Jean-Pierre Catoul

Jean-Pierre Catoul is among the few contemporary violinists to merge jazz as well as rock music. First picking right up the device at age six (and learning music theory soon thereafter), Catoul performed in a number of bands through the ’80s (jazz, rock and roll, as well as big rings), nonetheless it wasn’t until 1987 that Catoul completely began to understand his potential on his device, as he analyzed with respected People from france violinist Didier Lockwood. In 1989, Catoul was the receiver of a Saxe honor from your Jazz Academy, as “the very best youthful hopeful of the entire year,” and lent his violin skills to a Television program around the Queen Elisabeth Competition, playing alongside a number of the best traditional virtuosos of contemporary times. In 1990, Catoul fulfilled among the violin’s all-time greats, Stéphane Grappelli, who asked the becoming more popular violinist to become listed on him at several concerts and celebrations. The ensuing 10 years became a occupied and productive one, as he was the main topic of a TV system entitled J-P Catoul, a Violin for Almost everywhere, he took component inside a concert All of the Violins from the Globe structured by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, playing in the Cirque Royal in Brussels alongside Grappelli and L. Subramaniam. In the middle-’90s, Catoul created rings with Breton accordionist Gwenaël Micault, with pianist Charles Loos, and he became a member of the music group One Shot, including such additional notables as Charlie Mariano, Yvan Paduart, Nathalie Loriers, Peter Hertmans, Stefan Lievestro, and Hans VanOosterhout. Catoul also discovered the time to create and immediate the symphonic plans for Western concerts by rock and roll legends Jimmy Web page and Robert Herb (ex-Led Zeppelin), after that supporting their strike No Quarter recording, and in 2001, became a member of makes with pianist Pirly Zurstrassen, for the record Septimana.