Performing

My musical activity started as a self taught electric bass player. I played with rock'n'roll bands while at high school, then I discovered jazz: when I was twenty I decided to learn to play the double bass. As there was no jazz bass teacher in my town's conservatory, I applied for classical double bass. And that's how I discovered classical music and started to play in orchestras. At the same moment, folk and world music bands started to hire me as my status switched from “electric” to “acoustic" player. More or less at the same time, a lutist friend of mine made me listen to some early music CDs. And that's I discovered early music. In some way I never left anything behind.

Beside freelancing with several baroque ensembles, jazz combos and pursuing some personal projects, I'm currently part of the Fanfareduloup Orchestra, a pool of instrumentalists / composers / improvisers, and of Geneva Camerata, a dynamic chamber orchestra at ease with contemporary music as well as with baroque music on period instruments.

Teaching

I started teaching as soon as I knew about the bass two or three things more than my schoolmates, when I was fourteen. Since then I never stopped. During all these years, the more I discovered about how to improve my playing, the more my passion for instrumental teaching grew.

I taught classical double bass from 2005 to 2009 at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole as assistant of Alberto Bocini. Since 2011 I've been teaching                                                           classical double bass at the Conservatoire Populaire de musique, danse et théâtre in Geneva. I have been invited since 2012 to give introductory courses about historical instruments for modern double bass players at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.

Researching

I took quite seriously my engagement in early music from the very beginning. The main question was: what is a baroque double bass? I started exploring studies and sources, thus understanding that there was no simple answer to my question. I started playing different instruments and bows for different repertoires, and my passion for joining historical research and practical musicianship eventually resulted in an engagement as assistant researcher at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, for two projects axed on nineteenth century double bass practices. My first contribution to this subject has been  published in the april 2014 issue of Ad Parnassum - A journal of XVIII and XIX century instrumental music.

Composing and arranging

This is an activity I started more recently. I regularly compose music for the Fanfareduloup Orchestra, as all the other members of this group, and I composed/arranged music for several Geneva Camerata's concerts (From Mozart to Ellington and Pygmalion Blues with pianist Yaron Herman, performed among other venues at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2014; Destination Cuba with singer and percussionist Reinaldo "Flecha" Delgado; Let's swing! with pianist Jacky Terrasson, Paris-New York with pianist Stefano Bollani).