Sylvie Courvoisier

Sylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss composer/pianist

Sylvie Courvoisier was born (* November 30 1968 in Lausanne) and raised in Switzerland. She moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1998, where she currently resides. She is currently the leader of her own quintet "Lonelyville" and the Trio Abaton . She is a member of “Mephista”, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra;” Herb Robertson Quintet” with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser; “Vincent Courtois Trio “along with Ellery Eskelin and “John Zorn’s Cobra”.

Since 1997, she also performs regularly in Duo with violinist Mark Feldman (her husband).

elected diskography

* Signs and Epigrams (Tzadik 2007, solo)
* Lonelyville (Intakt 2007, with Ikue Mori, Mark Feldman, Vincent Courtois, Gerald Cleaver)
* Abaton (ECM Records 2004, with Feldman, Erik Friedlander)
* Malphas (Tzadik 2006, duo with Feldman, music of John Zorn)
* Entomological Reflections (Tzadik 2004,MEPHISTA: Courvoisier, Mori and Susie Ibarra)
* Y2K - Sylvie Courvoisier Ocre (Enja Records, 2000, with Michel Godard and Pierre Charial)

External links

* [http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/ Website]
* [http://www.musinfo.ch/index.php?content=maske_werke&pers_id=140&name=Courvoisier&vorname=Sylvie list of compositions]

Literature

* Rosset, Dominique: "Au carrefour des mondes. La compositrice et pianiste lausannoise Sylvie Courvoisier". Zurich 2005.