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LYNN ADIB - Voice and Flute

Lynn Adib is a Syrian singer born in Damascus, where she was introduced to Byzantine singing from an early age as part of the ‘Choir of Joy’ for the Church of Our Lady of Damascus. Later, during her flute studies at the National Conservatory of Damascus, she discovered jazz - which seduced her with the freedom and complexity of style. Thus began a musical adventure for Lynn, where she seeks to bring together traditional Arabic music (Maqâm), the religious songs of ancient Syria, and jazz.

In 2009, Lynn moved to Paris where she enrolled in the American School of Modern Music, before pursuing studies in vocal jazz at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR). It was there that she met the musicians with whom she was to create her quartet, working on original compositions which combine jazz, Arabic singing, current music, and traditional Syrian sacred and profane music. Lynn Adib embodies, through her voice and her journey, this new generation of musicians from the Middle East, loving freedom with the sounds of jazz, and creation beyond all cultural and stylistic borders.

Currently, and after releasing her first Album «!Youmma!», Lynn participates in several projects initiated between France and the Middle East, - such as Bedouin Burger, Yalla-Queen (2020) and a new trio project with Raed El Khazen and Khaled Yassine (2022).

 

MARC BURONFOSSE, guitar and double bass

Marc Buronfosse started classical guitar studies at the age of ten, going on to study the double bass in 1982 with Thierry Barbé while also achieving qualifications in sound engineering and musicology.

After receiving a prize at the Conservatoire de Paris XII, he began playing more and more jazz, working with bass players such as Cesarius Alvim, Charlie Haden, Reggie Workman and Henri Texier. He has also worked with symphonic orchestras (Opéra de Paris) and chamber music orchestras (touring Japan with the “Solistes de Versailles”).

In June 1991, he obtained a grant from the French Ministry of Culture and studied for one year in New York at The New School of Music. During this time he took lessons regularly with Gary Peacock, Marc Johnson and Mark Dresser. He also met and played with Jimmy Cobb, Steve Kühn, John Abercrombie, Lew Soloff, Jim Hall, Tim Berne, Dave Liebman, and Billy Harper among others, and he won first prize at the Defense competition in 1992, with the Bojan Z quartet.

In Paris, he mainly plays with the Stéphane Guillaume Quartet, René Aubry Septet, Stéphane Tsapis Trio, Gueorgui Kornazov “Horizons” Quintet, Georges Paczynski Trio, Issa Murad Joussour Group, Jasser Haj Youssef Quartet, and Toufic Farroukh Band, He has recorded around 60 CDs in his career and presently has his own quartet with musicians Benjamin Moussay, Jean-Charles Richard and Antoine Banville. The CD ‘Face The Music’ was released in 2010, receiving the distinctive praise of ‘Revelation’ by Jazz Magazine.

The ‘Windmills Chronicles’ album by the Stéphane Guillaume 4tet + brass  was awarded the 2009 prize for the best jazz album of the year by the French Jazz Academy . In 2011, the album by the Michel Elmalem 5tet feat. Marc Copland, received the same distinction from the Jazz Academy for best album of the year.

An album named «ÆGN Aigaio» recorded in Naoussa - Paros, was released in 2016

by Abalone Productions / L'Autre Distribution, an electronic project where Buronfosse plays exclusively on a Fender bass VI. The radio France Inter Paris selected the album in the list of the best 250 albums for an ideal collection.

A new ÆGN album « Aegean Nights » was released in October 2020 on Arts Culture

Europe / Inouïe Distribution, and has been well received by the press.

Marc teaches jazz bass and workshops at the Conservatoire National de Region of Paris.

He has been the artistic director of the Mediterranean Artists Masters Festival Academy on Paros since 2011.