Rémy Yulzari

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Rémy Yulzari
Remy Yulzari double bass Rémy Yulzari in 2015
Background information
Born	(1982-06-29) June 29, 1982 Dole, France
Genres	Chamber music, World music like Klezmer, Tango, Gypsy-jazz, Latin music, French melodies Improvisation and Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, educator
Instruments	Double bass Melodica Diatonic button accordion Piano
Years active	fl. ca. 2002–present
Associated acts	Yulzari Quartet, Duo Lev-Yulzari, Trio Klezele, Quintette Monsolo
Website	http://yulzari.com

Rémy Yulzari is a double bass player, composer and educator. He graduated in New-York from the Juilliard School and in Paris from the CNSM (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris) and has enjoyed a prolific career as both a soloist performing with musicians around the world and a recording artist.

Yulzari is known for his innovative use of the double bass as a soloist, and his explorations of the sounds it can produce. His compositions and arrangements cross over different genres: the refinement of classical music, the energy of world music and the spontaneity of improvisation.

In addition to playing his own arrangements of the standard classical Chamber music repertoire, he has played a wide variety of folk world music such as, but not only, Klezmer, Tango, Gypsy-jazz, Latin music and French melodies.

Early life and education

Rémy first joined the National Music School in accordion, violin, piano, composition and musical analysis. He finished the nine-year curriculum in four years. At age 18, he continued violin studies at Ecole Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne, and simultaneously began studying the double bass at the Lyon Conservatoire National de Région.

Yulzari then chose to focus on the double bass. He was awarded a “Premier Prix” in double bass from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

On double bass, he has worked with Eugene Levinson, Bernard Cazauran, Thomas Martin, Bozo Paradzik and Tony Araque. He has also studied orchestration with Guillaume Connesson, composition with Alain Weber and conducting with Nicolas Brochot.

Mr. Yulzari is the first ever double bassist to be invited to join The Juilliard School’s Artist Diploma program. Two international soloists only are admitted to the program every year. "The Artist Diploma in Music Performance is a two-year program for the few highly gifted and experienced performers at the post-master’s level [...] who possess the ability and determination to realize their talent in the contemporary world".

Rémy also earned a Master of Education (Certificat d’Aptitude) from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon.

Career

Performances and compositions

Mr. Yulzari has performed in France, Great Britain, United States, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Spain, Russia, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Lithuania and Serbia, including the Taiwan National Concert Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, or Köln, Luxembourg and Ekaterinburg Philharmonic Halls. Music festivals credits include the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Festival de Prades Pablo Casals, Rencontres Internationales Musicales des Graves or the Festival du Périgord Noir to name a few.

Rémy Yulzari is the leader of several ensembles dedicated to various musical genres:

• the Yulzari Quartet, for which Mr Yulzari composed a repertoire mixing Klezmer, classical music and improvisation, with drummer Xavier Desandre, accordionist Yannick Lopes and Azerbaijani clarinetist Seddam Novruzbeyov;
• the Lev-Yulzari duo for which Yulzari arranged Spanish, Latin and Mediterranean repertoire. Trumpet player Frank London and percussionist John Hadfield occasionally join the duo;
• Yulzari's Three Voices with Argentinian bandoneonist Victor Hugo Villena and Opera singer Xenia d'Ambrosio;
• the Klezele Trio (performing throughout Europe);
• a duo with Ukrainian pianist Yegor Shevtsov playing an innovative program around French Melodies;
• the Olam Trio (with Israeli clarinetist Moran Katz and Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco);
• and the former Quintette Monsolo (2006-2009; classical string quintet).

Yulzari was also a founding member of

• a trio with Grammy Award- winning violinist Lisa Gutkin from The Klezmatics and world-renown tsimblist Pete Rushefsky (currently performing with Itzkhak Perlman on his program “Rejoice”)
• the Ioan Streba Trio (gypsy-jazz)
• The Tangotrio with Argentinian bandoneoinist Victor Hugo Villena .

He regularly collaborated with electronic music DJ Nicolas Jaar who sought after him for his improvisations, [1] on Tango projects with Argentinian pianist Emilio Solla, studied with with Ignacio Varchausky, on an African music repertoire with Boubacar Kafando (Kora and N’goni player from Burkina Faso) and explored a duo with Indian sitar player Hindol Deb. In 2016, blues singer Ala.ni asked him to perform with her, including an improvised duet at the Theatre du Chatelet.

Rémy Yulzari is known for setting-up ad-hoc thematical programmes such as his arrangements of Debussy's work about childhood ,

Teaching career

Rémy Yulzari has been invited to teach masterclasses for double bass, chamber music and klezmer music in Japan, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Israel, and throughout France.

He teaches improvisation at the Pole Superieur Paris Boulogne(equivalent of the CNSMDP) taking over the class from Ibrahim Maalouf, improvisation and classical double-bass at the historical regional conservatory of Orleans

Playing style

Double bassist and composer Rémy Yulzari is reinventing the role of the double bass in solo and collaborative settings, and his explorations of the sounds it can produce. His compositions and arrangements cross over a wide range of musical styles: the subtlety of classical music, the groove of world music and the spontaneity of improvisation.

