Pierre Audétat

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Pierre Audétat (born June 8, 1968 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss fusion and jazz musician ( keyboards , composition ) who has also emerged as a remixer .

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Audétat began taking classical piano lessons at the age of six; at the age of eleven he changed genre and took jazz lessons. After training at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and the École de Jazz et de Musique Actuelle de Lausanne , he formed the group Urgent Feel in 1988 , which ventured into electro jazz and released the album XL on Plainisphare .

With bassist Marcello Giuliani , drummer Christophe Calpini , rappers Nya and Ndagijé and DJ Goo, he founded the multicultural group Silent Majority in 1992 , with which he recorded two albums and an EP . He has also given concerts with Matthieu Michel, Léon Francioli and Pascal Auberson . He was also a pianist in the Piano Seven ensemble around François Lindemann , with whom he has given concerts around the world. Then he formed a duo with Pierre-Yves Borgeaud.

With Calpini he formed the Duo Stade in 2006 , with whom he has released several albums since 2007 and with Joy Frempong , David Murray , Pascal Auberson, Glenn Ferris , Jean-Paul Bourelly and Ganesh Geymeier . He has also performed with Brad Shepik , Mark Feldman , Infinite Livez , Werner Hasler , Erik Truffaz , Grégoire Maret , Elliott Sharp , Roots Manuva , Jean-Paul Bourelly and Nils Petter Molvær .

Audétat wrote theater and film music . He teaches at the Basel Music Academy and at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne (HES-SO), where he heads the composition department and teaches electronic music . In cooperation with IRCAM he carried out the research project La cloche diatonique .

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  1. ^ Stade (Mx3 - The Swiss Music Portal)
personal data
SURNAME Audétat, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss fusion and jazz musicians (keyboards, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne