Youen Cadiou

Youen Cadiou (* 1975 ) is a French jazz and classical musician ( double bass , composition ).

Act

Cadiou studied double bass in Saint-Malo with Elizabeth Allain and Gilles Rivière, then at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris ( early music ) under Richard Myron and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . He also attended master classes with François Rabbath and Barre Phillips .

Cadiou mainly interprets baroque and classical music on historical instruments, for example in the Ensemble Diderot, Opera Fuoco, La Tempête , with Hillary Metzger, Il Concerto Barocco, Benjamin Allard, Les Cris de Paris, Ma Non Troppo, Bart Naessens, Claroscuro, Les Surprises , Le Temps Suspendu, Orchester du capitole de Toulouse, Chartres Harpsichords, Temperaments, Le Festin d'Alexandre, Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Jean Rondeau . He also plays jazz, for example with Voice Messengers , Antoine Berjeaut , Benjamin Moussay, Ping Machine , Quentin Sirjacq and David S. Ware . Since 2004 he has been regularly in New York City, where he has been engaged in jazz and contemporary creative music ( Kris Davis , Walter Thompson , Christian Pincock, Sam Kulik, Sam Ospovat , Keith Witty, the Brooklyn Soundpainting Ensemble and Michaël Attias ). In the field of contemporary improvised music he is involved in the Amalgammes ensemble around Christophe Mangou, but also in the AUM Grand Ensemble around Julien Pontvianne or in projects by Frantz Loriot . With the singer Ellen Giacone he founded the Body & Soul Consort , with Boris Winter and Laurent Derache the Zibrok Trio .

Occasionally he wrote theater music ( Les Correspondances de Groucho Marx by Patrice Leconte with Jean-Pierre Marielle) and music for dance (Karine Pontiès, David Monceau, Henry Mezey, Nathalie Borger), accompanied readings (La Marche with Romane Bohringer, Charles Berling, Michael Lonsdale, Judith Magre, Chant d'Est with Fanny Ardant) and composed for video / performance installations (Claire M., Lorena Zillero, Eric Burtschy).

As a studio musician, he continued to work for Serge Lama , Le Cirque des Mirages, Stéphane Cadé, Pierre Barouh and interpreting the soundtracks of the films by Alix de Maistre , Emma Luchini and Emmanuel Mouret .

Web links

• biography
• Youen Cadiou at Discogs (English)