Fabien Ghirotto - Drums, Composition
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Formed in 2022, the Fabien Ghirotto Quartet draws on a variety of influences ranging from Miles Davis second quintet to the more contemporary developments of the New York's next generation (Ambrose Akinmusire, Immanuel Wilkins).
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The compositions are designed to leave plenty of room for improvisation, allowing the musicians of the quartet to express their creativity in eclectic arrangements that are sometimes intimate, sometimes abundant. The presence of the bass clarinet in the ensemble creates many possibilities of timbre and allows the ensemble's sound palette to be strengthened to offer a singular sound.
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The listener can appreciate the cohesion of the musicians on stage. The result is original, nuanced music based on interaction.
Chloé Marsigny - Bass Clarinet​
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Chloé Marsigny is a composer and clarinettist born in 1994. She grew up at the foot of the Haute-Savoie mountains and initially had a scientific vocation.
After studying mathematics in a preparatory class and then in a university institute of technology, che decided to devote himself entirely to music.
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She has been playing the clarinet since the age of 7 and spent his teenage years discovering the jazz of the early 20th century to the sounds of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong...
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She will make his debut at the Conservatoire d'Annecy in Jazz class from 2012 to 2016, under the wing of saxophonist Richard Foy. It is there that she will play in his first bands and will open up to many musical trends such as Jazz Fusion from the end of the last century. A style to which she attaches a lot of importance, notably through a cover project of the Mahavishnu Orchestra entitled Have You Met Mr John?
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She currently plays and composes for the Paul Marsigny Sextet and is a member of the Forgotten Woods, Swing Box, Mirko Maïo Septet, Captain Valentine, duo The Link, Merlin et les maîtres de l'air projects.
She also collaborates with various musicians of the Swiss gypsy jazz scene.
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She joined the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in 2016 after obtaining his DEM in Jazz and obtained his Master of Arts in Music in 2021. She is still studying there to obtain a second Master's degree in jazz pedagogy.
Mirko Maio - Piano
Mirko Maio is a pianist of Italian origin, born in Switzerland in 1995. At the age of 18, he joined the Haute école de musique de Lausanne, in Jazz. During his studies, he had the opportunity to study with teachers such as Emil Spanyi, Bänz Oester and Dado Moroni.
Mirko Maio is an active musician on the Swiss scene: Montreux Jazz, Chorus Jazz Club, Jazz Onze+, Théâtre Forum Meyrin, Alhambra, La Spirale. He plays in multiple groups (Piano Quattro+ directed by François Lindemann, the Charles Schneider quartet with Olivier Clerc and Pierre-François Massy, the group Floating Land (winner of the Tremplin JazzContreBand).
Currently, he continues his life as a musician as leader of his Estampes project. He draws inspiration from the great composers of so-called "impressionist" music from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, mixing Jazz and Free culture.
Yves Marcotte - Double bass
Curious and a jack-of-all-trades, Yves Marcotte defines himself by his forward-looking attitude : nothing is more stimulating for him than the discovery of a new sound world. He feeds on all music without aesthetic, geographical, temporal or legitimacy barriers.
Having as models Oscar Pettiford, Paul Chambers, Israel Crosby and Larry Grenadier for the double bass, and his Holy Trinity (Ellington-Monk-Mingus) for the arrangement and jazz composition, he is also influenced by other creators with singular aesthetics (Ligeti, Zappa, Ducret, Stravinsky, ...).
The first album of his flagship project Always Know Monk, which revisits the Monkian legacy in a quartet without piano, was critically acclaimed. He co-leads the trio Kolmoset, a Jazz à Venir revelation of Jazz à Porquerolles. He is also a sought-after sideman for the warmth of his sound and his sense of listening.