Jean-Claude Vannier
Encyclopedia
Jean-Claude Vannier is a French musician, composer
and arranger
. He was born during a bomb scare in Courbevoie
, Hauts-de-Seine
. Self-taught, he began playing the piano at age 18, later arranging for Michel Magne and Alice Dona, his first notions of orchestration taken from the books of the "Que sais-je ?" collection. Jean Claude Vannier signs the arrangements, composes the musics, writes the words and produces albums of many singers. Jean Claude has been invited to conduct in various countries (Brazil, Japan, Algeria, Zaire, Yugoslavia, Poland, Italy, Spain, Canada, England...)
Besides his own concerts and diverse musical entertainments, Jean-Claude staged numerous shows for artists such as Véronique Sanson’s show with the Prague Symphonic Orchestra at Paris’ Châtelet Theatre, Jane Birkin at the Olympia, “Children's Opera" (for which he also composed the music) and for the Festival of Avignon.
Jean-Claude Vannier has written and recorded six solo albums. Each release has been played live, at venues such as the Campagne Première Theatre, the Ranelagh Theatre, the Théâtre de la Ville, the Dejazet Theatre, the Trottoirs de Buenos Aires , the Auditorium des Halles, and the Théâtre des Abbesses.
“L’enfant assassin des mouches” is a concept album by Vannier that was released by Night & Day in 2003. This instrumental album, which inspired Serge Gainsbourg to write the well known cruel tale, was originally recorded in 1973. Finders Keepers, a UK record label, released it in 2005 with outstanding quotes from Jarvis Cocker, Jim O’Rourke, David Holmes, Tim Gane, Andy Votel International release in 2006 by Finders Keepers. “Because Music” decided to republish the album in October 2008. The album has since attained a more notable cult classic status.
Jean-Claude Vannier performed an enormous live show "L'enfant Assassin des Mouches & Melody Nelson" at London's Barbican on October 21, 2006 with guest vocalists Jarvis Cocker
, Badly Drawn Boy
, Brigitte Fontaine
, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey
and lead singer from Super Furry Animals
, Gruff Rhys
.
Publicity for the Barbican concert revealed that the musicians used for the album were Dougie Wright, Big Jim Sullivan
, Herbie Flowers
and Vic Flick
who all joined Vannier for the concert. BBC Concert Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, a children’s string quintet were part of the show
In October 2008 22nd & 23rd this show conceived, arranged, orchestrated by Jean-Claude Vannier was performed at the Cité de la Musique with guest vocalists :Mathieu Amalric, B at the Cité de la Musique with guest vocalistsMathieu Amalric, Brigitte Fontaine, Brian Molko (Placebo), Martina Topley Bird, Daniel Darc, Clotilde Hesme, Seaming To.
The Lamoureux Orchestra, the Yound Choir of Paris, and the children’s string quintet were part of the show. The rhythm section was : bass : Herbie Flowers - guitars: Claude Engel and Thomas Coeuriot - drums: Pierre Alain Dahan - keyboards : Gérard Bikialo, and a sound effects man : Michel Musseau.
Jean Claude has also performed in other artistic fields such as:
water colour paintings exhibited (Windsor and Newton Award 1984) at the Autumn Salon,
journalism (writer for Nouvelles Littéraires, Glamour and the Journal Littéraire),
the radio (comic gardening and cooking shows for France Culture) and
directed a video for Maruschka Detmers.
In 1990 he also published his first collection of short stories "Le club des inconsolables” (The Club of the Inconsolable)" (Published by Fixot)
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and arranger
Arranger
In investment banking, an arranger is a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the "lead underwriter". This is because this entity bears the risk of being able to sell the underlying securities/debt or the...
. He was born during a bomb scare in Courbevoie
Courbevoie
Courbevoie is a commune located very close to the centre of Paris, France. The centre of Courbevoie is situated 2 kilometres from the outer limits of Paris and 8.2 km...
, Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine
Hauts-de-Seine is designated number 92 of the 101 départements in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris...
. Self-taught, he began playing the piano at age 18, later arranging for Michel Magne and Alice Dona, his first notions of orchestration taken from the books of the "Que sais-je ?" collection. Jean Claude Vannier signs the arrangements, composes the musics, writes the words and produces albums of many singers. Jean Claude has been invited to conduct in various countries (Brazil, Japan, Algeria, Zaire, Yugoslavia, Poland, Italy, Spain, Canada, England...)
