DAMIEN GROLEAU
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary • France

French pianist, flautist and composer, from Besançon, France. Familiar from early childhood with the keyboard and improvisation, Damien Groleau studied improvised and classical piano with Igor Blagodatov. At 16, he won the national contest of Jeunesses musicales de France, as well as the Jeunes Talents contest of L'Illiade in Strasbourg, with his first trio of compositions and improvisations "Sunjazz". His career on stage began as a teenager with numerous engagements in jazz groups and Cuban music in France and Switzerland (Festival d'Audincourt, Montreux Jazz festival). After two years of training in Paris at the Didier Lockwood school in 2002-2003, he completed his training as a pianist and composer with François Couturier at the Montbéliard conservatory. Damien Groleau studied the flute with the great Cuban flutist Orlando Maraca Valle in Paris and with the Brazilian choro flutist Antonio Rocha in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to his emerging career as read more...