Jacques Demierre (born 4 January 1954, in Geneva) is a Swiss improvisation musician and composer.
Life and works
Demierre studied at the University of Geneva at the (piano, jazz piano, electroacoustic music) and at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (music theory). Soon, he gave up the classic piano and tended to the
avant-garde rock and improvised jazz. As a pianist, he played with ,
Radu Malfatti, and also with
Martial Solal,
Han Bennink, Joëlle Léandre,
Carlos Zingaro and
Ikue Mori. He performed regularly solo concerts and worked also in a trio with and
Barry Guy and also with
Urs Leimgruber and
Barre Phillips. Sylvie Courvoisier, and
Michel Wintsch were his students.
Demierre changed his way as a composer to the border of jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music, because he was interested in mixing the improvised music tradition with notated music.
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