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Artist
Airelle Besson
12+ albums
trumpetjazzfrenchcontemporary jazzcomposer
about
Trumpeter, composer and arranger, Airelle Besson has been noticed on the European jazz scene for her clear and powerful playing, virtuoso but never demonstrative, in the service of emotion and musicality. Trained in classical and jazz, she says she is influenced by both Bach and Keith Jarrett. Winner of the Django-Reinhardt prizes of the Académie du jazz and the Victoires du Jazz in the category "French instrumental revelation of the year", Airelle Besson is both a sought-after sidewoman and an assertive leader and composer. A precocious musician Born on March 23, 1978 in Paris, Airelle Besson became passionate about the trumpet at the age of four, and waited until she was seven to start playing it. As a teenager, accompanied by her father, she chose homeschooling to place the study of music at the center of her curriculum. In addition to the trumpet, she learned the violin, and followed a double training, classical and jazz. After passing through various conservatories, she entered the Paris-Sorbonne University in musicology, then joined the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, from which she graduated with the first prize in jazz. The definitive turn towards this music is made during an internship at the Cluny Jazz Festival (Jazz Campus in Clunisois) with trumpeter Jean-François Canape. Between electronics and acoustics At the end of the conservatory, Airelle Besson joined forces with saxophonist Sylvain Rifflet to create and co-direct Rockingchair, a q
