Igor Gehenot

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Igor Gehenot

Igor Gehenot (born November 27, 1989 in Liège ) is a Belgian jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Gehenot began playing the piano at the age of six; he initially received a classical music education. At the age of 13 he started in the jazz department of the Marcel Desiron Academy in his hometown, where he received lessons for four years. At the age of 17 he met the drummer Antoine Pierre and founded the Metropolitan Quartet , with which he gave numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad and won the Young Talent Award at the Comblain Jazz Festival . He studied jazz piano at the conservatories of Maastricht and (from 2009) in Brussels, where he formed his first trio with Sam Gerstmans on double bass and the young drummer Antoine Pierre. From 2011 he played regularly in the Brussels jazz clubs The Sounds and Archiduc. His first album was released in 2012 (with the trio). The album received good reviews and was voted Jazz Album of the Year by British magazine Jazzwise . With the seven-member Lg Collective he performed at various festivals (Liège Music Festival, Dinant Jazz Nights and Jazzzolder in Mechelenn). He and his trio presented themselves at several Belgian festivals such as the Brussel Jazz Marathon, the Blue Flamingo Festival, the Gent Jazz Festival , the Škoda Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne and the Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival in Haiti.

In 2014 he worked with the Polish string quartet Atom String Quartet at the Gaume Jazz Festival and recorded his second album Motion in a trio with Philippe Aerts and Teun Verbruggen . After excursions into hip-hop , the album Delta was released in 2017 with an acoustic quartet. He also plays in a duo with Nicolas Kummert and can be heard on Jack van Poll's album The Composer .

Discographic notes

  • Road Story ( Igloo Records 2012)
  • Motion Igloo Records 2014
  • Delta (Igloo Records 2017), with Alex Tassel, Viktor Nyberg, Jérôme Klein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography (Igloo)
  2. ↑ Review by Jean-Marie Hacquier: Jazz Hot n ° 666, hiver 2013-2014
  3. ↑ meeting
  4. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Gehenot, Igor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege