{"id":7221,"date":"2018-09-19T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onj.org\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:24:35","slug":"frederic-maurin-next-artistic-director-%e2%80%a8of-the-onj-de-lorchestre-national-de-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onj.org\/en\/frederic-maurin-next-artistic-director-%e2%80%a8of-the-onj-de-lorchestre-national-de-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin
next Artistic Director \u2028of the ONJ
the Orchestre National de Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitarist and composer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin has been appointed Artistic Director of the ONJ for the next four years. His project follows that of Olivier Benoit, whose ONJ mandate ends in December 2018.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last June 29th<\/sup> at a meeting of the ONJ Council, a jury equally representing Council members, and open to other personalities from cultural spheres, voted in favour of the candidacy of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin.<\/span><\/p>\n

In accordance with the requirements specified by the ONJ, the new Artistic Director had conceived an ambitious, wide-ranging, artistic and cultural project for the orchestra, whose duty it is, through an active policy of commissioned and collaborative works, to represent the creative diversity of today’s music and bring a particular focus to different generations and the parity between men and women. The project was also to involve several disciplines, with each programme favouring experiments in forms and formats, by means of an orchestra that could vary in size and would attach itself strongly to regional aspects, thanks to referential venues and diverse associated structures. The new Artistic Director’s project would thereby achieve works that integrated musical creation and education, together with its diffusion, at artistic and cultural levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

The details and new orientations of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin’s project will be presented in the autumn of 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin
\n<\/strong>As a guitarist reared to the sound of Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson or Frank Zappa, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin quickly abandoned a career as an engineer to devote himself entirely to music, pursuing courses in jazz and classical composition in parallel.<\/p>\n

For 14 years Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric has composed and conducted the repertoire of Ping Machine, a 15-piece music ensemble that is today unanimously recognized as a reference on the new jazz scene in Europe. With this ensemble, he has developed singular music coming from an abundant and diverse imagination. Ping Machine is a state-regulated ensemble \u2014 through CERNI and DRAC \u00cele-de-France\/Ministry of Culture \u2014 with the support of SACEM, SPEDIDAM, ADAMI and the Region \u00cele-de-France.
\nLargely influenced by musicians and composers ranging from Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti to Steve Coleman, not to mention Charles Mingus, Meshuggah and G\u00e9rard Grisey, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin has always endeavoured, in the extreme precision of his music writing \u2014 which questions not only the musical language but also the forms usually employed in jazz and other improvised music \u2014 to offer works whose core preserves an energy and generosity that allow a collective dive into a parallel world.<\/p>\n

Apart from composing, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maurin is also a guitarist who has appeared in a number of projects as a sideman, and for many years he has chosen to work closely with collectives in order to better the conditions in which the music he champions can achieve wider recognition. Between 2011 and 2017, he was the President of the Grands Formats Federation representing artists who play music in large ensembles or formats, a Federation that today represents 57 professional orchestras and more than 1000 musicians spread throughout France.<\/p>\n

Photo \u00a9\u00a0Catherine Ledrux<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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