Sébastien Pittet was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1983. He is a bassist, double bassist, guitarist, teacher, composer and active in several cultural associations as a member and organizer, where he lives in Romainmôtier. He began playing bass guitar with a group of friends in 1998, while completing an apprenticeship in horticulture. He then began his musical training at the Ecole de Jazz et de Musique Actuelle de Lausanne, before obtaining a diploma in jazz interpretation from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in 2008. Shortly afterwards, he moved to Montreal for a year, where he played and recorded with a number of bands, and studied music pedagogy at the Université du Québec.
He has studied with bassists such as Alain Caron, Björn Meyer, Jean-Pierre Schaller, Bänz Oester and Pierangelo Crescenzio. His musical encounters and experiences have led him to collaborate with numerous regional and international artists in no fewer than a thousand concerts on tour, at festivals and in clubs in some twenty different countries. He has also taken part in the recording of some twenty discographic productions. In 2020, he began to concentrate on his own compositions, from which emerged the WANU project in 2021 with the release of his first album Nachalo (Altrisuoni, CH), made entirely with his bass and a few electroacoustic effects. Since then, he has produced and co-produced several multidisciplinary creations linked to his compositions and sound universe, which he constantly develops according to his inspirations and artistic encounters.