In addition to playing his own arrangements of the standard classical Chamber music repertoire, he has played a wide variety of folk world music such as, but not only, Klezmer, Tango, Gypsy-jazz, Latin music and French melodies.

Yulzari uses the double-bass to recreate the human voice, or other instruments such as the oud, the shakuachi, or percussions. He also frequently performs on the accordion, melodica and piano.

Notable in Yulzari's style is the sense of humour displayed both in his music and when addressing the audience in his performances.

“The bowed lines of the double-bass sigh like a human voice, yearning. The textures and timbres that come out of the instruments are as rich and full as those of a much larger ensemble. It is, quite simply, an enchantingly beautiful sound.” - George Robinson, for the Jewish Week (October 2014)

“[Yulzari} played superbly (...) what I heard impressed me a great deal. The programming was also excellent - a hard thing to do for the solo bass.” - John Corigliano (February 2013)

“Mr. Yulzari, thank you for the very musical evening.” - Ron Carter (January 2013)

"Trillo closed the concert with (...) two imaginative, painterly scores by its bassist, Remy Yulzari" - Allan Kozinn, for the New York Times (August 2012)

“Everything played has such a distinctively intimate flavor, all highly evocative in mood and color (...). You are a model of what the creative performer should be all about.” - Robert McDonald (December 2012)

“Mr Rémy Yulzari is a serious and talented double bassist, always purchasing higher musical goals as composer, musical researches and new musics.” - Thierry Barbé (November 2010)

“In my career as a musician and educator, I have found that very rarely does a musician come along who possesses the musical and technical skills (and more importantly, the maturity and ambition) to become a leader in the field. I believe Rémy is one of those individuals. Rémy [displays] immense talent, a natural musicianship, and an unwavering enthusiasm for the double bass. - Eugene Levinson (July 2010)

“(...) I was impressed about his musical and instrumental skills as well as his sense of organization; He found a string quintet, which he managed, with which he won several international competitions and perform in many concerts he found in France and abroad. Rémy is in permanent research of original repertoire. Thanks to him I discovered many unknown and very interesting chamber music pieces which I was also happy to play with him.” - Daria Hovora (February 2010)'.

Instrument

Mr. Yulzari plays a custom designed "B21" double bass made by French luthier Patrick Charton. Patrick Charton was twice awarded the bronze medal at the Cremona Triennale lutherie competition for his double bass [2].

Notable compositions

Rémy’s compositions and arrangements have been described by The New York Times as “imaginative” and “painterly” and are now published by Editions Combre.

Mr. Yulzari wrote the soundtrack for the French film Aux Marches du Palais, directed by Bastien Ferré.

His composition Errance, for double bass and piano was the required competition performance piece in the French double bass competition “Bass'2008.

In 2016, he was commissioned Composer in Residence for the Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves, where his piece Hommage à A. Ginastera for flute, harp, violin, guitar and doublebass was created.

Media appearances

Yulzari is frequently invited on radio broadcasts, including Radio France’s “Le Cabaret Classique,” with host Jean-François Zygel, as well as on “La Cour des Grands,” France Musique , Radio Judaica's “Klezmer Attitude,” and on Sirius XM’s Seth Speaks with host Seth Rudetsky.

In 2016, Yulzari was asked to perform with blues singer Ala.ni on Arte TV and Canal+.

He also appears on-screen as a double bassist in L’autre Dumas (Dumas), a 2010 French period film directed by Safy Nebbou about Alexandre Dumas, starring Gérard Depardieu.

Personal life

Yulzari is married and the couple has one son.

Selected Discography

• 2014 L’Enigme Eternelle, Jewish Travels with my double bass - solo album
• 2014 Azafea, a Spanish Odyssey with his duo Lev-Yulzari, featuring guest artists Frank London and John Hadfield
• 2009 Mosaique (traditional and classical Jewish music) Klezele Trio
• 2009 Georges Onslow, Quintette op. 38 "La Balle", Quintette op. 70 with Quintette Monsolo on Label Polymnie
• 2008 Freylekh From Vladivostok (recorded live from their Russian tour along the Trans-Siberian Railway)
• 2008 Jean-Sebastian Bach, Concertos pour deux claviers with Quintette Monsolo on Label Polymnie.
• 2007 The soundtrack for the French film L’Empreinte de l'Ange (The Mark of an Angel) directed by Safy Nebbou with Quintette Monsolo

Awards and recognitions

• 2010-2012 Joseph F. McCrindle Scholarship for the Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School of Music, New-York
• 2009 Prize “Déclic” of Culturesfrance
• 2008 SPEDIDAM scholarship
• 2008 1st prize from the Verona International Chamber Music Competition
• 2007 Grand prix of chamber music during the international forum in Normandy
• 2007 3rd prize and Prix d'interprétation during the international chamber music competition of Illzach
• 2004 3rd prize during the conducting competition in Rouvres

External links

• Official Website
• Official Youtube Channel
• Rémy Yulzari at AllMusic

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