Английская Википедия:Benoît Delbecq

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Benoît Delbecq (born 6 June 1966) is a French pianist and composer.

Early life

Benoît Delbecq was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and raised in a musical environment. He started studying piano in Bougival at the age of seven with Nicolle Mollard, a former student of Alfred Cortot. He first studied jazz harmony with parisian pianist Jean-Pierre Fouquey, then joined IACP in Paris (in 1982), a jazz and improvised music school founded and directed by bassist Alan Silva, while he continued high school and furthermore sound engineering studies. In 1983 he met Mal Waldron who encouraged him to work on his own music. As he had become an assistant director for films as well as an assistant in sound engineering, Delbecq finally opted to become a professional musician after attending the Banff Centre Jazz Workshop, Canada, in the summer of 1987, where he studied with Dave Holland, Steve Coleman and Muhal Richard Abrams among others. He then studied composition and music analysis with Solange Ancona at the Versailles National Conservatory, studied with pianist Georges Delvallée at Cachan Conservatory. Together with saxophonist Guillaume Orti from France, he went back again to the Banff Jazz workshop in the summer of 1990 where he studied under the direction of Steve Coleman. There he met peers like pianists Ethan Iverson and Andy Milne, saxophonists Tony Malaby and Jorrit Dijsktra, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi among others, as well as British drummer Steve Argüelles, a long-term collaborator.

Later life and career

Since 1989, Delbecq has participated in nearly a hundred and fifty records. He performs solo piano and solo electronics ("MadMacs"), leads or co-leads a number of bands from duos to quintets, and is involved in many multi-disciplinary productions of theater, dance, the visual arts, cinema, radio etc.

Awards

Benoît was awarded the Prix de la Sacem in 1995 (with collective Kartet). He was also awarded the Prix de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs in 2001 and the Civitella Foundation (NY) fellowship in 2009. Both The Sixth Jump and Circles and Calligrams (songlines) were awarded a Grand Prix International de l'Académie Charles Cros,

Selected discography

As leader/co-leader

Year recorded	Title	Label	Notes
1992	Kartet Hask	Adda	with Guillaume Orti, Hubert Dupont, Benjamin Henocq
1993	Paintings	Deux Z	Quartet, with Guillaume Orti, Joseph Carver, Steve Argüelles
1994	Les Amants de Juliette	Doc	with Serge Adam and Philippe Foch
1994	The Recyclers Rhymes	Deux Z	with Steve Argüelles, Noël Akchoté
1995	Kartet Pression	Deux Z	with Guillaume Orti, Hubert Dupont, Benjamin Henocq
1995	The Recyclers Visit	Deux Z	with Steve Argüelles and Noël Akchoté, plus Wolter Wierbos, Kenneth Newby and François Houle
1995	The Recyclers Live in Canada 1995	Rectangle	with Steve Argüelles, Noël Akchoté
1999	Ambitronix We Da Man	Plush	with Steve Argüelles
1999	Pursuit	Songlines	Quintet, with François Houle and Michael Moore (clarinet), Jean-Jacques Avenel (bass), Steve Argüelles (drums)
2001	Piano Book	Plush	with Steve Argüelles
2001	Dice Thrown	Songlines	Duo, with François Houle (clarinet)
2001	Nu Turn	Songlines	Solo piano
2003	Phonetics	Songlines	Quartet, with Oene van Geel (viola), Mark Helias (bass), Emile Biayenda (drums)
2006	9volt Trippin	Plush	As Ambitronix; duo, with Steve Argüelles
2007	La Lumière de Pierres	Psy	with Evan Parker, François Houle
2008	The Bay Window	Songlines	with Guillaume Orti, Hubert Dupont, Chander Sardjoe
2008	Way Beneath the Surface	Songlines	As Poolplayers; quartet, with Arve Henriksen, Lars Juul, Steve Argüelles
2009	Where Is Pannonica?	Songlines	with Andy Milne
2010	Circles and Calligrams	Songlines	Solo piano
2010	The Sixth Jump	Songlines	with JJ Avenel and Emile Biayenda
2011	Balance des blancs	Sofa	with Kim Myhr, Nils Ostendorf and Toma Gouband
2011	Because She Hoped	Songlines	Duo, with François Houle (clarinet)
2012	Crescendo in Duke	nato	With various others
2013	Fun House	Songlines	As Benoit Delbecq/Fred Hersch Double Trio; with Fred Hersch (piano), Jean-Jacques Avenel and Mark Helias (bass), Steve Argüelles (drums, electronics), Gerry Hemingway (drums)
2014	Grand Laps	Songlines	with Guillaume Orti, Hubert Dupont, Stéphane Galland
2013	Fourth Landscape	NuScope	Trio, with Samuel Blaser (trombone), Gerry Hemingway (drums, percussion)
2014	Grand Laps	Songlines	with Guillaume Orti, Hubert Dupont, Stéphane Galland
2014	Les Amants de Juliette s'électrolysent	Doc	Trio, with Serge Adam (trumpet), Philippe Foch (percussion)
2015	Tout Va Monter	nato	Trio, with Joëlle Léandre (bass), Carnage the Executioner (voice, beatbox, percussion)
2015	Ink	Clean Feed	Trio, with Miles Perkin (bass), Emile Biayenda (drums, percussion)
2015	rue Paul Fort	Leo	with Joëlle Léandre, François Houle, Benoît Delbecq 19
2016	Illegal Crowns	RogueArt	with Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomas Fujiwara
2016	Evergreens	dStream	As Plug and Pray; duo, with Jozef Dumoulin (Rhodes, bass station, keyboards, e-drumming)
2017	Foley	dStream	As Manasonics; trio, with Nicolas Becker (foley, sound design), Steve Argüelles (drums)
2017	Solo		Solo piano; in concert; released as download or stream
2017	Spots on Stripes	Clean Feed	Quartet, with Mark Turner (tenor sax), John Hébert (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums)
2018	Davout	dStream	As The Recyclers; trio, with Christophe "Disco" Minck (bass, ngoni, moog, harp), Steve Argüelles (drums, percussion)
2019	The No-Nosed Puppet	RogueArt	As Illegal Crowns; with Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara
2020	Hopetown - Claudia Solal and Benoît Delbecq	RogueArt	rec. 2018.
2020	Deep Ford - You May Cross Here		with Robin Fincker and Sylvain Darrifourcq (BMC).
2021	The Weight of Light - solo piano	Pyroclastic	rec. March 2020.
2023	Unclosing	Out Of Your Head	As Illegal Crowns; with Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomas Fujiwara