One life, several paths. Music as the common thread.

After early training in music theory and piano, Quentin took up the guitar at twelve, and it quickly became his instrument of choice.

His influences range from Queen, The Beatles, Dire Straits and Metallica to French songwriters such as Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Jacques Goldman: a musical culture that pays little attention to genre lines.

During his school years in Paris, he co-founded the pop-rock band SWAN with Nicolas Parpex and Lorenzo Benedetti. As lead guitarist and backing vocalist, he contributed to the band’s English-language repertoire, its recordings and its live shows.

SWAN played Paris venues including Le Bataclan, Le Gibus, Le Divan du Monde and La Scène Bastille, caught the attention of the French music press, and is documented in the Rock Made in France archive.

From 2017 onwards, Quentin focused on his own songwriting, recording first under the name Klent before choosing to continue under his own name. Trained in sound engineering, he writes, composes, plays and works closely on the sound of his recordings.

Writing in both French and English, he combines melodic songwriting with a fascination for language, emotional contradictions and atmospheric arrangements.

Alongside music, Quentin has built a career in architecture and entrepreneurship. He sees these as expressions of one creative instinct: imagining, structuring, experimenting and bringing ideas to life.

With DESIDERATA, Quentin Piepszownik continues under his own name, bringing together the many sides of his work: French songwriting, a pop-rock sense of melody, a love of words and a search for atmosphere.

He also writes for other performers and is open to collaborations in music, film and visual storytelling.