Isabelle Duthoit

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Isabelle Duthoit at the SWR New Jazz Meeting in the Loft (Cologne) 2012
Isabelle Duthoit with Wolter Wierbos (left) at the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2012

Isabelle Duthoit (born December 6, 1970 in Montargis , Département Loiret) is a French jazz and improvisation musician ( clarinet , vocals ) and composer in the field of creative jazz , free improvisational music and contemporary composition music .

Live and act

Duthoit began studying classical music in 1991 at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon with Jacques Di Donato , from which she graduated in 1995. With Donato, she founded the Fruits de Mhère festival for improvisation music in 1994 and composed the theater music le temps du souffle . In the second half of the decade she toured the United States with Donato; she also worked with chamber music interpreters such as Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Raphaël Oleg . She performed several times at the Musique Action festivals in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy , Musique en Scène in Lyon, Romania and the Ukraine. She also worked in the Ensemble Triolid (album Ur Lamento 2002 with Laurent Dailleau ( theremin ) and David Chiesa (bass, percussion)) with Taavi Kerikmäe and with Tim Hodgkinson ( Sketch of Now , 2006).

In 2004 she recorded the album Avenues (Unit) in a duo with the pianist Jacques Demierre . It is clarinettist in Trio Krizda with Christine Wodrascka (piano) and Gunda Gottschalk (Viola), plays in the formation archipelago of Emmanuel Petit and is the founder of the trio Bords de Mhère (with Kristof Guez and Marc Pichelin). In the course of her career she also worked with Johannes Bauer , Camel Zekri , Michel Doneda , Franz Hautzinger and Géraldine Keller . In 2001 she performed with Joëlle Léandre and Marilyn Crispell at the Konfrontationen festival in Nickelsdorf . In Japan she studied the Nō rituals during a stay at Villa Kujoyama in 2008 and performed together with Ryōko Aoki at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2011 . In 2012 she was part of the SWR New Jazz Meeting Member of Carl Ludwig Hübsch Ensemble pretty eight ; she also belongs to his quartet Drift .

The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik characterized Duthoit as part of "a musical movement in France [...] that wants to break the boundaries between new composed and improvised music."

Isabelle Duthoit at the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2012

Discographic notes

Web links

Commons : Isabelle Duthoit  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical date at Offene Ohr eV improvisation music in Munich
  2. ^ New Musical Express
  3. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik Volume 162 (2001), page 4
personal data
SURNAME Duthoit, Isabelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Montargis