In France and Italy - the countries of his birth and adoption - as well as in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, he has performed with traditional musicians, particularly for Javanese gamelan. He has notably collaborated with: Steve Lacy, Barre Philipps, François Jeanneau, Didier Malherbe, Michel Godard, Andy Emler, Daunik Lazro, Didier Petit as well as Terry Riley, Sapto Raharjo, Jean Schwarz, Luc Ferrari, François Rossé, Christian Sebille, Jean-Yves Bosseur and others. An inquisitive creator, he articulates projects with innovative forms and collaborates with varied and often unexpected circles: musicians, dancers, actors of course, but also poets, visual artists and scientists. He is responsible for the musical realization of projects by street arts companies, as well as various commissions from authors: from the Centres Nationaux de Création Musicale (Nice, Marseille, Reims, Alfortville), the INA-GRM (composition of electro-acoustic pieces), as well as commissions from the French government, the CDN de Nice, the CNRS, the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) and France-Inter, France-Musique and France Culture's radio creation workshops. Poetry and storytelling naturally go hand in hand with his work as a "mise en sons", and over the past 20 years he has worked on a number of projects and creations with writers and poets (Nimrod, Daniel Biga, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Koffi Kwahulé, Édith Azam).


Alex Grillo
Composer, vibraphonist

His career is a crossing of musical genres: jazz, learned music, traditional or innovative, written or improvised. 

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