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Tamia Valmont
Tamia Valmont also known as ''Tamia'' (born July 29, 1947) is a French composer and singer. Biography Tamia Valmont made her stage debut at the Châteauvallon Jazz Festival with Michel Portal, in France, in 1972. She took then part of various musical trends: improvised music, contemporary music, theater, and discovered affinity with extra-European music. She was commissioned in 1980 to perform solo at the Festival d'automne à Paris, Paris Festival d'Automne. On this occasion, she started using recording her voice successively on a multi-track tape to create what she called a "solo polyphony", a genre she would keep exploring in her career. In 1979 Tom Johnson (composer), Tom Johnson wrote an article about her in the Village Voice that lead to her first USA tour. In 1990 she was invited to perform in Japan by composer Toru Takemitsu at the Tokyo Festival. She collaborated with artists such as Pierre Favre (musician), Pierre Favre with whom she recorded 3 CDs. In 2009, the writer N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Portal
Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on 27 November 1935. His family was musical and there were several instruments in his house when he was growing up. His interest in jazz began after hearing it on the radio after World War II. He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris and conducting with Pierre Dervaux. Later life and career Portal "gained experience in light music with the bandleaders Henri Rossotti and (in Spain in 1958) Perez Prado, as well as with the drummer Benny Bennett (1960), Raymond Fonsèque (1963), Aimé Barelli, and, for many years, the singer Claude Nougaro". Portal co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art. During 1969, Portal played on a recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ''Aus den sieben Tagen''. Portal began scoring music for fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |