Fiona Monbet

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Fiona Monbet (Oslo 2017)

Fiona Monbet (born September 25, 1989 in the Seine-et-Marne department ) is a French-Irish jazz violinist .

Live and act

Monbet, who has a French father and an Irish mother, received classical violin lessons from the age of eight. At the age of ten, at a Didier Lockwood concert , she became enthusiastic about jazz , and then took lessons at the Center de musiques Didier Lockwood in Dammarie-lès-Lys . In 2005, 2006 and 2007 she was awarded the Prix Jeune talent of the SACEM . Monbet studied since 2008 at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Alexis Galpérine.

In 2008 Monbet founded her own quartet with Armel Dupas (p), Ronan Courty (b) and Mathieu Penot (dr), with whom she received scholarships from the Talents du Fonds d'Action of the SACEM and with her quartet the first prize at the Trophées du Sunside won. In a duo with pianist Romain Louveau, she won the Piano Chamber Music Award in 2014 at the International Summer Academy competition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . She also wrote most of the compositions for her debut album O'Ceol (2013). Her album Contrebande (Crescendo) followed in 2018 .

From 2008 onwards, supported by Lockwood, she appeared at festivals or at club concerts with musicians such as Christian Escoudé , Philip Catherine , Jean-Philippe Viret , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Marcel Azzola , Jean-Marie Ecay, Jean-Marc Jafet, Baptiste Trotignon , André Ceccarelli , Thomas Dutronc, Alain Jean-Marie , Boulou and Elios Ferré . In 2016 she replaced Thomas Gould in the Man Overboard Quintet . In addition to Biréli Lagrène and Stochelo Rosenberg , she took part in the Django Drom tour since 2010 and also appeared in Tony Gatlif's documentary Indignados (2012). She also appeared as a violinist in the feature film Chant d'hiver .

Discographic notes

  • Maxime Le Forestier : Paraître ou ne pas être (Polydor 2019)
  • O'Ceol (Just Looking / Harmonia Mundi 2013)
  • Isabel Sörling : Something Came with the Sun (Mister Productions 2013)
  • Didier Lockwood: For Stéphane (Harmonia Mundi 2008)
  • Christian Escoudé: Au Bois de mon Cœur: Christian Escoudé joue Brassens ( Emarcy 2011)

Web links

Commons : Fiona Monbet  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Fiona Monbet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ↑ JC: Fiona Monbet, violon prodige. In: La Dépêche du Midi. August 9, 2007, accessed January 26, 2017 (French).
  3. ^ Benjamin Chapon: Fiona Monbet: "J'ai l'impression d'être la seule à être morte de trac". (No longer available online.) In: 20minutes.fr. August 10, 2007, archived from the original on January 3, 2012 ; Retrieved January 26, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ a b Fiona Monbet to replace Thomas Gould in The Man Overboard Quintet
  5. ↑ Brief information about the Fiona Monbet Quartet
  6. ↑ Les Trophées du Sunside. September 12, 2010, accessed January 26, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ Indignados (Berlin Film Review)
  8. ↑ Fiona Monbet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Monbet, Fiona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Irish jazz violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Seine-et-Marne