Catherine Delaunay


Catherine Delaunay is a French jazz clarinet player and composer, best known as a leader of Y'en a qui manquent pas d'air. She is also a member of the French Laurent Dehors's big band "Tous Dehors".

Biography

Delaunay grew up in Brittany, France. She started studying the clarinet at the age of six in a local music school. At that time, she also studied the piano and percussion. Later on, she studied the piano and drums.
She studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rennes and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and passed the , le , le Certificat d'Etudes Complémentaires Spécialisées "Atelier instrumental du XXème siècle",.
From 1989 to 1995, she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. She studied the clarinet with Jacques Di Donato, Chamber Music with Jacques Aboulker, Contemporary music, Composition, Musical Analysis and Harmony with Loïc Mallié, and 5 keys clarinet and chalumeau with Jean-Claude Veilhan. From 1991 to 1994, she also studied drums with Jean-Louis Mechali.
While studying at the CNSMD, she performed with Marc Perrone, Laurent Dehors, and Alain Blesing.

Current career

Catherine Delaunay leads and composes music for several bands. She has set music to poems by Malcolm Lowry for her new projects Sois patient car le loup, for which she also plays the clarinet and the diatonic accordion, John Greaves sings and plays the ukulele, Isabelle Olivier plays the harp, Thierry Lhiver plays the trombone, and Guillaume Séguron plays the double bass).
Since 2000, Catherine Delaunay has been leading and composing music for the French fanfare "Y'en a qui manquent pas d'air", in which she plays with Lionel Martin saxophones, Daniel Casimir trombone, Didier Havet sousaphone, et Tatiana Lejude drums.
Catherine Delaunay is part of many other projects.
She plays in duet with the saxophonist Pascal Van den Heuvel, in duet with Tatiana Lejude, et with the trio "Trio Plumes" with Edouard Ferlet et Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac. She also performs regularly with Olivier Thomas, Régis Huby, and Laurent Dehors.
Catherine Delaunay also plays with dancers, actors.
With Pierre Badaroux on double bass, Catherine Delaunay also sets to music silent films like Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera, and Vsevolod Pudovkin Chess Fever.

Others

Catherine Delaunay played with Daniel Goyone, Claude Tchamitchian, Serge Lazarevitch, Lucia Reccio, Denis Chancerel, Philippe Botta, Archimusic, Dave Burrell, Takayuki Kato, Nobuyoshi Ino, Yuri Kusetsov, Vladimir Volkoff, Bruno Tocanne...

Discography