Dominique Pifarély

Dominique Pifarély

Pifarély live at Jazz Club Unterfahrt, Munich, 7 October 2010
Background information
Born

1957 (age 58–59)


Bègles, France

Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, music conductor
Instruments Violin
Labels ECM, Poros éditions
Associated acts Aki Takase La Planète
Andreas Willers Octet
Celea-Couturier Group
La Bande A Badault
Louis Sclavis Quintet
Louis Sclavis Septet
Louis Sclavis Sextet
Mike Westbrook Orchestra
Multicolor Feeling Fanfare
Dominique Pifarély Quartet
Website pifarely.net

Dominique Pifarély (born 1957) is a French jazz violinist. He is known as a modernizer who works in avant-garde jazz, but he has also worked in post-bop and other contexts.

Career

Pifarély was born in Bègles. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and guitarist Gérard Marais as a trio. In the 1980s he began leading his own bands, as can be heard on the recording Insula Dulcamara (1988) and Oblique (1992).

Pifarély modernized jazz violin, combining extraordinary technical skills with an inclusive idea of music-making. He has been soon very in-demand as a straight jazz player, but was soon in some of the more adventurous groups in Europe, too, including Mike Westbrook's band (On Dukes' Birthday, hatART) and the Vienna Art Orchestra.

In 1985, Pifarély started to work with reedist Louis Sclavis and in 1992, they formed the Sclavis/Pifarély Acoustic Quartet, featuring guitarist Marc Ducret and bassist Bruno Chevillon, and recorded for ECM. In the late 1990s, he started a duo work with pianist François Couturier, and they recorded a prominent album (Poros, ECM, 1997).

Dominique Pifarély is now focusing on different personal projects. Impromptu is a development of the collaboration with François Couturier, adding counter tenor Dominique Visse and a work on contemporary poetry. He also initiated numerous text/music experiences with French writer François Bon and actors Violaine Schwartz and Pierre Baux. The Dédales ensemble is an acoustic nine piece band. He founded in 2007 a trio with keyboard player Julien Padovani and drummer Eric Groleau.

In his mature style, the classical violin tradition and the swing lessons combine with a contemporary European sonic exploration ; his technical mastery and quick imagination allow him to move seamlessly between these worlds.

He regularly performs in whole Europe, and has been touring in the US, Canada, Japan, India, Middle East, Latin America and Africa.[1]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

As sideman

With Denis Badault
With Tim Berne
With Safi Boutella
With Hugo Carvalhais
With Jean-Paul Celea and François Couturier
With François Corneloup
With Vincent Courtois
With Dominique Cravic
With Marc Ducret
With Rabih Abou Khalil
With Didier Levallet Swing String System
With Eddy Louiss
With Gérard Marais
With Michele Rabbia and Stefano Battaglia
With Louis Sclavis
With Mike Westbrook
With Andreas Willers

Notes

  1. ↑ All Music
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