Claire de Brunner

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Claire de Brunner (also Claire deBrunner , * around 1960) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( bassoon , composition ).

Live and act

Claire de Brunner learned the bassoon at the age of 14. She completed a classical education and soon after received a scholarship to study at the Dalcroze School of Music. She continued her studies at the High School of Music and Art, the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Manhattan School of Music , where she studied with Stephen Maxym. She also played in various orchestras and chamber ensembles. In the 1980s she turned to the avant-garde and downtown scene in New York and was a founding member of the formation 101 Crustaceans , which was in the New York post-punk tradition; Another band was Church of Betty , with which the first recordings were made. In the early 1990s she studied jazz improvisation with Lee Konitz and Connie Crothers ; since then she has worked in the New York free jazz and avant scene a. a. with Daniel Carter , Connie Crothers, Matt Lavelle ( Solidarity , 2014), Ras Moshe , Ed Pastorini, François Grillot , Ratzo Harris and Blaise Siwula . Her main job is as an editor and proofreader in market research.

Discographic notes

  • Clarie DeBrunner, Miki Navazio, Ed Pastorini, Oren Bloedow, Jan Kotik: One Hundred One Crustaceans (Knitting Factory Works, 1991)
  • Macroscopia: Macroscopia (Metier, 2010), with Tom Zlabinger, Claire deBrunner, Ken Silverman, Daniel Carter
  • To Be Continued: Poetry from the Future (Line Art, 2017), with Daniel Carter, Kevin Norton , Carol Liebowitz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 2, 2018)
  2. ↑ Constance Rosenblum: Love Story in Residence. The New York Times , June 10, 2012, accessed February 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Claire de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES deBrunner, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1960