Vincent Ghilbert

Vincent Ghilbert was born in Belgium on the 9th October 1978.

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His career has started with the study of classical music. Later on, he practices other musical genres among bands of jazz, jazz-rock, rock, hip-hop, chanson française, and Scandinavian folk.

In the meantime he has graduated from a business school.

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He learned with Dominique Sottiaux, Alfred Jacquet, Didier Noé, Pascal Schmidt, Pierre Vaïana, Bart Defoort, and then at the Brussels Conservatoire with Steve Houben, Phil Abraham, Guy Cabay, Pirly Zurstrassen, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, John Ruocco, Jeroen Van Herzele, Erwin Vann, Peter Hertmans, Kris Defoort, ...

At the same time, he has much interest in the associations field and he builds the agency MuseBoosting, which supports today more than sixty young Belgian musicians.

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He loves playing with excellent musicians, among which : Martin Daniel, Janos Bruneel, Daniel Duchateau, Olivier Louvel, Gilles Coquard, Philippe Mobers, Cédric Waeterschoot, Steev Cris, Jean Philippe Degheest, Alexandre Cavaliere, Lorenzo Di Maio, Thibault Hien, David Devrieze, Renaud Ghilbert, Benjamin Ramos, Jean Paul Estievenard, Cyrille de Haes, ...

In one group he plays the acoustic clarinet, in another one he makes his way with guitar pedals, he enjoys playing the percussions, keyboards, samplers, tenor saxophone…

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His current projects are :

"The Flying Fish Jumps", a current jazz quartet with Martin Daniel, Janos Bruneel, Daniel Duchateau (they play his compositions but also some of their contemporaries) 

"ZOOI", a free improvisation trio (clarinet, drums, electronica) with Jean-Philippe Degheest & Fractional 

"ERIS", a solo project of electronic programming 

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He also plays in "No Turns", a quintet of fusion-jazz-rock-world with Olivier Louvel (Manu Katché, Mike Manieri, Rick Margitza, Stéphane Huchard, Victor Lazlo, ...), Gilles Coquard (Biréli Lagrène, Eric Truffaz, Nilda Fernandez, Liane Foly, ...) /Janos Bruneel, Philippe Mobers (Toots Thielemans, P. Van Dormael, Nicolas Fiszman, Axelle Red, Maurane, Jane Birkin, Adamo, Michel Fugain, Khadja Nin Perry Rose, Marka, ...) and Steev Cris (Stéphane Martini, Jan DeHaas, Osvaldo Hernandez, Daniel Romeo, Eric Legnini, Magdalena Molosanu, ...).

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You might have seen him playing at the Brussels Jazz Marathon, Flagey, the Marni Theater, the Sounds jazz club, the Jazz Station, the Brussels Summer Festival (Eu'ritmix), St Jazz Ten Noode, etc.

His favorites are Prokofiev, Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc, Grieg, ... Mingus, Monk, Dolphy, Adderley, Zorhn, ... , Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zep, The Police/Sting, The Beatles 70's, Peter Gabriel, ... , Radiohead, Deus, Absynth Minded (hello brother), ... , Braque, Turner, Chagal, ... Vian, Sloterdijk, Houellebecq, Steiner, ...

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His hobbies are drawing, painting and sculpture…

His work in the agency MuseBoosting is composed of the development, the graphics and web design.

In comics he loves Trondheim.

His favorite magazines are Tracks (Arte) and Science & Vie.

He loves dismantling and reassembling electronic stuff.

He loves cooking everything and eating hot roasted chicken with his fingers...