Sophia Domancich

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Sophia Domancich (2011)

Sophia Domancich (born January 25, 1957 in Paris ) is a French jazz pianist and composer.

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Domancich began to learn piano at the age of six and attended the CNSMDP Conservatory in Paris from 1968 to 1975 (first prizes in piano and chamber music). After that, she first earned her living as an accompanist in singing and dance lessons, e.g. B. at the Opera in Paris and the Theater of Caen . In 1979 she had her first contact with jazz . She played with Steve Lacy , Bernard Lubat and Jean-Louis Chautemps and from the early 1980s in a duo with and in the Big Band Lumiére of Laurent Cugny and the Big Band Quoi D'Neuf Docteur? (with Steve Grossman , Glenn Ferris , Jack Walrath ). In 1983 she came into contact with musicians from the English Canterbury scene, Elton Dean , Hugh Hopper and Pip Pyle . With Pyle, with whom she also lived for several years, she founded L'Equip Out in 1984 , which also made two recordings and with whom she played until 1991. She also played in the Trio Davenport and the Quartet Hors-Série before forming her own trio with bassist Paul Rogers and drummer Bruno Tocanne (later Tony Levin ), which lasted until 1999 and with which she recorded four albums (mostly with her own compositions ) recorded. She also performed solo. From 1997 to 2000 she was pianist under Didier Levallet in the Orchester National de Jazz . In the 1990s she began working with John Greaves (with whom she recorded Trouble with Happiness as a trio with Vincent Courtois in 2002 ) and with Simon Goubert , who is a member of her quintet Pentacle , and vice versa she is a member of his quartet. Other members of the Pentacle , founded in 2003, are Claude Tchamitchian , Michel Marre and Jean-Luc Cappozzo . By 2007 the quintet had produced two albums. In 2003 she was part of the group Soft Bound with Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper (ex-member of Soft Machine ) and Goubert. She also formed a trio with Ramón López and Joëlle Léandre . In 2007 she released a duo album with Goubert (You Don't Know What Love Is), with which she also released the album Snakes & Ladders in 2010.

In 1999 she was the first woman to receive the Django Reinhardt Prize . Her sister Lydia Domancich is also a jazz pianist.

Discographic notes

  • L'annee des treize lunes (Seventh, 1994, with Paul Rogers & Tony Levin)
  • La part des ans (Gimini, 1997, with Paul Rogers & Tony Levin)
  • Pentacle (Sketch, 2003, with Jean-Luc Cappozzo , Michel Marre , Claude Tchamitchian , Simon Goubert )
  • Sophia Domancich, Jean-Jacques Avenel , Simon Goubert Dag (Cristal, 2007)
  • Pentacle Triana Moods (Cristal, 2007, with Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Michel Marre, Claude Tchamitchian, Simon Goubert)
  • Sophia Domancich / Hamid Drake / William Parker Washed Away, Live at the Sunside (Marge, 2008)
  • Lilienmund (2010), with Raphael Marc
  • Pentacle En hiver comme au printemps (Sansbruit, 2017, with Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Michel Marre, Sébastien Boisseau , Simon Goubert)
  • SO (Sansbruit, 2017, solo piano)

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SURNAME Domancich, Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris