QUATUOR IXI

Since its creation, Quatuor IXI, never stopped exploring improvised music and string quartet score in jazz music, leading jazz composer to write for this group.

Artists who played with Quatuor IXI :

Louis Sclavis, François Raulin, Dominique Pifarély
et François Couturier, Sound of Choice
(Hasse Poulsen, Frédrik Lundun et Lars Juul),
Pablo Cueco, Pierrick Hardy, Antoine Hervé
et les frères Moutin,
Pierre Blanchard, Riccardo del Fra,
Joachim Kühn ...

Artists who wrote for Quatuor IXI :

Pierrick Hardy, Denis Colin, Antoine Hervé,
Dominique Pifarély, Jean Philippe Watremez,
François Raulin, Riccardo del Fra,
Manuel Villarroël, Jean Claude Asselin, Joachim Kühn ...

Since its creation in 1994 Quatuor IXI recorded 4 C.D and played more than 150 concerts both in France and abroad ( Autriche, Belgique, Danemark, Finlande, Italie, Israël, Portugal, Suède, Suisse, Venezuela... )

Of a “classical” string quartet, they have the taste for collective long-drawn-out work, the attachment to the sonorous paste and musical matter and, obviously, the instrumental science which finds its strength in more than two centuries of repertory.
Of a jazz band, they possess the sense of rhythmic dynamics and, most of all, the art of improvisation, that they don't use here in the connection of the theme with the solo, but in the dynamic relationship between the soloist and the other voices.
Violinists Régis Huby and Irène Lecoq, violist Guillaume Roy and cellist Alain Grange did not choose the easiest way.
Through eleven years of passionate work, Quatuor IXI succeeded in finding a new way, where jazz adventure joins the experience of contemporary music, where scores skillfully melt with improvisation, where the group knows how to tighten without crushing the individual.
We knew France was a land of string jazz; a tradition of great violinists, from Warlop and Grappelli to Pifarély is the evidence. The epic goes on with Quatuor IXI, intrepid pioneers in a music universe that is still untouched and full of promises.
Arnaud Merlin