Hélène Breschand

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Hélène Breschand, 2017
Hélène Breschand at Club W71 , 2019

Hélène Breschand (born March 18, 1966 in Paris ) is a French harpist , singer and composer . Breschand leads a career both as a solo artist and as an ensemble player. She interprets written new music just as she works as an improvisation musician .

Live and act

Born in Paris into a family of artists, she played the recorder when she was seven. She began to learn the harp from Martine Géliot before continuing her training with Brigitte Sylvestre . In the 1970s she discovered free jazz and the possibilities of extended play alongside new music . Sylvestre introduced her to the practices of contemporary musical theater and new music. Breschand completed her studies at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris, where she received the Médaille d'or and the Prix ​​d'Excellence as well as the prize for the best analysis with Christian Acaoui.

Breschand has participated as an interpreter in the performance of works by Luciano Berio , Bernard Cavanna , Pascal Dusapin , Emmanuel Núnes and François Sarhan . She regularly plays the contemporary repertoire of Georges Aperghis , John Cage , Mauricio Kagel , Luc Ferrari , Jacques Rebotier , Georgia Spiropoulos , Yoshihisa Taira , Kasper Toeplitz , Tôn-Thât Tîet and David Toop .

Breschand began playing improvised music through Didier Petit , with whom she played regularly while working in Denis Colin's ensemble . She had a trio with Didier Petit and Sylvain Kassap and a longstanding duo with Jean-François Pauvros. She also worked with jazz and improvisation musicians such as Sophie Agnel , Uriel Barthélémi, Bruno Chevillon , Médéric Collignon , Vincent Courtois , Marc Ducret , Michel Doneda , Michel Godard , Joëlle Léandre , Vincent Lê Quang, Thierry Madiot , Michael Nick, Annick Nozati , Zeena Parkins , Édith Scob , Elliott Sharp , Die Do, Franck Vigroux, Wilfried Wendling and Françoise Kubler .

Breschand is co-founder of the ensemble for contemporary music Laborintus with Sylvain Kassap and Franck Masquelier. She also belonged to the Topophonie Ensemble. In 2001 she brought Jean-Marc Montera to his Ensemble d'Improvisateurs Européens, where she worked with Chris Cutler and Thomas Lehn and interpreted, among others, Treatise by Cornelius Cardew . With Elliott Sharp, she released the album Chansons du Crépuscule in 2017 . Breschand and Sharp also went on tour with this program.

Breschand has composed several pieces for solo harp. As a composer, Breschand has developed a semi-graphic style of composition that leaves room for improvisation. She wrote the music for the film "le voile brûlé" by Viviane Candas and new film music for the silent films "Jeanne d'Arc" by Carl Theodor Dreyer and "Salomé" by Charles Bryan . She has also contributed composed music for experimental cinema.

Together with Laurence Bancaud, Aurélie Barbé and Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu, she wrote the book La Harpe aux XXème et XXIème Siècles , which was published by Minerve Editions in 2012.

Discographic notes

  • Les Incarnés (D'Autres Cordes)
  • Hélène Breschand / Michel Doneda / Gérald Zbinden L'Intense
  • Pierre Favre Fleuve (ECM 2003)
  • Le Gout du Sel , solo (D'Autres Cordes, 2006)
  • Hélène Breschand / Jean-François Pauvros Sombre (Victo 2005)
  • Hélène Breschand & Sylvain Kassap Double-peine (D'Autres Cordes 2010)
  • Les Incarnés (D'Autres Cordes, 2014)
  • joue Berio, Breschand, Cage, Taïra, Tiêt (2015)
  • Hélène Breschand & Elliott Sharp Chansons du Crépuscule (2017)

Web links

Commons : Hélène Breschand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b artisan nato: Hélène Breschand ( fr )
  2. ↑ Atelier du Plateau . Archived from the original on July 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Woodbrass .
  4. ^ Misterioso .
  5. ↑ Hélène Breschand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Breschand, Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French harpist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris