Claudine Simon is a pianist, artist, improviser and performer. She is developing a sound creation work that attempts to experiment, by hybridizing it, with the construction and capacities of her instrument.
Trained at the CNSMD in Paris with Jean-François Heisser and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, she has performed as a soloist or chamber musician at the Lyon Opera, La Roque d'Anthéron, the Opéra-Comique, the Cité de la Musique, the Tautavel and Aix-en-Provence festivals, as well as abroad (tours in India, China, Europe, etc.).
At the same time, her creative work focuses on the conception of performances that allow her to question her relationship with the instrument. In 2021, she conceived Pianomachine, a device that transforms the piano's lutherie and allows her to open up a new playing space inside the instrument.
Elise Dabrowski : vocals, double bass & Claudine Simon : prepared piano. “RISS is the name of this duo. RISS as in fault or crack: the fault that lets the air in and circulates and allows communication between many musical worlds. The two musicians do not want to settle on one approach to music and […]
“Phase Music” brings together musicians and visual artists around American minimalist repetitive music. This performance gives us access to another type of listening, it allows us to follow the effects of sound and to glimpse its “magical” power. A state of auditory fascination results from the principles of insensitive transformations at work in the pieces […]
An intellectual and subversive review, which handles satire and black humor in a grating and poetic atmosphere inspired by the Berlin cabaret of pre-war. An authentic cabaret of today, the result of a collective work guided by Pierre Meunier, the show’s leader, from the proposals of the five musicians, the conductor, the singer and an […]
Once upon a time is an instrumental theater show where the music, through its dramatic dimension and its gestures, takes on a humorous, critical, parodic or esoteric character… On the menu: Living-room music for percussion and “discussion quartet” which, like Satie’s furniture music, suspends time and can be tasted like a snapshot; then a composition […]