Raphaëlle Brochet

Born to musician parents, Raphaelle Brochet grew up in the world of jazz and studied dance, piano and jazz vocal in renowned conservatories in France. Attracted to the richness and profoundness of South Indian music, she moved to Paris to study with C. Zalay in the Institut de Musique Carnatique Nadopasana. She's since been going regularly to Madras, South India, to study with her Guru Sarada Thota, great vocalist and veena player. Her interest in Eastern classical music sent her to Teheran, where she started learning the Radif – traditional music of Iran – from Fariba Davudi, disciple of Shajarian, in 2005. Fond of rhythm, she’s practicing Solkattu – vocal percussion of South India – under the teaching of the great ghatam player Govindarajan in Madras and of David Nelson, renowned mridangam player in the US.......................................................... ............................................ Raphaelle Brochet worked with knowledgeable musicians. At the age of 17, she met the piano player Floris Nico-Bunink, who mainly played with Mingus and Billy Holliday. Raphaelle and Floris recorded an album in Holland under the label Daybreak and performed at the 1999 Bimhuis Festival in Amsterdam. She also worked with astonishing musicians like Arnaud Fuste-Lambezat (piano), Shawn Mativetsky (tabla), Alexi David (doublebass), Babak Towhidi (setar), Lionel Pezzano (setar, sitar, samples) and many others. ............................................................ ................................................. After finishing her Jazz Degree in the Conservatory of Nantes in 2006, she received the scholarship Alma-Mater and joined UdeM’s Jazz Performance Program in Montreal. To have a better understanding of the music traditions she works with, she did a masters in Anthropology in Paris Sorbonne and is now enrolled in a MA of Ethnomusicology in Wesleyan University, focusing on South Indian music, under the tutorial of Davis Nelson and B.Balusubrahmaniyan. In addition to her research on Jazz, Carnatic and Persian music, she is composing for different musical projects, like KeyGen in Montreal (with L.Pezzano) and KrsThal in NYC (with A.Shragge and A.David) and is regularly performing in Canada, India and the United States. ............................................................ ....................................................Learning different musical traditions lead you to a kind of universal language, a sort of common syntax that use all kinds of vocabularies but that carries on the same message. A message of love. Because finally, the real thing that really matters....is the intention, what is transmitted through music... It gives a soul to the music and reaches people's heart... This is just that simple. Putting in every sound all the love and tenderness we have been carrying for all those years....and there is no need to save any piece of it; love is the only thing that does not reduce when one shares it. It's all the contrary. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- href= ! ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------