Jacques Burtin
| Jacques Burtin | |
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Jacques Burtin at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jacques René Carlos Burtin |
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November 10, 1955 Paris, France |
| Genres | Contemporary classical, Ambient, Experimental music |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, improviser, writer, film director, (experimental film, documentary film) |
| Labels | Bayard Musique, Mara Productions, Studio SM |
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kora Gravi-kora Piano |
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Jacques Burtin (born November 10, 1955) is a French composer, writer and filmmaker.
After studying Literature and Art at La Sorbonne (Paris), he was introduced to the kora by brother Dominique Fournier at the Abbey of Bec Hellouin (Normandy, France) and by brother Dominique Catta, composer and choirmaster of the Keur Moussa Monastery (Senegal). He began to compose for the kora, solo pieces as well as duets with Western instruments.
His works are inspired by poets like Grace Schulman and Christian Bobin, spiritual authors like St. John of the Cross or Etty Hillesum, writers like Georges Simenon or Hermann Hesse, painters like Henri Matisse or Jean-Michel Basquiat, or photographers like Nan Goldin or Diane Arbus. He collaborates with artists, dancers and poets and conceives interdisciplinary performances.
Jacques Burtin is also involved in improvised music and has given concerts based on improvisation with harpist Susan Allen (musician), French panflute player Jean-Claude Mara, Japanese koto player Damien Harada, and French saxophonist Tullia Morand.
In 2004, he was invited by the Paul Verlaine University (Metz, France) to participate to the Colloque sur l'Art du Peu (Seminar on the Art of the Few) : he gave a solo kora performance based on haikus and wrote La Tentation du peu. (The Temptation of the Few).
May 12, 2006, his music was featured among the works of twelve composers from around the world in Sonic Channels, a concert hosted by the New School University and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Between 2002 and 2012, he gave seminars on Improvisation and Interdisciplinary Creation in the Faculty of Fine Arts School of the University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in collaboration with Spanish Choreographer Alicia Gómez Linares.
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