Jacques Demierre

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Jacques Demierre (born January 4, 1954 in Geneva ) is a Swiss improvisation musician and composer .

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Demierre studied at the University of Geneva , at the Conservatoire Populaire (piano, jazz piano, electro-acoustic music ) and at the Geneva Conservatory (music theory). He gave up the classical piano at an early age and turned to improvisation on the way to avant-garde rock and jazz. As a pianist he played with Dorothea Schürch , Radu Malfatti , Hans Koch , but also with Martial Solal , Han Bennink , Joëlle Léandre , Carlos Zingaro and Ikue Mori . He regularly gives solo concerts and works in a trio with Lucas Niggli and Barry Guy as well as Urs Leimgruber and Barre Phillips . He taught Sylvie Courvoisier , Malcolm Braff and Michel Wintsch .

Demierre also moves as a composer in the border area between jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music; in his compositions he is interested in how to bring the notated and improvised musical tradition together. His Concierto barocco from 1985 is for voice, speaker, three soloists and jazz ensemble. In Exponnoncence , the singer ( Françoise Kubler premiered in 1986 ) sings texts by William Blake , while the piano (himself) and cello ( Alfred Zimmerlin ) improvise over quotations from Olivier Messiaen , Luciano Berio and Bernd Alois Zimmermann as well as other classics of new music ; A second piano ( Irène Schweizer ) is used to improvise freely. In 2003 he wrote 17 for four improvisation musicians (seventeen small pieces that only use words as a starting point for the musicians' improvisations). Demierre works as a freelance journalist for Contrechamps magazine .

Demierre was awarded a Swiss music prize by the Federal Office of Culture in 2018 .

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  1. ↑ Swiss Music Awards 2018
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SURNAME Demierre, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss improvisation musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva