Benjamin Bondonneau
artist

Born in Sarlat in 1975, after joint studies of music and plastic arts (Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux), he develops a work of painter and plastician while being strongly engaged in the musical improvisation. He has carried out mixed projects on approaches as diverse as the forest, bees, Elisée Reclus, caves, Jean Degottex... He shares his work with Jean-Yves Bosseur, Michel Doneda, Michel Mathieu, Benjamin Maumus, Sébastien Cirotteau, Daunik Lazro, Fabrice Charles... In addition to painting and music, he has been working for several years on radio creation.

Jean-Luc Cappozzo
musician

Born in Belfort in 1954, after having started playing the trumpet in the Harmonie of his native town, Jean-Luc Cappozzo worked jointly on jazz and classical music. Then a meeting with the diatonic accordionist Serge Desaunay made him also practice traditional music. The meeting in 1984 with Dizzy Gillespie who invited him to participate in his concert was determining. In 1988, he obtained the state diploma of jazz teacher and taught trumpet and jazz at the music school of Roanne and intervened in the trumpet class of the CNSM of Lyon. He participated in various formations of the ARFI musicians' collective. He was part of the 5tet "L'Affrontement des Prétendants" of Louis Sclavis and the Grand Lousadzak of Claude Tchamitchian. He plays in the 5tet "Pentacle" of Sophia Domancich, the 4tet of Denis Fournier and the 5tet "Fragments et suite lyrique" of Joëlle Léandre. He created a quartet with Jean Aussanaire, Rémi Charmasson and Bernard Santacruz and a musical piece "Du Vent chez Johannes" with the string quartet Johannes. In 2005 he joined the mythical European orchestra: the Globe Unity Orchestra. He performs with the trio "Apollo" and composes various duets with the double bassists Joëlle Léandre or Eric Brochard, the singer Géraldine Keller, the drummer Paul Lovens, the tuba player Michel Godard, the pianist Umberto Petrin and the trumpeters Axel Dörner or Herb Robertson. Thanks to his power, his imagination, his magnificent sound, the clarity of his phrasing, Jean-Luc Cappozzo is today one of the essential trumpet players of the European scene and he is more and more in demand. Jean-Luc Cappozzo, a powerful and melodic trumpeter, is "a discreet man who would blush to be called one of the most relevant, most complete soloists of jazz in France. Let him blush." (S. Siclier Le Monde 1/08/2002).

Géraldine Keller
soprano, lyric artist and vocalist

Her preferred repertoire is rooted in the creation of contemporary works, favouring the complementarity of written and improvised music. Carried away from the plastic arts towards sound exploration, she has since traced an open path associating other practices: contemporary dance, musical theater, object theater, poetry and performance. Since 1992, as a member of these different projects, she has been invited by numerous musical ensembles, theatrical and choreographic companies, and French and European festivals, and has contributed to the creation of many works by contemporary composers. Through these encounters and projects, she has forged a lasting bond with the Bordeaux-based ensemble Proxima Centauri, the Ars Nova ensemble and improvising musicians: Jean Luc Cappozzo, Benjamin Bondonneau, Raphaël Saint-Rémy, Christelle Séry, Daunik Lazro, Claude Tchamitchian, Alfred Spirli, among many others. Since 2006, she has been a member of the European Ensemble ]h[iatus, which offers courses combining written pieces and improvisations. With the author Raharimanana is engaged in the exploration of new poetic and sound forms, including "Parfois le vide" created in March 2018. Alongside Patricia Kuypers and Franck Beaubois continues "Le lieu dit", an elaboration of improvisation bridges between space, body and voice.

Raphaël Saint-Rémy
musician

Raphaël Saint-Remy first practiced written contemporary music (in particular with the ondes Martenot sextet Jeanne Loriod), then turned to sound performances(Chants thermiques de l'orgue à feu, with Michel Moglia). After a few years during which he devoted himself solely to writing, he returned to improvised music, which he practiced with the piano or the spinet as well as the oboe or the "hauts-cuivres". Publications : - Records : " Clameur ", with Raymond Boni (guitar)," Serendipity ", with Jean-Claude Jones (guitar), " Voltes ", piano solo. - Books : " Des espèces en voie d'apparition ", " Alpha " (theater). To be published : " Contrechamps ".