His many students included Philippe Litzler, trumpet soloist of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Clément Saunier,[2] Clément Garrec (academic of the Conservatoire de Paris), Bruno Tomba, Bruno Nouvion,[3] Pierre Gillet, Håkan Hardenberger, Otto Sauter, Piet Knarren [nl], Reinhold Friedrich, Mickael Bridenfeld, Marco Braito,[4] Marc André, Ricardo Chiavetta, Giorgio Baggiani, Matthias Persson.
In addition to his activity as an orchestral musician, not only with the Münchener Bach-Chor, and first trumpeter of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Paris Opéra, but also among others at the Lamoureux and Colonne concerts as well as the French Republican Guard Band, until around 1999, he led a career as an international soloist.
He has teamed up with the organist Philippe Dubeau, who was in charge of the Notre-Dame de Clignancourt church in Paris.
After his retirement from the Paris Conservatory, Pierre Thibaud was appointed professor at the Tokyo College of Music.
Among his many recordings as a soloist is the popular Arsenic Blues, by Marc Lanjean, the main theme of the television series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes.