas special

With Imogen Heap at Union Chapel (multiple other projects)

Excel Centre with London Contemporary Voices

With Imogen Heap for Reverb Festival (The Roundhouse)

With Deaf Havana and Scott Mills at Reading Festival (Radio 1)

Credits include the following:

Major artists: U2, ABBA, Sam Smith, Alt-J, Joss Stone, Emile Sande, Basement Jaxx, The Staves, Tom Chaplin (Keane), Imogen Heap, Charlotte Church, Deaf Havana, Elena Tonra (Daughter), Orlando Weeks (The Maccabees), Nitin Sawhney, Newton Faulkner, Andy Serkis (as Gollum as Theresa May!), Lucy Rose.

BBC Proms with The Heritage Orchestra and Jules Buckley, plus special guests Jarvis Cocker, John Grant, Richard Hawley and Susanne Sundfor.

Recordings: Imogen Heap’s soundtrack to Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Grammy nominated), Laura Mvula’s Abbey Road Orchestral Album Sing To The Moon with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley, Nitin Sawhney and Joss Stone Keep The Light On, Andy Burrows (Razorlight) Light The Night (The Snowman and The Snowdog theme.

TV: BBC One Special Live From Abbey Road with U2, BBC Later with Jools Holland with Alt-J, Channel 4 Mercury Music Prize showcase with Alt-J, BBC The One Show with Tom Chaplin, BBC One Wales with Charlotte Church.

Radio: BBC Radio One Live From Reading with Deaf Havana and Scot Mills, BBC Radio 6 Christmas Eve Special with Marie Ann Hobbs, BBC 6 and BBC 3 Proms, Virgin Radio with Edith Bowman, BBC Radio London.

Singing collaborations with other arts: English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Cirque Bijou (Bestival finale), National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain, Docklands Sinfonia, 12 Ensemble, Stompy’s Playground, London Cello Quartet

Venues: O2 Arena, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Excel Centre, The Roundhouse, LSO St Luke’s, Union Chapel, Natural History Museum, London Film Museum, Kensington Palace, Eltham Palace, Heaven, Koko, Somerset House

Main stages at Bestival, London Pride (Trafalgar Square), Wilderness, iTunes Festival, Standon Calling (festival headline), In The Woods (festival headline), Virgin London Marathon (start line elite runners’ race)

Fashion: Burberry London Fashion Week Show. In-store performances for Harrods, Selfridges, Liberty, Diesel, Boodles diamonds, Pandora, Sassoon (fashion show), Space NK

Other entertainment/event clients: Facebook, Samsung, Evening Standard Progress 1000, TK Maxx

Producers and Musical Directors: Bob Ezrin, John Metcalfe, Cherif Hashizume, Paul Frith, Jonathon Heyward

Other artists: Guy Sigsworth, Eska, Aquilo, Amber Run, Another Sky, Martin Grech, Alex Vargas, Reeps One, Jesca Hoop, Andreya Triana, Eivor, Palace, Irwin Sparkes (The Hoosiers), Clare Maguire, Stu Larsen, Luke Sital-Singh, Shlomo, Manu Delago, Richard Walters, The Invisible, Maya Youssef, Deepa Nair Rasiya, Reece Lyons, Active Child, Phoria, Gwilym Gold and 50+ smaller artists and bands.

Didier has a very large network of contacts across the music industry. He fixes choirs, musicians, backing vocals, bands and ensembles for live gigs, session work, backing vocals, campaigns, carol singers and events.