Nicolas Maiofiss

Nicolas Maiofiss
envoyé par stringsjazzer NICOLAS MAIOFISS, Violin, Composition:He started playing the violin at 8 years old in Paris. After classical studies at the conservatoire, he studied with both the American saxophonist Brad Wheeler and the English pianist Pete Churchill. He played at the festival “banlieues bleues” at the Cité de la Musique, within the George Russell’s living orchestra and participated to the recording of his album « it’s about time » (label bleu); he played at the “Hot Brass”, at the “Auditorium Châtelet” and at” the New Morning” siding with Khalil Chahine,and for several months , toured in Europe with Vanessa Mae. In 1997 He established himself in London for more than 5 years and played in jazz clubs or recorded along with: Tony Cofi ,Seb Rochford, Ben Davis, Tom Skinner,Leon Greening, Sean Hargreaves ,Ben Hazelton, , Tim Lapthorn, Stewart Ritchie, Darren Moore, Karim Merchant, Finn Peters, Quentin Colins, the singer Malia, , Pete Wareham, Jim Mullen, Allan Weekes,Brian Edwards, Gilad Atzmon,Don Wheler,Gene Calderazzo, Renato D’aiello, Phil Lee etc ... In 2003 he came back to Paris and played with the band Nakodjé, from Senegal, Stéphane Belmondo,Tam De Villiers, Stéphan Carraci ,Max Fougères, Arnaud Lechantre,Vincent Lafont, JD Botta,Yoni Zelnick,David Georgellet ... recorded for Louis Beaudoin "work in progress"( Max delpierre,Matthieu Jerome ...), Jean Philippe Crespin and Luis Carlos De Paula (« Paris-Sao Paulo »), with South quartet (Sylvain Ghio & Simon Tailleu & Matt Rosso)..., and created in November 2003 the quartet NO LOGO (with drummer Donald Kontomanou, & the Réchard brothers). Since 2004 He has played in festivals and venues such as « Festival Jazz sous les pommiers » in Coutances, Festival de Bourges, Atrium de Chaville, Theatres of Granville, Caen, Alençon, Sunside jazz clubs, Baiser sale, Crescent jazz club, …etc.. He is also prize winner at the Sunside trophies 2005 (prize of composition) . In 2007, release of a new album with NO LOGO ”Off the cuff" .IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT ME DIRECTLY : [email protected]