Raphaël Imbert (FR)

Plenary panel debate on Saturday 16/09, at 10:30 n 1995, with Jean-Jacques Elangué, he won the rst prize at the Conservatoire in Marseille, and started two bands, the Hemle Orchestra and the Atsas Imbert Consort. With these musicians, he enjoyed composing in eclectic musical settings. More personally, he developed his own vision of music and jazz, linked to the speci c

Saxophone player, composer, improviser, Director of Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet de Marseille (INSEAMM) since September 2019. Artistic director of the “Compagnie Nine Spirit'' since 1999.

For this purpose, he created “Nine Spirit”, that focused on the sacred musics of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others, and to realise shows inspired by evocative texts, using narration

He won the 28th National Jazz Competition of La Défense in Paris in 2005. He recorded 11 albums as leader, including “Bach Coltrane” in 2008. He won the "Victoires du Jazz" award with his album "Music is My Hope" (Jazz Village, 2018), he released "Oraison" with a new quartet in 2020 (Outnote Records) and "Invisible Stream" with Jean-Guihen Queyras (Harmonia Mundi

He created many shows under the auspices Marseille Provence 2013, capitale . He published in 2014 a book about spirituality in jazz called “Jazz Supreme. Initiés, Mystiques & Prophètes” (éditions de l’éclat). He wrote about ten papers for di erent media and he participates as musician and speaker in numerous conferences and shows with writers, philosophers, scientists.