FRIDAY November 02 at 8PM

Improvesation and Composition a musical performance
duration : 20 minutes approx.

GUEST ARTIST

Eugénie Kuffler

born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, emigrated to Paris in 1967 where she studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Max Deutsch and Henri Dutilleux, flûte with Alain Marion and electro-acoustical music at the GRM. In 1970 she joined the GERM, a composer-performer collective; in 1973 Philippe Drogoz and she founded 010 an avant-garde cabaret ensemble. In 1980 she created the solo tryptic icara night: icara or the flight inward, iris, from moon to water, a piece which continues to orient her work. She creates radio works for France Culture – J/E, adapted from The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig, codirected with Syn Guérin ; the ecstatic spiral notebooks. In 1995 Nathalie Braux, Aldridge Hansberry, Hélène Bass, Francine Mercier and she founded the composer-performer collective Hot Chills and played together until 2012. In 2000 she founded Conexión Habana, a troop of 8 Cubain dancers, musicians and comedians plus herself and through 2007, premiered 6 chapters of Etno Poesía Cuba in Havana. Currently she improvises with whoever’s out there and is preparing a music-theater solo – Survival Technics.

Eugenie Kuffler

Christine Chardonnier

A classical formation in different Conservatories – flute, theory, harmony, analysis and a musicology cursus at Sorbonne University. And then, depending on encounters, a musical journey going from the classical orchestra (Alfred Loewenguth, Ernst Schelle, Sergui Celibidache), to jazz (The Edim School with Bruno Whillhem, Daniel Beaussier, Bob Revel…) to salsa, to contempory music (Philippe Drogoz, « l’Armucom », « l’instant donné »).
And to broaden her horizons – dance and sensorial movement (Martha Rodezno), accordion, piano, clown (Vincent Rouche, Françoise Simon…); collaborations with dancers (Compagnie Cécile Berrebi), poets (accompanying readings at l’Harmattan), comedians (le kaléidoscope bleu).
She teaches and performs regularly.
Improvisation encompasses these varied interests – the love of sound, of instantaneous expression, of unexpected encounters, of shared and renewed exploration at every moment.

Eugenie Kuffler