"Stéphane Guillaume Quartet" project
"STÉPHANE GUILLAUME QUARTET"
Stéphane GUILLAUME: Saxophones, flutes, clarinets
Frédéric FAVAREL: Guitar
Marc BURONFOSSE: Double bass
Antoine BANVILLE: Drums
Reunited after recording an album in 2003, this quartet continues to be a veritable laboratory of creativity. For all these years, and four albums recorded together, our human and musical complicity has endured, and I like knowing that there's a kind of 'home' where I can try out new compositions, new ideas, or simply continue to defend the music we've recorded together over several decades.
Discography:
- PEWTER SESSION (2014)
- WINDMILLS CHRONICLES (2009) ... awarded 'best French jazz record' by the Académie du Jazz
- INTRA-MUROS (2006)
- SOUL ROLE (2004)
STÉPHANE GUILLAUME QUARTET - The Search // Live @ le fil
Stéphane Guillaume Paris 2012
"Sui Generis" - Stéphane Guillaume 4tet (confined version)
Stéphane Guillaume, Frédéric Favarel, Marc Buronfosse, Antoine Banville
THE MUSICIANS
Stéphane Guillaume (Saxophones, Flutes, Clarinets): Stéphane began rubbing shoulders with the world of jazz musicians at the age of 17, when he was awarded 1st prize in classical saxophone at the Paris Conservatoire. He celebrated his 20th birthday on tour with Laurent Cugny's Orchestre National de Jazz in 1994. Now a sought-after sideman, he went on to take part in numerous projects, notably alongside Patrice Caratini, Claude Nougaro, Didier Lockwood, the Paris Jazz Big Band, Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza and others.
Of course, he has not neglected his career as a leader and composer, releasing 5 albums under his own name.
In 2009, the Académie du Jazz awarded him the prestigious ‘Django Reinhardt’ prize for best French jazz artist, as well as the prize for best French jazz album for ‘Windmills Chronicles’. Stéphane has been teaching saxophone, flute and arranging at the C(entre) des M(usiques) D(idier) L(ockwood) for many years. He also directs the student Big Band.
© photo: Yannis Roger
© photo : Yannis Roger
Frédéric Favarel (Guitar): Born in 1966, Frédéric Favarel has been a professional jazz musician since 1986. After playing with various groups in the south of France and completing his training in New York (USA) for three years (studying with Richie Beirach, Kenny Werner, Fred Hersh, John Abercrombie, etc.) at the New School for Social Research, he moved to Paris in 1995 and joined the Orchestre National de Jazz under Laurent Cugny.
Accompanist in France and abroad for various jazz conductors and soloists (Carine Bonnefoy, Fabrice Alleman, Laurent Cugny, Stéphane Guillaume, Frédéric Monino, Tim Ries, Phil Abraham...) and featured on some twenty albums, Frédéric Favarel is also leader of his own projects, with six albums to his credit.
Latest release: "By Oneself" (WeeSee Music).
An art teacher since 2019, he has worked at the CRD du Val-Maubuée Paris-Vallée de la Marne since 2002, and after teaching at the conservatoires of Lille and Tourcoing (59), he has been coordinating the jazz department at the CRD de Cachan (94) since 2023, and also teaches at the Pôle Supérieur d'Enseignement Artistique de Paris- Boulogne Billancourt (PSPBB).
Marc Buronfosse (Double Bass): A fixture on the French jazz scene since the early 90s, in 1992 he won first prize in the Concours de la Défense with the Bojan Z Quartet. Two highly acclaimed albums (Bojan Z Quartet and Yopla) followed. He is a member of the Stéphane Guillaume Quartet, Gueorgui Kornazov Horizons Quintet, Georges Paczynski Trio, Jasser Haj Youssef Quartet, Stéphane Tsapis Trio, Issa Murad Joussour Group, Toufic Farroukh Sextet, Hugo Corbin Quartet... The Stéphane Guillaume 4tet + Brass CD ‘Windmills Chronicles’ won the 2009 Académie du Jazz prize for best jazz album of the year. In 2011, the CD by Michel Elmalem's 5tet received the same award from the Académie du Jazz. He leads a new quartet with Benjamin Moussay, Jean-Charles Richard and Antoine Banville. The Marc Buronfosse Sounds Quartet album ‘Face The Music’ was released on the Abalone Productions label on 17 April 2010. It received the ‘Révélation’ award from Jazz Magazine and was voted 4th best album of 2010 by the Académie du Jazz. His band ÆGN's debut album entitled ‘Aigaio’ recorded in Paros, Greece was released on 26 August 2016 by Abalone Productions / L'Autre Distribution, an electric project where he plays a Fender Bass VI exclusively. The CD received a very positive reception from the press and the public. It was chosen by FIP as one of the 250 must-have albums for the desert island. ÆGN's second album, entitled ‘Aegean Nights’, is released in autumn 2020 on his own label Arts Culture Europe / Inouïe Distribution to excellent reviews. A trio album with Etienne Guéreau and Gautier Garrigue, ‘So Predictable’, was released on the same label in September 2021, also very well received by the press. A new duet album with Syrian singer Lynn Adib, entitled ‘Nearness’, was released on 6 May 2022, still on the Arts Culture Europe / InOuïe Distribution label, and received excellent international press.
He teaches jazz at the Conservatoire des 11ème et 13ème arrondissement and at the CRR de Paris. He is director of the Mediterranean Artists Masters Festival on the island of Paros, Greece. In 2022 and 2023, he is organising a jazz competition for young Greek musicians under the patronage of trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti.
© photo : Yannis Roger
© photo : Gerard de Haro
Antoine Banville (Drums, Percussion): Antoine began drumming in 1990 with Jean-Louis Méchali, a French drummer and excellent teacher who was an inspired friend of Elvin Jones and Jack Dejohnette... He also studied classical and oriental percussion with Michèle Claude and Marie-Ange Petit.
After some fine experiences in orchestras, notably symphony orchestras, his taste for rhythms from all over the world led him to work with musicians such as Teofilo Chantre (Cape Verde); Leïty M'Baye (Senegal); Lena Shamamyan (Syria); René Aubry (France)...
As a jazz musician, he has played with the likes of Stéphane Guillaume, Alex Stuart, Emmanuel Bex, Jean-Philippe Viret, David Venitucci, Sylvain Beuf, Manu Codjia, Thomas de Pourquery, Nicolas Folmer, Emile Parisien, Christophe Wallemme, Pharoah Sanders...
Dance accompaniment has been one of his constant activities since 1990, notably for Carolyn Carlson, Dominique Marcy, Serge Ricci, Pierre Doussaint, Jean-François Duroure, Sophie Lessard, Jean Gaudin, Paco De Cina, Olivia Granville, Peter Goss, and for the CNSMD de Paris since 2017.
A state-qualified teacher of jazz and improvised music, he has been involved with Didier Lockwood's CMDL since 2006, and regularly since 2012 with DEM Jazz drumming and Edim's jazz and contemporary music ensembles.
Antoine has contributed to several film soundtracks (‘Fureur’ by Karim Dridi; ‘Les glaneurs et la Glaneuse’ by Agnès Varda) and around forty records, mainly in the jazz world.
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