Sylvie Courvoisier
Composer/pianist, Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started to play piano at age of six initiated by her father, an amateur jazz pianist. She moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1998, where she currently resides.
She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tim Berne, Joey Baron, Mark Feldman, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joëlle Léandre, Herb Robertson, Butch Morris, Tom Rainey, Mark Dresser, Ellery Eskelin, Lotte Anker, Fred Frith, Michel Godard, Mark Nauseef among others.
She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her works include: Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra ; Balbutiements for vocal quartet and soprano ;Ocre de Barbarie, a musical performance for metronomes, automatons, barrel organ, piano, tuba, saxophone, violin and percussion.
Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival.
Her debut recording Sauvagerie Courtoise on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording ''Ocre on Enja Records (Music for barrel organ, piano, tuba, bass and percussion ) led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released 6 CDs as a leader, and 10 CDs as a Co-leader, and more than 20recordings as a side person or as a guest.
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December 03, 2015
Jazz this week: Sean Jones, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman, Roseanna...
November 22, 2015
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman
May 25, 2014
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Play National Concert Hall, Dublin,...
March 02, 2010
Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet - To Fly to Steal (Intakt)
September 13, 2006
Cecil Taylor + 2: Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier Oct. 12 in Chamber...
Courvoisier's playing is jaw-dropping at times, and there's an extended passage that features her working both inside and on the keyboard of the piano interacting with Rainey and the others in subtle combinations, and working up to a terrifying free jazz piano freakout that could make a person faint! —Michael Anton Parker, 2005
This highly original and new music has it all: razor-sharp edges, sounds of a thousand dancing needles, thundering power arising from deeply yawning chasms, mystic fluorescence throughout, calmness combined with a mysterious kind of moving. —Henning Bolte, 5/2007
Dans un autre pays que la Suisse, elle serait adulée comme une des plus importantes plumes musicales de son temps
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