Louis Matute
won the College Claparède Music Prize in 2013. He entered the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, where he studied for three years with Francis Coletta and Vinz Vonlanthen. He then attended the courses of Wolfgang Muthspiel and Lionel Loueke at the Jazzcampus Basel. In 2016, Louis was selected by HEMU as a Swiss artist to perform at the Switzerland Meets Brazil Festival in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, organized by the Montreux Jazz Festival to celebrate the festival's 50th anniversary. As a versatile musician, he is a sideman for various projects in different styles, including Gaspard Sommer (neosoul) and Phasm (modern jazz). Through this collaboration he has had appearances on recognized Swiss stages such as AMR, Chorus Jazz Club, Cully Jazz, Jazz Onze +, Montreux Jazz, Label Suisse and shared the stage with outstanding musicians such as Nicolas Folmer, Nguyen Lê, Matthieu Michel and Ben Van Gelder. He leads his own quartet, with which he released two albums in 2018 and 2020. In 2019, Louis received the Cully Jazz Festival Prize for "the quality of the personal project, professionalism and the potential for development on the Swiss and international stage". Louis was selected by Rares Donca, head of Shelters - cultural center for young talents, for the 2019-2020 season. In October 2019 he was invited by the Swiss Embassy, the French Consulate and the Madajazzcar Festival to play and teach for a week during the Madajazzcar Festival in Antananarivo. He won the Jazz Contraband competition in October 2019.