Sébastien Giniaux
Sébastien Giniaux (* 1981 ) is a French musician of gypsy jazz ( violin , guitar , also cello , composition, arrangement) who was active in gypsy jazz as well as in folk and world music .
Live and act
Giniaux grew up in Bourg-la-Reine , a suburb in the south of Paris and had violin lessons at the Conservatory in Bourg-la-Reine with Étienne Cardoze from the age of seven; later he studied at the CNR in Boulogne-Billancourt and in Aubervilliers - la Courneuve . At the age of 18 he began to learn to play guitar and traditional music styles; He was influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt , musical styles of the Balkans, classical music, jazz and improvised music . From the 2000s he worked as a musician, composer and arranger with various jazz, folk and world music formations such as Norig, Selmer # 607 (with Rocky Gresset , Adrien Moignard ), Balkan Project, Taraf de Haïdouks (album Maškaradă , 2007) and Caravan Palace (album of the same name in 2008), in the early 2010s with the singer Teofilo Chantre ( MeStissage , 2011) and with the singer Irina Björklund ( La vie est une fête , 2014). Currently (2017) he leads a sextet called Mélodie des choses , with Joris Viquesnel (guitar), Jérémie Arranger (double bass), Mathias Levy (violin), Chérif Soumano (kora) and Mihaï Trestian (cymbal). He also worked (as a cellist) with guitarist David Reinhardt ( The Way of Heart , 2008) and with singer Lemmy Constantine ( In Difference , 2009).
Web links
- Portrait at Django Station (French)
- Web presence
- Sébastien Giniaux at Discogs (English)
- Sébastien Giniaux in an interview with Michel Mercier (2014 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 18, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giniaux, Sebastien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |