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Catherine Smet is a classical and jazz pianist.

She began her classical studies at the conservatories of Brussels and Antwerp and studied alongside Arnould Massart, Debrulle Michel Fabrizio Cassol and Barre Phillips. She was part of groups with different musical styles, ranging from improvised music or contemporary jazz to African and Latin music that she studied in Buenos Aires and Cuba among other places.

Her music is a reflection of her amazing career, made of meetings and shimmering discoveries, carrying the colours and rhythms of the cultures she loves to dissect not without a certain malice. Her artistic journey reflects her desire to explore the possibilities for integrating composition and improvisation by composing for various groups and seeking a common material where classical, contemporary, jazz and tango can meet.

She appeared in different bands of various trends in performances or playing improvised music with musicians such as Michael Moore, Peter Jaqmain or Bart Maris.

In the alternative rockscene she played with Guy Segers and Michel Delville and went on a European tour with the Rythmiss, an AfroCuban percussion band.

In 2015 she released her first auto-produced album ‘IluSioneS’ (with the support of Sabam for Culture 2015) with 12 compositions for piano solo.

Since 2010, she is participating in a tango jazz quartet, Rueda Libre, for which she composes and performs currently in concert. With Benoit Leseure (violin), Ignaas Vermeire (bass) and Patrick van Keirsbilck (bandoneon).

For the last 10 years, she has also been part of the Tango 02 sextet for which she is composing. They continue to perform in Belgium and abroad.

In the same vein, she collaborates with the Mexican singer Silvia Abalos, with whom she created the Cantango, a tango jazz group.

They released their first album "Imaginar" in 2012, where they invite, inter alia, Gerardo Agnese (bandoneon) and Juan Carlos Caceres (voice, piano, composition).

Between 2006 and 2008, it’s the adventure Urbango alongside Eduardo Barro,

Argentinian singer and Patrick Van Keirsbilck (bandoneon). This trio will release two albums, "Urbango" and "Aires de Dos Orillas". With them, Catherine Smet records and plays for The World is a Village, then participates in the South Cape Festival in Mons in 2007.

Between 2004 and 2005 she founded Unlimited Purzelbaum with the singer Anja Kowalski. The duo released an album, "DÖ", and they were headlining at the Gaume Festival the following year.

She also worked with choreographer Félicette Chazerand for whom she composed the music for the show "Between Bailados Pasos" which is produced in Latin America.

In 2002, she released a jazz quartet album "Solar Conversations".

In 1998, she released her first solo piano album, "The ninth hour of the day" with her own compositions.

Discography :

2015 « Ilusiones » - Piano solo – auto-produce with the support of Sabam for culture 2015

2012 « Imaginar » - With Silvia Abalos – El Greco Production

2008 « Aires de dos Orillas » - Urbango – Urbango Production

2007 « Urbango » - Argentinian music Trio – Urbango Production

2005 « Dô » - Duo with the Jazz singer Anja Kowalski – AZ Production

2002 « Conversations Solaires » - Quartet Jazz – Crépuscule

1998 « La Neuvième Heure du Jour » - Piano solo – Crépuscule – PIAS

www.soundcloud.com/catherinesmet

19/03
2017
17:00

Catherine Smet Solo Piano

Catherine Smet, piano

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Catherine Smet Solo Piano

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