Jean-Christian Michel
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Jean-Christian Michel is a composer
and clarinetist. His compositions are influenced by jazz
and by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
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Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. He is a "Full Member" of the SACEM (association of composers and music publishers to protect copyright and royalties). He received the prize for "Sciences and Culture" at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, awarded by a jury of six Nobel Prize
winners. Jean-Christian Michel is currently the godfather of the campaign Neurodon, within the Federation for Brain Research FRC
Drummer Kenny Clarke
played and recorded with Michel for 10 years.
Michel is also a climber. He was to climb Tawesche, in the Himalayas.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and clarinetist. His compositions are influenced by jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
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Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. He is a "Full Member" of the SACEM (association of composers and music publishers to protect copyright and royalties). He received the prize for "Sciences and Culture" at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, awarded by a jury of six Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winners. Jean-Christian Michel is currently the godfather of the campaign Neurodon, within the Federation for Brain Research FRC
Drummer Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke , born Kenneth Spearman Clarke, nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming...
played and recorded with Michel for 10 years.
Michel is also a climber. He was to climb Tawesche, in the Himalayas.
Discography
- Requiem
- Aranjuez
- Musique sacrée (with Kenny Clarke)
- Crucifixus
- JQM (with Kenny Clarke)
- Le cœur des etoiles
- Vision d’Ezéchiel
- Ouverture spatiale (with Kenny Clarke)
- Eve des origines (with Kenny Clarke)
- Port-Maria (with Kenny Clarke)
- Musique de lumière
- Jean-Christian Michel in concert
- Vif-obscur
- Les années-lumière
- Les cathédrales de lumière
- Aranjuez 2004
- Portail de l'espace 2005
- Bach transcriptions 2006
- Live concert 2007
- Spatial Requiem 2008