Yann Lecollaire

Appears on:

• JORDI CASSAGNE BARBASTELLE
  Vestige Étésien

Photo: Rémi Hostekind

Born in 1978, Yann Lecollaire graduated from the Conservatoire d’Avignon in clarinet and jazz. After taking workshops with Guillaume Orti, Tcha Limberger and Annette Van De Gorn, he composed and recorded 2 albums with the group Fonetic and played in Le Sens De La Marche, Marc Ducret’s large ensemble.

Since 2008, he has lived and worked in Brussels, where he collaborates with various artists: he composed and performed in 21 Moineaux with singer Sarah Klenes, a project inspired by the poems of William Blake. He performed in the dance piece Balansé, by Martinican dancer and choreographer Agnès Dru, in France, Belgium and Romania. He took part in the electroacoustic project Quadrilatère, with Laurent Estoppey, Ikue Mori and John Menoud, and played with Mangalam, a contemporary music ensemble. He is the composer and leader of the group Mû and a member of the Soundpainting Matters collective.

He also composes and records a lot of music for the cinema (short and feature films, festivals) and the theatre: original music for “La bataille de l’eau noire”, Benjamin Hennot’s “Face book”, a performance directed by Fabien Dariel at the VRAC (Brussels) and “Petite narration”, a play by Polish author Wojtek Ziemilski, premiered at the Bellone (Brussels). He took part in the creation of “88 constellations”, a play by Thomas Turine, premiered at La Balsamine (Brussels) and created the music for a show at ESAC (École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque).