Stéphane Guillaume

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Stéphane Guillaume (born October 12, 1974 in Le Plessis-Bouchard , Val d'Oise) is a French jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist.

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Guillaume studied classical saxophone at the Conservatoire de Paris (where he won a First Prize) and has performed as a jazz musician since the age of seventeen, with Jean Bonal , Jacques Vidal , Ted Hawke , among others . From 1994 he was in the Orchester National de Jazz under Laurent Cugny , with whom he also recorded three albums. There he met Maria Schneider , Enrico Rava , Lucky Peterson , Tommy Smith, among others .

In 1996 he recorded his debut album under his own name Miage . From 1996 to 2002 he played with Y´aka Sax , 1997 to 2001 in the big band Lumière of Laurent Cugny, 1997 to 2003 in the jazz ensemble of Patrice Caratini and in the quintet of Stéphane Huchard . From 1998 to 2002 he played in Umberto Pagnini's Cricca, from 1998 to 2005 in the quintet of Gueorgui Kornazov and from 1999 to 2003 in the quintet of Frédéric Favarel . He accompanied Claude Nougaro on his tour in 2000/2001 , played in the septet by Christian Escoudé (2003 to 2006), with the New Quartet by Didier Lockwood (2002 to 2007), the Paris Jazz Big Band by Pierre Bertrand and Nicolas Folmer , in a quartet by Benoît Sourisse and André Charlier (2003 to 2009), in the quintet by Christophe Wallemme (2003 to 2009), in the tentet by Hervé Sellin (2005 to 2009), in the Ilium Septet by Pierre de Bethmann (2006 to 2010), in the New Large Ensemble by Carine Bonnefoy and in 2008 participated in the Blauklang project by Vince Mendoza .

In 2004 he again recorded his own album ( Soul Role , O-Plus) with his own quartet (Frédéric Favarel (guitar), Marc Buronfosse (bass), Antoine Banville (drums)). Another album followed in 2006, Intra-Muros (Harmonia Mundi) and in 2009 Windmills Chronicles (Gemini Records), in which his quartet enters into dialogue with seven brass players. The idea came to him after playing at the Lyon Opera in 2008. This album received the award for the best French album at the Academie du Jazz in 2009. In 2011 he performed his Brass Project at the Paris Jazz Festival.

In 2009 he received the Prix ​​Django Reinhardt .

He teaches at the Center des Musiques Didier Lockwood.

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SURNAME Guillaume, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Plessis-Bouchard