NICOLAS FOLMER
Genres: Post Bop, Funk Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Classic Fusion • France

Nicolas Folmer is an uncommon trumpeter. He is one of those who stand out thanks to their numerous skills. This remarkable instrumentalist has an extremely diverse expressive palette in jazz. And not only is he a talented composer and arranger, as have shown the many pieces of sheet music that he has signed for, amongst others, the Paris Jazz Big Band, but he is also a leader who gets involved into fascinating adventures that brought him to discuss with some famous figures such as Daniel Humair, David Liebman or Michel Portal. Native from Grenoble where he discovered early a vocation as a trumpeter but also as a songwriter (he submitted his first sheet music to a local big band when he was just 11 years old !), Nicolas Folmer made himself known by taking part in the National Jazz Orchestra led by Didier Levallet from 1996 to 2000, after brilliant studies at read more...