Komponistin & Klavier
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At the age of four, Anne-Gabriel Debaecker began taking lessons from Maurice Martenot, the inventor of the ondes Martenot. After enrolling at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, she graduated with a state-recognised degree in architecture and became a partner in the Groupe AURA architectural cooperative. Wanting not only to understand and design space, but also to hear its music and resonances, she worked with M. Villarroel and became a pianist with the Féminin Jazz Band and the jazz tentet ANACAONA. Together with C. de Rougement, she taught music to the dancers of Free Dance Song at the Cité Universitaire Internationale. She completed her bachelor's degree in musicology at the University of Paris VIII with Marc Battier and Daniel Charles.
She works with L. and M. Petrucciani as well as with J.-F. Jenny-Clarke. As a jazz teacher at the Département Conservatory in Pantin near Paris, she has been coordinating the jazz department since 1993. This was followed by compositions and residencies as composer-in-residence, internships and educational work with O. Sens, G. Orti, G. Demasure, E. Barret, G. Tamisier and P. Mace, in Collectif jazz 93, Jazz en scène, Mission jazz 93 du Conseil Général 93, as well as recordings on CD – later with R. Nathanson and H. Poulsen on the occasion of the musical events at the Banlieues Bleues festival at the Dynamo in Pantin.
Since completing her architecture studies, Debaecker has been developing improvisational materials and composing the repertoire (in which she herself plays the piano part) for the Volutes Quintet (a jazz quintet with R. Taddei, G. Figlionlos, R. Molinier, X. Crochet – later with C. Baretto and S. Foucher). At the same time, she founded the publishing house Outre Mesure with C. Fabre, M. Goldberg and P. Baudouin. She completed her music studies at the University of Reims with a thesis on improvisation and electroacoustic arrangement in concert practice under the supervision of J.-M. Chouvel.
Together with composer and pianist Patrick Defossez, she founded the association 2d’Lyres . She then wrote and performed electroacoustic music for the techniscénies at Reims Cathedral – Fenêtres pour Jeanne for Clovis , Musique des sources , Conte des mille et une notes , 2000 Brèves pour l’an 2000 , Le septuor de Namurophones , Le Présent oublié . Subsequently, 2d’Lyres receives invitations to Pontarlier (on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture), to Angers for a musical city tour, to Nantes and to Bayonne, among other places.
Debaecker loves to use ‘live sculpture’ to shape the colours and plasticity of electroacoustic sounds: in improvised dialogue with the black and white of the piano in Toiles de jazz jazz de toiles, S'envol'l'ut en cent volutes (with O. Lété, C. Lété, T. de Pourquery, P. Benech, P. Gisselman, C. Whipple), then in the quartet L’Échappée intérieure (with A. Lazennec, J.-F. Piette, J.-L. Pommier and G. Dommartin) and in the duo Autres Voix de Piano with Patrick Defossez.
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