Keep in touch Florian Coutet

• 1Vocalise en forme de Habanera02:50
• 2I.05:27
• 3II.03:10
• 4III.04:38
• 5Prayer from Jewish Life No. 103:46
• 6I. Intrada02:18
• 7II. Jazz Walk02:51
• 8III. Euphony04:04
• 9IV. Caccia01:38
• 10V. Fanfare-March02:28
• 11Saturnalis18:06
• 12Café 193007:01
• 13I. Adagio - Allegro molto05:34
• 14II. Scherzo (Allegro vivo)02:16
• 15III. Andante cantabile04:28
• 16IV. Allegro con spirito03:51
• Total Runtime01:14:26

Info for Keep in touch

It is rare to see that instrument taking centre stage. It is nevertheless the goal of tuba player Florian Coutet who recorded his debut album „Keep in touch“ to let us discover the harmonic range of his instrument, the tuba.

In order to do this, he surrounds himself with first-class musicians: Manon Louis on the harp, Véronique Goudin-Léger on piano, Pauline Chacon on euphonium, Thierry Amadi on cello, the brass quintet Smart Is Brass and Gérald Rolland on trumpet. All of them reflect a trait of Coutet’s personality.

With their support, he plays his favourite works of a versatile repertoire, which reveals all the facets of his instrument. We discover one of the most pleasant and sensual duets that he shares with the harpist Manon Louis in Café 1930 from Astor Piazzolla or the Vocalise en forme de Habanera from Maurice Ravel. The contrast is the duet that the tuba forms with the cello in the piece Saturnalis from Meyer Kupferman, in which the two musicians, who dare here in an almost supernatural place, attend together to a question-and-answer game. With his colleagues from the brass family, Coutet is closing his album with a blooming Trompeten-Sextett in E flat op. 30 from the German composer Oscar Böhme.

„Keep in touch“ is the exchange of music that touches us, that affects us, but above all, that units us in the moment of listening.

Florian Coutet, tuba
Véronique Goudin-Léger, piano
Thierry Amadi, cello
Manon Louis, harp
Pauline Chacon, euphonium
Pierre Desole, trumpet
Remy Labarthe, trumpet
Guillaume Begni, horn
Jonathan Reith, trombone
Gerald Rolland, trumpet

Florian Coutet
born in Monaco, started his musical studies with Hervé Brisse in the North of France. Later he continued training with Melvin Culbertson, Arnaud Boukhitine and Ivan Milhiet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon. After graduating the CNSMDL in 2007 with a masters degree in Euphonium, he then obtained a masters degree in Tuba in May 2010 in Melvin Culbertson's Tuba Class at the CNSMD in Lyon. He was also an Erasmus Student in the Maastricht Conservatorium with Prof. Hans Nickel (Solo Tuba Koln WDR Orchestra).

Mr Coutet has been awarded several prizes in prestigious competitions: a Prize of the Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes (Concerts in Summer Festival), 1st Prize of Rotary International Competition and European Music Competition in Picardie, Winner of the Yamaha Musique Foundation of Europe 2009 and in October 2010 he won the 1st Prize and Special Prize of the 15th International Performers Solo Tuba Competition in Brno, Czech Republic. He is also laureate of the Jan Koetsier International Brass Quintet Competition in Munich as well as Smart Is Brass in November 2010. In December 2010, he became a laureate of Fondation d’Entreprise Banque Populaire Natexis, the first tuba player within the Foundation.

Mr Coutet is regularly invited to perform with French and other European orchestras: Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Opéra de Marseille, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre les Siécles, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Les Solistes Européens Luxembourg, Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Opéra National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre de Paris and other, often conducted by prestigious conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Marek Janowski, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Emmanuel Krivine, Kurt Masur, Tugan Soghiev, Yakov Kreizberg, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, and other.

Mr Coutet has appeared as tuba soloist at Verbier Festival Orchestra in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He is a rostered artist with Miraphone Artist.

Fascinated by chamber music, Mr Coutet is a co-founder of Smart Is Brass, a brass quintet from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. Actually masters degree students of Michel Becquet in Lyon, they perform in various festivals in France. A brass Sextet with Olivier Bombrun (solo Trumpet Orchestre Suisse Romande) is derived from Smart Is Brass. He is also a member of Monaco Brass, a brass ensemble from the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

Mr Coutet is interested in a diversity of chamber and contemporary music. Composers such as Thierry Escaich, Gustavo Beytelmann, Etienne Perruchon, Arnaud Boukhitine and Henry Fourès have written works for him.

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