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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.
There he developped an interest for improvisation, and played with Marcel Khalife in London, Steve Potts, Ramon Lopez in Paris, Paul Hanmer at Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Fabrice di Falco in Martinique, Christian Wolff in Montreuil, Yoko Miura in Tokyo...
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 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 and with chamber groups brought him to festivals like Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, International Music Festival in Rabat in Maroco, Klangspuren in Austria, Transart'04 in Italy, "Musiques démesurées" in France...He worked with musicians like Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Armin Jordan, Beat Furrer, Jean Deroyer, Steven Schick, Marino Formenti, collaborated with ensembles like the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, ensemble Contrechamps and Centre International de Percussions in Geneva, 2e2m in Paris, ensemble Car de Thon in Geneva....
Collaboration with composers takes an important part in his musical activities. He worked with Claude Ballif, Betsy Jolas, Mathias Pintscher, premiered pieces of Luis Naon, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Essl, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Elizabeth Adams, Ernest H. Papier, Hans-Yurg Meier, Miroslav Srnka, Beat Fhelman, Florian Folkmann, Valentin Marti, Andrea Molino...
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 and Paul Riveaux, 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, he will be artist in residence in Biel in Switzerland, invited by the Office of Culture of the State of Bern.