Biography
Briefly
Born in Porrentruy, Switzerland, June, 20th 1974, father of two children, teacher in the association "Ton sur Ton" in La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), Lucien Dubuis is a musician and composer in several bands of avant-garde Jazz and improvised music.
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Instruments
Alto saxophone, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet.
Studies
French Gymnasium, Bienne (CH), Montreux Conservatory (CH), Jazz professional schedule.
Musical experiences
Lucien Dubuis has been an active musician in the jazz and improvised music scene for several years. He also performed theater music, film music and "Chanson francophone".
He is representant of the Conservatory of Montreux at IASJ (International association of School of Jazz) meeting in Sienna (IT), with Dave Liebman as president, 1997
He receives the music prize of the State of Bern (CH), 1998
He is also the Swiss representant of the European Jazz Youth Orchestra (In Europe) directed by Pierre Dorge, 1998.
Plays with Hans Koch, Martin Schütz and Christian Müller for the final of the Swiss National Expositon: Expo.02 in Bienne (CH), 2002.
Receives a composition order from Pro Helvetia, 2002.
Tour in Iran with his trio, 2003
Event for the Opening of the "Swiss Diagonal Festival" and other concerts in Switzerland with the guitar player Marc Ribot (New York) as guest, 2005.
Tours in Colombia, Bolivia and Poland with his trio, 2005
Records a triple album as a tribute to Swiss writers Francis Giauque and Hugues Richard (Voix d'Ici), 2005.
Tour and record with "La Bouillie d'Heidi", tribute project to Le Corbusier by Christophe Studer with Linda Sharrock (voc), Christophe Studer (keys), Daniel Erdmann (ts & bs), Lucien Dubuis (bcl & cbcl), Calle Callima (guit), Lionel Friedli (dr), Diane Labrosse (samp & el).
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