Biography
Lisa Cat-Berro is a young saxophonist whose name is today in the landscape of French jazz. She is also a composer and arranger. After studying literature (hypokhâgne Khâgne and the Lycée Henri IV), she joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she graduated in 2007. For 10 years, she has built a solid experience in the world of jazz, but also in world music or the performing arts. She performs with his own quartet, a repertoire of original compositions where it is accompanied by very active musicians of the jazz scene, drummer Nicolas Larmignat, guitarist Julien and Stéphane Omé Decolly bass.
She is currently preparing a disc with this training, with the support of the National Theatre "The Passageway" at La Rochelle, and Gaya label productions. (Released in 2012). It has been heard in the Lady Rhoda Scott Quartet with Sophie and Julie Saury Alour in the club in Paris or in the biggest festivals (Jazz in Vienna in 2011). A disc, "Live at Sunset" was published in 2008 on the label e Must Records, and the group won the Django d'or 2011 live performances. Side of the song and the performing arts, she accompanied François Morel in the show "In the evening, Lions ... "Since 2010, a tour over 120 dates across France. She has also worked with Marc Jolivet for his show "The Utopitre" from 2001 to 2003, as well as Sophie Forte and Emmanuel Donzella.
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She has always been fascinated by African music and world music. She founded the group in 2011 Ayoka with African and Caribbean musicians, and plays for many years in the group of women Rumbanana salsa, which toured France for over 10 years. It supports the Cameroonian drummer Brice Wassy musician reference in the world of African music during concerts at New Morning, important scenes or abroad (Pan-African Festival in Algeria 2009). From 2009 to 2011, she participated in the show Umculowethu (young people) with Dizu Plaatjies, a musician from South Africa and pianist Armel Dupas (Creation Theatre Antoine Vitez in Ivry-sur-Seine).
His forays into the world of improvised music have earned him play with Ia harpist Isabelle Olivier and trombonist Yves Robert. In parallel to these activities, in order of transmission and to create social ties between artists and young people in difficulty, she has worked since 2007 with the assocation "The Small Things", which aims to discover music, dance and theater for young college students difficult in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. ..
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