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After the release of Quentin Sirjacq's debut album "La Chambre Claire" in 2010 (released in Japan in 2011), a French composer/pianist has been collaborating with various musicians as well as composing for television programs, films, radio, and documentaries. This album will be his new release after his debut album "La Chambre Claire" released 2011 in Japan, which is a soundtrack for French movie "BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD (LES BEAUX JOURS)". After Quentin Sirjacq's debut, his music fascinates various listeners from classic, jazz, and modern music fans which the artist has profound knowledge of, and to post-classical and electronica listeners fans. In this album, it includes the pure beautiful sounds with rich emotions combined with elements of the French impressionist, Classic, Jazz, and American minimalism, what can be heard from his various tracks. Also, the new element of film has been added to create more stories in each track and able to feel the artist's imagined landscape.
Pianist/composer/multi-instrumentist Quentin Sirjacq was born in Paris in 1978. His eclectic musical interests keep him active as an improviser, a new music performer, and a composer of music for film, theater and radio. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands) between 1999 and 2004, where he completed an M.A. in Piano. While in the Netherlands, he played in a number of groups, he also worked with the bigband Tetzépi , Collison Palace and the Royal Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and performed in such prestigious halls as the Bimhuis, Ijsbreker and Beurs van Berlage, in addition to appearing at various European festivals. He met Fred Frith in Amsterdam's avant-garde music circuit and played with him several times, which lead to his enrollment at Mills College, CA to study composition. While at Mills, he has performed the music of F. Rzewski, J. Tenney and F. Frith, among others, and premiered a new work by José Maceda with virtuoso percussionist William Winant. This experience has allowed him to expand his relationship with the piano and his approach of music between traditions and experimentation. Since his debut album "La chambre claire" (2009), he has worked and performed regularly with Dakota suite (Chris Hooson and David Buxton), and has started a collaboration with Akira Kosemura and Shin Kikuchi for japanese label Schole records which lead him to release several albums on this label as well as being invited to perform in solo in Japan. He composed often for radio, films, or stage....
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