Olivier also becomes initiated into saxophone and piano. He improves his knowledges in harmonica on the occasion of workshops, private lessons, and music academy where he gets his degree in 1993. His teachers were Jacques Pelzer, Jean-Pierre Catoul, Pirly Zurstrassen, Fabien Degryse, Erwin Vann, Pierre Vaiana, Steve Houben, Richard Rousselet, Guy Cabay, Arnould Massart, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse and Michel Hatzi .
He records an album "It's boogie time" in 2000 with The
Boogie Workers.
Olivier devotes to composition
in order to offer a new music inspired by the ECM mood, traditional,
folk, jazz and classical music.
Upanishads born with Philippe
Libois (P), Juan Campos (Dm), Eric Fusillier
(Bs) and Marc Frankinet (Tp). In July 2004 they played
in the Montreux Jazz Festival .
Based in Brussels since
December 2001, Olivier leads an acoustic trio "Sheng" with
Philippe Malfeyt (lute & theorbo) and Johan De
Baedts (perc) to play an intimist music.
Since 2002, he's also a member of the blues-rock group " Burning Plague III ".
Olivier introduce his harmonica in the meeting's music in a duo with Abid El Bahri (Ud and Sentir), O'Kad (mixed of Gnawa and occidental music) and with " Afromandinka ".
In 2004, he's guest in the second album of " Luthomania "
with Sigrid Vandenbogaerde, Steve Houben and Gwenaël Micault .
In October 2003-2004, he makes a tour in Belgium with the French group " Mes souliers sont rouges ".
His meeting with Denys Lefrançois started a duo of French songs.
2006 Start a niew project of flamenco music. El trio MUDANZA with Michel Gillain (g) Marta Flendrig (pc)
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