Biography
Jean-Claude collaborated on several film soundtracks including: "Les guichets du Louvre" by Michel Mitrani, "La horse" by Pierre Granier Deferre, "Paris nous appartient" by Robert Benayoun, "Slogan" by Pierre Grimblat, "Projection privée" by François Leterrier, "L'amour propre" by Martin Veyron, "La nuit tous les chats sont gris" by Gérard Zingg, and "Comédie d'été" by Daniel Vigne.Besides his own concerts and diverse musical entertainments, Jean-Claude staged numerous shows for artists such as Véronique Sanson’s show with the Prague Symphonic Orchestra at Paris’ Châtelet Theatre, Jane Birkin at the Olympia, “Children's Opera" (for which he also composed the music) and for the Festival of Avignon.
Jean-Claude Vannier has written and recorded six solo albums. Each release has been played live, at venues such as the Campagne Première Theatre, the Ranelagh Theatre, the Théâtre de la Ville, the Dejazet Theatre, the Trottoirs de Buenos Aires , the Auditorium des Halles, and the Théâtre des Abbesses.
“L’enfant assassin des mouches” is a concept album by Vannier that was released by Night & Day in 2003. This instrumental album, which inspired Serge Gainsbourg to write the well known cruel tale, was originally recorded in 1973. Finders Keepers, a UK record label, released it in 2005 with outstanding quotes from Jarvis Cocker, Jim O’Rourke, David Holmes, Tim Gane, Andy Votel International release in 2006 by Finders Keepers. “Because Music” decided to republish the album in October 2008. The album has since attained a more notable cult classic status.
Jean-Claude Vannier performed an enormous live show "L'enfant Assassin des Mouches & Melody Nelson" at London's Barbican on October 21, 2006 with guest vocalists Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
, Badly Drawn Boy
Badly Drawn Boy
Damon Gough is an English alternative music singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the Breightmet area of Bolton, Lancashire, England....
, Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...
, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey
Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...
and lead singer from Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...
, Gruff Rhys
Gruff Rhys
Gruffydd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008...
.
Publicity for the Barbican concert revealed that the musicians used for the album were Dougie Wright, Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. He is best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK, and performed in more than one thousand charting singles over his career...
, Herbie Flowers
Herbie Flowers
Herbie Flowers is an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double-bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T...
and Vic Flick
Vic Flick
Victor Harold Flick is an English guitarist, most famous for playing the guitar riff in the "James Bond Theme".-Biography:...
who all joined Vannier for the concert. BBC Concert Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, a children’s string quintet were part of the show
In October 2008 22nd & 23rd this show conceived, arranged, orchestrated by Jean-Claude Vannier was performed at the Cité de la Musique with guest vocalists :Mathieu Amalric, B at the Cité de la Musique with guest vocalistsMathieu Amalric, Brigitte Fontaine, Brian Molko (Placebo), Martina Topley Bird, Daniel Darc, Clotilde Hesme, Seaming To.
The Lamoureux Orchestra, the Yound Choir of Paris, and the children’s string quintet were part of the show. The rhythm section was : bass : Herbie Flowers - guitars: Claude Engel and Thomas Coeuriot - drums: Pierre Alain Dahan - keyboards : Gérard Bikialo, and a sound effects man : Michel Musseau.
Jean Claude has also performed in other artistic fields such as:
water colour paintings exhibited (Windsor and Newton Award 1984) at the Autumn Salon,
journalism (writer for Nouvelles Littéraires, Glamour and the Journal Littéraire),
the radio (comic gardening and cooking shows for France Culture) and
directed a video for Maruschka Detmers.
In 1990 he also published his first collection of short stories "Le club des inconsolables” (The Club of the Inconsolable)" (Published by Fixot)
Solo albums
- 19721972 in music-Events:*January 17 – Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Boulevard"*January 20 – The début of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties,...
: L'Enfant assassin des mouches (Insolitudes) - 19741974 in music-January–April:*January 3 – Bob Dylan and The Band kick off their 40-date concert tour at Chicago Stadium. It's Dylan's first time on the road since 1966.*January 17...
: L'orchestre de Jean-Claude Vannier interprète les musiques de Georges Brassens - 19751975 in music-January–April:*January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case....
: Jean-Claude Vannier - 19761976 in music-January–February:*January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle....
: Des coups de poing dans la gueule - 19801980 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.-January–March:*January 1**Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.**The Zorros audition drummer Greg Pedley....
: Pauvre muezzin - 19811981 in musicSee also:* Timeline of musical eventsThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1981.-January–April:*January 10 – A revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith.*January 24 –...
: Jean-Claude Vannier - 19851985 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...
