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Vous souhaitez apprendre \u00e0 improviser au violon, vous lib\u00e9rer des contraintes de la musique classique?<\/p>\n
Vous voulez swinguer comme St\u00e9phane Grappelli, mais vous ne savez pas par quoi commencer?<\/p>\n
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Tout a commenc\u00e9 lorsqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 4 ans, j\u2019ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 un concert de ma m\u00e8re pianiste qui jouait avec un violoniste. Je me souviens avoir clairement d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de jouer du violon ce jour-l\u00e0 ! J\u2019ai donc commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00e9tudier au concervatoire, puis plus tard en classe professionnelle, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e au conservatoire de Fribourg (Suisse), puis Gen\u00e8ve\u2026 J\u2019ai eu la chance d\u2019avoir d\u2019excellents professeurs, j\u2019ai pu \u00e9galement jouer des ann\u00e9es dans de bons orchestres de jeunes.<\/span><\/p>\n ” content_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”4.14.4″ text_font=”Lato||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Oswald|300|||||||” header_font_size=”45px” header_line_height=”1.7em” header_6_font=”Lato|700||on|||||” header_6_text_color=”#b8515b” header_6_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding_phone=”30px||30px||true” custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”36px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I was four years old I watched a concert of my mother, a pianist, playing with a violinist. I actually remember deciding that very day that I wanted to be a violinist! So I began studying at a conservatory for youth, and then later at the college level I graduated from the conservatory of Fribourg (Switzerland), and then Geneva. 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And as well being a classical musician was stressful for me. I was very tense while playing, I started having pains, including a pain in my shoulder that often prevented me from playing.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.13.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.13.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.apprendre-le-violon-jazz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/186A0924.jpg” title_text=”186A0924″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”52px|||||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.13.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ text_font=”Lato||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Oswald|300|||||||” header_font_size=”45px” header_line_height=”1.7em” header_6_font=”Lato|700||on|||||” header_6_text_color=”#b8515b” header_6_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_margin=”0px|||||” custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding_phone=”30px||30px||true” custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”36px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Around the age of 20, by pure chance, I was watching a documentary on Yehudi Menuhin, the famous classical violinist who opened himself up to other musical styles. In that documentary I watched St\u00e9phane Grappelli for the first time. It was a shock, a thunderbolt, a revelation: what was this exotic way of playing the violin? I had never heard it; in fact, there weren\u2019t many opportunities to hear jazz violin in Switzerland. I had already tried improvising with friends, and had fun with it, but I did not know that it could sound like this and reach such a level! So I decided to seek advice from jazz musicians around me, and I started to listen, listen, listen \u2026 in order to enter this other musical world. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.14.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ text_font=”Lato||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Oswald|300|||||||” header_font_size=”45px” header_line_height=”1.7em” header_6_font=”Lato|700||on|||||” header_6_text_color=”#b8515b” header_6_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_margin=”0px|||||” custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding_phone=”30px||30px||true” custom_padding_last_edited=”off|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”36px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u00a0Little by little, I began to play with gypsy jazz bands, and thus I started to understand the music better. 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So I threw myself into the gypsy jazz scene, went to many jams, met many musicians, and little by little I had more and more concerts, until eventually I couldn\u2019t leave! I ended up staying in the City of Light, and still live there today \u2026<\/p>\n This double training of classical and jazz allows me to play in different contexts, and to be able to adapt to different musical styles, depending on the occasion. All this is exciting! Learning is never finished: we learn every time we play, and there is always new material to work on, and other musicians to collaborate with\u2026<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”justified” global_colors_info=”{}”]Now I am developing my own project in jazz with wonderful musicians, and I just released my first album \u201cINSPIRATIONS\u201d, which is scheduled for the return with the Swiss label UNIT RECORDS. A Swiss-Austria-France tour is being organized! I hope that your visit to my site will make you want to come to a concert one of these days, who knows! After reading about my journey, I hope you feel motivated to learn more about this music which gives us an amazing sense of freedom while playing. If you want to know more about my biography, as well as watch videos of my concerts or listen to music, here are two links that will redirect you to my site with my music, the site of my jazz group Manouche French Standard and my channel on Youtube.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My background\u00a0 When I was four years old I watched a concert of my mother, a pianist, playing with a violinist. I actually remember deciding that very day that I wanted to be a violinist! 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At first it was difficult, I really felt like I was starting from scratch, learning to play the violin again, not knowing anything \u2026 I took some jazz violin courses and then I started taking lessons regularly with Pierre Blanchard, who came to teach courses in Switzerland every month. I learned a lot with him, he was an excellent teacher for me, and his method was excellent and concrete, which was what I needed. But it was difficult in the beginning because I did not have the opportunity to put into practice this new knowledge, and while learning jazz you must play with others. I was also studying classical music full time, so jazz was somewhat of a hobby, which made it slow going.<\/p>\n