Marc Perrenoud

Marc Perrenoud (* 1981 in Berlin ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Perrenoud, who grew up in Geneva, began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical piano at the Geneva Conservatory until 2001; In 2004 he received his jazz diploma from the Lausanne Jazz School with Yannick Délez; he also studied with Eric Watson in Paris.

He initially presented himself as a duo with the French drummer Sylvain Ghio and in 2006 presented his first album Stream Out . Since 2008 he has mainly worked with his trio (with Cyril Régamey and Marco Müller ), with whom he has given more than 300 concerts worldwide and released four albums. In 2015 he recorded an album for solo piano, Hamra . He can also be heard on Phat albums and with the Rosa Luxemburg New Quintet .

Perrenoud should not be confused with the sociologist of the same name, who also works as a jazz musician (double bass).

Prizes and awards

In 2006 Perrenoud won the Patio Prize and the Prize for Best Soloist at the Bern Festival, after which he had already received the Montreux Jazz Chrysler Award in 2003 and the Friedlwald Scholarship in Zurich in 2005. In 2010 he and his trio received the ZKB Jazz Prize . His album Vestry Lamento was particularly recommended by the publisher of Down Beat in January 2014 .

Discographic notes

• Marc Perrenoud, Sylvain Ghio Stream Out ( Altrisuoni 2006)
• Logo (Neuklang 2008, with Marco Müller, Cyril Regamey)
• Two Lost Churches ( Double Moon Records 2011, with Marco Müller, Cyril Regamey)
• Vestry Lamento (Challenge / Double Moon 2013, with Marco Müller, Cyril Regamey)
• Hamra ( Unit Records 2015, solo)
• Nature Boy (Double Moon Records 2016, with Marco Müller, Cyril Regamey)
• Morphée (Neuklang 2020, with Marco Müller, Cyril Regamey)

Web links

• Web presence
• Marc Perrenoud at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait (radioswissjazz)
2. ^ Matt Cibula Marc Perrenoud / Sylvain Ghio: Stream Out (2006) . All about jazz .