: Public chéri je t'aime - 19901990 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...
: Pleurez pas les filles - 20052005 in music-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
: En public & Fait à la maison (2 CD)
Arrangements
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Feature films
- 1969 : Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? by Jacques PoitrenaudJacques PoitrenaudJacques Poitrenaud, born May 22 1922, in Lille, died April 5 2005 in Paris, is a French film director and actor.- Director :* 1956 : Saint-Germain-en-Laye, cité royale * 1957 : Enfants, Touraine...
- 1969 : Paris n'existe pas by Robert BenayounRobert BenayounRobert Benayoun was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais.He wrote screenplays for and directed three films...
- 1973 : Projection privée by François Leterrier
- 1974 : Les Guichets du LouvreLes Guichets du LouvreBlack Thursday is a French film from 1974 directed by Michel Mitrani. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.- Synopsis :On 16 July 1942, in Paris...
by Michel MitraniMichel MitraniMichel Mitrani was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels... - 1977 : La Nuit, tous les chats sont grisLa Nuit, tous les chats sont grisLa Nuit, tous les chats sont gris is a 1977 French film starring Gérard Depardieu.-Cast:* Gérard Depardieu : Philibert Larcher* Robert Stephens : Charles Watson* Tsilla Chelton : Mme Banalesco* Laura Betti : Jacqueline...
by Gérard Zingg - 1985 : L'amour propre ne le reste jamais longtemps by Martin Veyron, compositeur et acteur (le pianiste)
- 1988 : Ada dans la jungle by Gérard Zingg
- 1989 : Comédie d'été by Daniel Vigne
- 1989 : Bienvenue à bord by Jean-Louis Leconte
- 1993 : Je m'appelle Victor by Guy Jacques
- 1995 : La Poudre aux yeux by Maurice DugowsonMaurice DugowsonMaurice Dugowson was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1975 film Lily, aime-moi was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, his film F comme Fairbanks was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
- 2001 : La Tour Montparnasse infernaleLa Tour Montparnasse InfernaleLa Tour Montparnasse Infernale is a 2000 French comedy film directed by Charles Nemes and written by Kader Aoun, Ramzy Bedia, Eric Judor and Xavier Matthieu...
by Charles Nemes - 2002 : Sauvage innocence by Philippe GarrelPhilippe GarrelPhilippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...
- 2003 : Les Amants réguliers by Philippe GarrelPhilippe GarrelPhilippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...
- 2004 : Aux Abois by Philippe Collin
- 2008 : Leur morale... et la nôtre by Florence Quentin
Television
- 19941994 in televisionThe year 1994 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1994.For the American TV schedule, see: 1994-95 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-Miniseries:...
: Personne ne m'aime, by René DuboisRené DuboisRené Dubois was a French boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to Patrick O'Hanrahan of Great Britain on points. The matches were held in the Veledrome d'Hiver... - 19941994 in televisionThe year 1994 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1994.For the American TV schedule, see: 1994-95 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-Miniseries:...
: Que le jour aille au diable, by Paul Vermus - 19951995 in televisionThe year 1995 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1995.For the American TV schedule, see: 1995-96 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
: La Belle by Fontenay, by Paule Zajderman - 19981998 in televisionThe year 1998 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1998.For the American TV schedule, see: 1998–99 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
: La Clé des champs, (6 episodes) by Charles Nemes - 19981998 in televisionThe year 1998 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1998.For the American TV schedule, see: 1998–99 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
: Les coquelicots sont, by Richard BohringerRichard BohringerRichard Bohringer is a French actor.-Personal life:Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has two other children, Richard and Lou.-Career:... - 19991999 in televisionThe year 1999 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1999.For the American TV schedule, see: 1999-00 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-Miniseries:...
: Dessine-moi un jouet, Hervé Baslé - 20002000 in televisionThe year 2000 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2000.For the American TV schedule, see: 2000-01 United States network television schedule.-Event:-Debuts:-1940s:...
: Sa mère la pute, by Brigitte RoüanBrigitte RoüanBrigitte Roüan is a French film director and actress.-Early life and career:Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris.Her acting career began at age 21, on... - 20012001 in televisionThe year 2001 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2001.-Events:-Debuts:-1940s:*Meet the Press .*Candid Camera .*CBS Evening News ....
: Le Baptême du boiteux, by Philippe Venault - 20022002 in televisionThe year 2002 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2002.For the American TV schedule, see: 2002–03 United States network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:-1940s:...
: Le Champ Dolent, le roman by la Terre, d’Hervé Baslé