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Marc Buronfosse

About Me

After classical guitar studies at the age of ten, he studied the upright bass in 1982 with Thierry Barbe while achieving studies in sound engineering and musicology. After receiving a prize at the Conservatoire de Paris XII, he began playing more and more jazz, working with bass players such as Cesarius Alvim, Charlie Haden, Reggie Workman and Henri Texier. He has also worked with symphonic orchestras (Opéra de Paris) and chamber music orchestras (tour in Japan with the “Solistes de Versailles”). In June 1991, he obtained a grant from the French Ministry of Culture and studied one year in New York at The New School of Music. During this time he worked regularly with Gary Peacock, Marc Johnson and Mark Dresser. He also met and played with Jimmy Cobb, Steve Kühn, John Abercrombie, Lew Soloff, Jim Hall, Tim Berne, Dave Liebman, and Billy Harper… In Paris, he plays with Stéphane Guillaume Quartet + Brass Project, René Aubry Septet, Michel Elmalem Quartet, Gueorgui Kornazov “Horizons” Quintet, Jasser Haj Youssef Quartet…and presently has his own quartet with musicians Benjamin Moussay, Jean Charles Richard and Antoine Banville. A new CD “Face The Music” has just been released in april 2010. He also teaches jazz at the Conservatoire National de Région of Paris.