Pierre Chépélov holds five awards from the Paris C.N.S.M. (in writing, orchestration and analysis), and has also studied choral conducting, basso continuo and early music in general. His catalog includes numerous opuses, including several public and private commissions, with a predilection for voice and choir. In 2012, his Bestiaire Fantasque won the European Choral Award from ECA / Europa Cantat, while O Lord, thou hast persuaded me, for mixed choir a cappella, was awarded the Prize for a new work at the Florilège vocal de Tours in 2013.

Several of his creative projects are centered on educational activities: in 2017, for example, he created Malek et Zarafa, conte musical (with Marie-Laure Garnier, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and two secondary schools in the Paris 19th arrondissement, dir. Yohann Recoules) and the cantata Je reviens de l’enfer (with Esther Labourdette and the orchestral ensemble Les Tempéraments, dir. Yohann Recoules).
Some of his creations have been inspired by the world of early music, such as O tu qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas, commissioned by the medievalist ensemble Discantus (dir. Brigitte Lesne) for a program of 11th-century polyphony (2011 – CD Æon 2014), and the cantata Actus Tragicus, conceived as a mirror image of Bach’s and using the same instrumentarium (2017, Ensemble Apostroph’, dir. France de La Hamelinaye).
In 2018, he is composer-in-residence at the Autour du Ventoux festival.
Pierre Chépélov is also an organist, and teaches Écriture as well as Formation musicale at the Conservatoire du 13ème arrondissement as well as at the CRR de Paris; he is the author, with Benoît Menut, of two collections of pedagogical works published by Editions Henry Lemoine, La dictée en musique and L’ouverture à la musique, which received the Prix de l’Enseignement musical 2015 from the CEMF.

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