Pianist, composer Jacques Demierre was born in 1954 in
Geneva. His musical path takes many directions: improvised music, jazz,
contemporary music, sound project, performance, sound installation.
As a composer, his works are commissioned for the concert,
for dance... As a pianist, he performs with numerous groups playing improvised
music (Barre Philips, Urs Leimgruber, Martial Solal, Radu Maldatty, Joëlle
Léandre, Urs Blöchlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Carlos
Zingaro, Han Bennink, Ikue Mori, Dorothea Schürch...) and regularly
gives solo piano concerts.
He also collaborates with new music ensembles. Coeditor
of the Contrechamps review (dedicated to 20th century music).
Selected discography:
Disque - Jacques Demierre/Maurice Magnoni Duo
(Plainisphare, PAV 802)
Assemblance - Jacques Demierre piano solo (Unit
Records, UTR 4019)
Au homard - Vincent Barras/Jacques Demierre Duo
(MWO 03)
Fabrik-Songs - improvisations sur Weill
et Eisler - Jacques Demierre piano solo (Plainisphare, 1267-45 CD)
Jacques Demierre, un portrait, "Blue", "Désir
d'azur: musique de danse", "Je deviendrai Médée", Magali
Schwartz (vocals), Jacques Demierre (piano, vocals) (Grammont, CTS-P
38-2)
Live in Lausanne - Kutteldaddeldu, U.Blöchlinger/O.Magnenat/J.Demierre
trio (Plainisphare, 1267-61 CD)
Chockshut - H.Koch, M.Schütz, A.Marti, S.Wittwer,
F.Studer, J.Demierre Sextet (Intakt Records CD 031)
You need it - Kutteldaddeldu, U.Blöchlinger/O.Magnenat/J.Demierre
trio (Plainisphare, 1267-83 CD)
TST/Le tout sur le tout - J.Demierre/S.Courvoisier/G.Suto/A.Kessler/A.Valvini
(MGB CD 9502)
Musique nucléaire - H.Provini/J.Demierre
(UTR 4125)
Avec - Jacques Demierre, piano solo (Plainisphare,
PL 1267-115)
Deux pianos - Sylvie Courvoisier/Jacques Demierre
(Intakt CD 064)
Homard et autres pièces inquiétantes
et capitales - jacques Demierre (voc, micro), Vincent Barras (voc,
micros) (STV/ASM 008)
Contact:
JACQUES DEMIERRE
5, rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine
CH - 1205 Geneva (Switzerland)
tel/fax +41 22 3294838
e-mail: jacdem@geneva-link.ch
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