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Hello and welcome on my homepage!
Biography:
Vincent Daoud, born in Rennes, France, in 1978, started studiyng the saxophone at the age of eight, in Saint Brieuc with Emmanuel Hody. At the age of nineteen, he goes to Paris to study with Jean-Michel Goury.
Daoud received several prizes during those years in Paris, most notable amongst them were the first prize and special prize for contemporary piece at the international competition for young soloists in Gap, second prize at the "concours de musique en Picardie", and third prize at the international Music competiton Penderecki in Krakow.
In Paris he developped an interest for improvisation.
He quickly starts playing with great musicians such as Marcel Khalife in London, Steve Potts(s), Ramon Lopez(d) in Paris, Paul Hanmer(p) at Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Paed Conca(cl) and Jonas Kocher(fis.) in Switzerland, singer Fabrice di Falco in Martinique, composer and player Christian Wolff in Montreuil, Yoko Miura (p), Tomoo Nagai(d) and Yutaka Kaido(b) in Tokyo...
In 2001, Vincent Daoud pursued his musical education with Pierre-Stephane Meugé in the Lausanne Conservatory, and graduated in harmony, history of music, analysis, and saxophone. He also took lessons with Alain Damiens during the "Centre Acanthes" 2004, other members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain during the Lucerne festival academy in august 2006, Garth Knox, Claude Delangle, George Lewis...
Concert activities as soloist or with chamber music groups brought him to festivals like Lucerne Festival, Tage für Neue Musik, Archipel, Biennale Bern, Webern Festival in Switzerland, Klangspuren and Atterseeklassik in Austria, Transart'04 in Italy, Musicadhoy in Spain, "Musiques démesurées" in France, International Music Festival in Rabat Moroco...He worked with great musicians like Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Armin Jordan, Beat Furrer, Jean Deroyer, Stefan Asbury, Steven Schick, Marino Formenti, collaborated with orchestras or ensembles like the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Basel Kammerorchester, ensemble Ictus (BE), Contrechamps(CH) and Centre International de Percussions, 2e2m(FR), le Car de Thon(CH), Ensemble Vortex(CH), Collegium Novum(CH)...
Collaboration with composers takes an important part in his musical activities. He worked with Claude Ballif, Betsy Jolas, Heinz Holliger, Mathias Pintscher, premiered pieces of Luis Naon, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Essl, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Elizabeth Adams, Ernest H. Papier, Hanz-Jurg Meier, Miroslav Srnka, Reinhard von Berg, Piotr Grella-Mozejko, Valentin Marti, Brice Catherin, Frédéric Danel, Andrea Molino, Florian Folkmann, Duncan Yougerman, Beat Fhelmann, Frédéric Perretten, Leopold Dick, Jean-Yves Bernhard...
Since 2005, he has studied musical theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Bern Conservatory in Switzerland, where he graduated in sept. 2007 with highest honors, fagott with Lyndon Watts (Munich Symphony Orchestra) and Paul Riveaux (ensemble Intercontemporain), conducting with Domingo Garcia (assistant conductor of Daniel Barenboim at Komische Oper in Berlin in 2009), and has been a teacher at the "Ecole Sociale de Musique" in Lausanne.
He is a member of the ensemble Hic et Nunc, 4tenors saxophone quartet and Wiener saxophone quartet.
Vincent Daoud is the 5th prizewinner of the 2nd international Jean Marie Londeix competition that was held in Bangkok in January 2008.
In 2008, Vincent Daoud has been artist in residence in Biel in Switzerland, invited by the Office of Culture of the State of Bern.
He is currently studying politic sciences at the university of Lausanne.