Raphaël Imbert

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Raphaël Imbert (2009)

Raphaël Imbert (born June 2, 1974 in Thiais ) is a French jazz musician ( saxophones , clarinets , composition ) and musicologist.

Live and act

Imbert first learned to play the saxophone as an autodidact at the age of fifteen . He studied in Philippe Renault's jazz class at the Marseille Conservatory. At the end of 1995 he received the first prize of the conservatory.

In 1996 he founded the groups Hemlé Orchestra and the Atsas-Imbert Consort (with the guitarist Émile Atsas, the pianist Vincent Lafont and the drummer Jean-Luc Di Fraya, with whom he performed at Jazz à Vienne , the Nice Jazz Festival and the Fiesta des Suds appeared in Marseille). Imbert then led various other projects, which are also documented on albums; Among other things, he compared the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with that of John Coltrane and works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with those of Duke Ellington . He also appears with several of the groups he founded, the Compagnie Nine Spirit , to which he has invited musicians such as Gerald Cleaver , Joe Martin , Yaron Herman and Zim Ngqawana . With Urs Leimgruber , Joe McPhee and Evan Parker he recorded a title for the album 13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler ( RogueArt 2010). Archie Shepp also brought him to his Attica Blues Orchestra ( I Hear The Sound , 2013).

Imbert has composed film and theater music for projects by Philippe Carrese and Isabelle Boni-Claverie .

From 2003 to 2006 he was assistant professor in the jazz class at the Marseille Conservatory. Since 2010 Imbert has been a member of the Improtech research group , which investigates the relationship between improvisation and new technologies on behalf of the National Research Agency . He is also jazz coordinator at the Institut d'Enseignement Supérieur de la Musique Europe et Méditerranée d'Aix en Provence . Since September 2019 he has been the director of the National Conservatory of Marseille.

Prizes and awards

Imbert received the 2003 La Villa Médicis Hors les Murs award for his six-month research on sacred music in jazz in New York . In 2005 he and his group Newtopia Project won the main prize for orchestra and second prize as a soloist at the La Défense national jazz competition . In 2018, his album Music Is My Hope was recognized as a cross-border album at Les Victoires du Jazz .

Performance of the Newtopia Project at Jazz in Marciac 2005)

Discographic notes

  • Raphaël Imbert Nine Spirit: Méditations dans un cratère (Idéoplurielle 2002)
  • Newtopia Project: Suite élégiaque (Zig-Zag Territoires 2006, with Zim Ngqawana, Yaron Hermann, Stephan Caracci, Simon Tailleu , Cedrick Bec)
  • Raphaël Imbert Project: Bach - Coltrane , (Zig-Zag Territoires 2008)
  • New York Project (Zig-Zag Territoires 2009, with Joe Martin, Gerald Cleaver)
  • Raphaël Imbert & André Jaume : Janus (Label Durance / Orkhêstra 2013; compositions by Alain Soler )
  • The Alppalachians , (Label Durance / Orkhêstra 2015, with Marion Rampal, Pierre Fenichel, Paul Elwood
  • Music is My Home: Prologue , (Jazz Village 2015, with Big Ron Hunter, Leyla McCalla , Anne Paceo , Sarah Quintana, Alabama Slim)
  • Music is My Hope , (2018, with Pierre-François Blanchard, Thomas Weirich, Pierre Durand, Jean-Luc Difraya, Aurore Imbert, Marion Rampal, Big Ron Hunter, Manu Barthelemy)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Raphaël Imbert nouveau directeur du Conservatoire national à rayonnement régional de Marseille
  2. ↑ Gérard Assayag: page consacrée à OMAX. In: etincelle.ircam.fr. Retrieved September 11, 2019 . .
  3. ↑ Franpi Barriaux: Chronique: Imbert / Rampal / Fenichel / Elwood // The Alppalachians. citizenjazz.com, accessed September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Imbert, Raphaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (saxophones, clarinets, composition) and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Thiais