Career
During 2005-2017, Brice Catherin gave several hundreds of concerts and performances as a cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist in Europe, Japan, Russia, Iceland and Canada. He also composed about 80 works for soloists for large ensembles, ranging from ten minutes to ten hours duration. He premiered works he commissioned for solo cello or chamber ensembles from composers such as Dror Feiler, Christian Rosset, Evis Sammoutis, Patricia Bosshard, Baudoin de Jaer, Abby Swidler, Jacques Demierre, Arash Yazdani and Ludovic Thirvaudey.
He worked with artists from various backgrounds including dancers (Foofwa d’Imobilité, Corina Pia, Judith Desse), writers (Karelle Ménine, Cléa Chopard), actors (Delphine Rosay), and after works of movie directors (David Bestue and Marc Vives, David OReilly (artist)) and illustrators (Yuichi Yokoyama).
As a composer, Brice Catherin wrote more than 80 instrumental works with or without electronic means.
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