Jean-Louis Matinier & Marco Ambrosini
Biographie Jean-Louis Matinier & Marco Ambrosini
Jean-Louis Matinier
born in 1963 in Nevers, France, studied both classical music and jazz, and attracted national and international attention as an outstanding soloist in the Orchestre National de Jazz at the end of the 1980s, when it was under the direction of Claude Barthélemy. Since 1999 he has accompanied chanson legend Juliette Gréco on concerts around the world. Matinier can be heard on ECM recordings with Anouar Brahem (Le pas du chat Noir, Le voyage de Sahar), François Couturier (Nostalghia, Tarkovsky Quartet) and Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit), as well as Sounds and Silence (music for the film of the same name). Others of his duo projects have included bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, and clarinettist Michael Riessler. In such contexts – and in his work with the groups of Brahem and Couturier – Jean-Louis Matinier has taken the accordion far beyond any ‘folkloric’ frame of reference.
Marco Ambrosini
was born in 1964 in Forli, Italy. He studied violin, viola and composition at the G.B. Pergolesi Institute in Ancona and at Pesaro’s Rossini Conservatory. One of very few nyckelharpa players working outside the Swedish folk tradition, he took up the instrument in 1983 and has since become one of its most outstanding exponents, shaping a new role for the instrument in baroque and contemporary music. Ambrosini has played on more than a hundred albums. He is the co-founder of the early music consort Oni Wytars. In addition to work with Matinier he has played in diverse contexts with Michael Riessler, Valentin Clastrier and many others. Marco Ambrosini can be heard on ECM recordings with Rolf Lislevand (Nuove musiche, Diminiuito) Giovanna Pessi/Susanna Wallumrød (If Grief Could Wait) and Helena Tulve (Arboles lloran por lluvia) as well as the Sounds and Silence anthology.
