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CLAUDIA SOLAL
Through a repertoire of original songs springing from collective improvisation, Spoonbox Quartet reveals an intimate and sensual universe, where all what's strange and marvelous boldly join. Its music is at the crossroads: pop and electronic music, jazz and improvisation, with some hints of contemporary music.
Not a fusion of styles though, but the creation of a specific sound.
« … prodigious technique serving expression only. » (Etienne Brunet, Jazz Magazine)
« … Claudia Solal, inventive and incredible virtuoso » (Michel Contat, Télérama).
Author, composer, singer, improviser, Claudia Solal releases her first album in 1998. My Own Foolosophy ‘, recorded with Baptiste Trotignon, Arnault Cuisinier and Thomas Grimmonprez, received major warm critics.
After exploring the jazz standard repertory, it was meeting pianist Françoise Toullec, in 1999 that led her towards improvised music.
In 2001 she created La Théorie du Chaos, a free vocal improvisation trio together with Lê Duy Xuân and Médéric Collignon.
In addition to her remarkable collaboration with Benjamin Moussay (since 2003), she created in 2006 an astonishing duo with saxophonist Jean-Charles Richard, based upon improvisation.
She’s asked to take part in a large number of projects in very different fields: soloist in Peter Herbert’s play “You’re my thrill”, an homage to Billie Holiday, (2007), singer and actress in Yves Rousseau’s “1, 2, 3 sourires” with Jean-Rémy Guédon, based on texts by Christian Bobin (2007), author of a seven-song suite for a teenager choir set to music by Bernard Struber (2008), composer, together with Jean-Charles Richard, of the soundtrack of France 2 TV series “Entre mère et fille” by Joëlle Goron (2008)…
At the moment, she’s working with Yves Rousseau’s sextet in “Poète, vos papiers”, an homage to Léo Ferré, Françoise Toullec’s quintet La Banquise, Martial Solal’s Newdecaband, Jean-Marc Padovani’s septet “Sketches”, “Les Couleurs”, a performance for a young audience with music by Yves Rousseau and lyrics by Pierre Etaix and of course her own projects, Spoonbox is one of them.
Besides, she's been teaching singing and improvisation for more than ten years (nowadays at the Strasbourg CNR and the Maurice Ravel Conservatoire in Paris) and leading workshops and master classes (Marciac, Jazz Campus en Clunisois...).
She's invited to numerous festivals and prestigiours stages: Radio-France Montpellier, Jazz à Orléans, Jazz à Vienne, Jazz D’Or, Rive de Gier, Jazz sur son 31, Nevers D’jazz, Jazz sous les Pommiers, Middelheim, Cité de la Musique de Paris and Strasbourg, the Filature in Mulhouse, the Arsenal in Metz, Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre de la Criée in Marseille, the Allan in Montbéliard, the Européen, the Chorus in Lausanne... Xavier Prévost, Anne Montaron invite her regularly on France Musique
Among her many collaborations are: Christian Escoudé, Ronnie Lynn Patterson, Philippe Macé, Mimi Lorenzini, Laurent Cugny, Christophe Wallemme, Eric Watson, Dan Tepfer, Archie Shepp, Philippe Lemoine, Jean-Marc Foltz, Thomas Savy. Lee Konitz, Olivier Sens, Didier Ithursarry, Eric Le Lann, Darryl Hall, Rick Margitza, Frères Moutin, Biréli Lagrène...
