Jeff Gauthier

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Jeff Gauthier

Jeff Gauthier (* 1954 ) is an American violinist who works in classical music as well as in the field of modern creative and new improvisational music . He is also active as a music producer.

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Gauthier grew up in Los Angeles , where he first took violin lessons from his aunt. The first musical role models were Jimi Hendrix , the British blues rock trio Cream and Miles Davis ' fusion music. After high school, he studied violin and musicology at the California Institute of Arts .

He began his musical career in the environment of Vinny Golia and the musicians of the California avant-garde scene; later worked on Goli’s album Decennium Dans Axlan (1992). He also worked with John Cale and Yusef Lateef , but also in the field of classical music, such as with the Milwaukee Symphony , the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , the Los Angeles Music Center Opera , the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and the Long Beach Symphony . With the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus he was at Helmuth Rilling with the Grammy 2001 excellent CD with Penderecki's Credo involved. He also worked in the studios on the recordings of many film and television soundtracks, such as the music for the Star Trek series.

After his first own ensemble, the Jeff Gauthier Goatette , he played in 1978 with the bassist Eric Von Essen in the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra , then founded the Ensemble Quartet Music with Von Essen and the twins Alex and Nels Cline , which in their eleven years Recorded four albums. In 1987 he played the ECM album The Lamp and the Star with the Cline brothers, Hank Roberts , Von Essen and Aina Kemanis ; there he also used the viola .

As a producer he was involved in the 1993/95 album Chest and the last album Hold It Under a Faucet 7 by Alex and Nels Cline. From 2003 Gauthier also worked in a quartet with Gregg Bendian , Steuart Liebig and G. E. Stinson ( Bone Structure ). Under his own name, Gauthier recorded the album Internal Memo in 1993 with Von Essen, Alex Cline and keyboardist David Whitham for the Nine Winds label; The Present was created in 1996 , in 2002 he recorded Mask and in 2006 One and the Same on his Cryptogramphone label; In 2008 House of Return appeared on Cryptogramphone .

Gauthier also worked with Devin Sarno , the Norwegian band Ulver ( Blood Inside ) and Steuart Liebig ( KammerStig , 2001).

As a producer, he was involved in founding the avant-garde label Nine Winds and Delos Records in the 1990s . In 1998 he founded the Cryptogramophone sub-label as an imprint. As a producer, he has also worked with Alan Broadbent , Mark Dresser , Peter Erskine , Lou Levy , Jimmy Rowles , Stacy Rowles , Alan Pasqua and Don Preston . He is also responsible for the program of the new music series Inner Ear in Los Angeles.

His own works have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet .

Discographic notes

  • Internal Memo (Nine Winds, 1993)
  • The Present (Nine Winds, 1996)
  • Jeff Gauthier Goatette: Mask (Cryptogramophone, 2002)
  • Jeff Gauthier Goatette: One and the Same (Cryptogramophone, 2006)
  • House of Return (Cryptogramophone, 2008)
  • Open Source (Cryptogramophone, 2011)

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SURNAME Gauthier, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954