Valentin Ceccaldi

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Valentin Ceccaldi (3rd from left) with the Akosh S. New Unit (2017)

Valentin Ceccaldi (born February 3, 1989 in Pithiviers ) is a French jazz musician ( cello , composition ).

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Ceccaldi comes from a family of musicians; his father was a teacher at the local music school and a violinist who played mostly traditional folklore. Like his older brother Théo , he first learned to play the drums before deciding on a string instrument. In his father's music school, he began taking music lessons at a young age; He also had the opportunity to study with Raphaële Semezis, Florian Lauridon, Joëlle Léandre , Vincent Courtois , Elise Dabrowski, Contessa Pascal, PRINT and Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer.

Ceccaldi appears regularly with Marcel & Solange (third group prize at the La Défense 2011 competition), but also in the Théo Ceccaldi Trio (winner at Tremplin Orleans 2011), at Walabix (winner at Tremplin Orléans 2009) and in the Médéric Collignon Quartet + Strings ( Project around the music of King Crimson ), in the Eric Amrofel Trio, in the Duo Fil with Leïla Martial and with Durio Zibethinus. In 2010 he co-founded Les bâtisseurs de ponts , a group of improvising musicians from Orléans. He also heads the Toons group .

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  1. The son of the music school teacher Neue Musikzeitung 20/2018
  2. meeting (jazz newspaper)