Geoffroy de Masure

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Geoffroy de Masure (Aarhus Jazz Festival 2017)

Geoffroy de Masure (* 1969 ) is a French jazz musician ( trombone , composition ).

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De Masure began playing the trombone and piano at the age of fourteen. From 1985 to 1989 he studied classical trombone with Bernard Buffet and jazz with André Jaume at the Avignon Conservatory . At the age of 18 he began to play professionally in rock and funk bands and got his first jazz engagements with his own bands. In 1989 he toured Germany for eight months with Harald Juhnke and Georg Preuße .

For further studies he moved to New York in 1990, where he took lessons from Robin Eubanks ; He also participated in the jazz program of the Canadian Banff Center for the Arts . Back in France in 1991 he played in Manu Pekar's medium band , which later recorded with Dave Liebman , and began writing compositions for his own band, Quadrature . Denis Badault brought him for three years as a member of the French Orchester National de Jazz , with which he released three albums by 1994. He performed at festivals a. a. with Joe Lovano , Charlie Haden , Lee Konitz , Greg Osby , Albert Mangelsdorff , Fred Hersch and Nguyên Lê .

De Masure was involved in intercultural projects with traditional music from Cambodia (with Jean-Marc Padovani ), India (with Aka Moon ) and Morocco ( Laurent Blondiau Al Majima ); he traveled to Turkmenistan several times to work with his band Tribu and local traditional musicians. He can be heard on albums by Jean-Marc Padovani, Steve Coleman , Kris Defoort , Simon Kanzler as well as Toufic Farroukh and Aka Moon.

De Masure taught a. a. at the École Nationale de Musique de Bobigny and gave numerous workshops in Belgium and France as well as at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In the 2014 summer semester he was appointed professor in the trombone department at the Jazz Institute Berlin , where he had been a guest lecturer and then a visiting professor since the 2012 summer semester ; he also teaches at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

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  1. ↑ Geoffroy de Masure appointed professor at the Jazz Institute Berlin
  2. ^ Lecturer for jazz trombone
personal data
SURNAME Masure, Geoffroy de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (trombone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1969