Sacha BOURGUIGNON Trumpet Flugelhorn Back to CD page
After advanced musical studies at the National Music School (ENM)
of Marnes-
la –Vallée and in the Musical
Information Centre (CIM) of Paris, Sacha decided
to spend some
time in Orient to improve his knowledge of Oriental music at the
National Music Conservatory of Beirut.
Back to France, he perfected his practice of the Arabic language at the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Cultures (INALCO) and took Byzantine singing lessons in Arabic.
During his 10 year career as a professional musician, he has
played in some of
the most famous big bands in France (Gérard
Badini Super Swing Machine,
François Laudet Big Band,
Ornicar Big Band, etc.) and has accompanied
singers such as La
Velle, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nicole Croisille...
He played with many small Parisian groups, he recorded several
albums and worked with many different jazzmen such as Eric Löhrer,
Cyrille Serge, Stéphane Guillaume,
Nicolas Montier,
Jean-François Jenny-Clarke, Edouard Ferlet and James
Lewis.
At the moment, he plays in the Stan Lafferrière tentet with
which he performed
his composition Assawt at the Heineken
Festival of Beirut in 1998.
He also works with the famous Lebanese singer Fairuz and her son Ziad Rahbany.