Yannick Delez String 5tet
Biography Yannick Delez String 5tet
Yannick Délez
is a Swiss pianist-composer. Self- educated musician from a very young age, he undertook professional studies at the Ecole de Jazz of Lausanne in 1990 where he obtains a piano diploma. He develops a personal playing amongst many acoustic jazz bands. Then he joins the band Piano Seven (7 pianos and guests) with which he records 4 albums and plays in many concert halls of Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Taipei, Singapore, Beirut and Beijing, Shangai, Saigon, among others. He participates in three creations of the group for which he composes and arranges, one of those being an original performance with 7 pianos, percussion, and brass quintet for the Swiss National Exhibition in 2002.
The first record bearing his name is “Rouge” (Altrisuoni 2003) a piano solo album that received international acclaim. One can appreciate the particularity of his piano playing simultaneously with pointillist and lyric. ...“based on rhythmical ostinati and a truly original technique...” (RSR La Première), “... a family of thinking favoring romantic lyricism and sophisticated harmonic choices...” (Jazzman***).
In 2004 he composes a repertoire for piano – bass clarinet – soprano saxophone and creates his own trio (Yannick Délez Trio) with Philippe Ehinger (bass clarinet) and Stefano Saccon (soprano saxophone). They are selected for the Swiss Diagonales Jazz 07.
In 2004, he also constituted a Duo with the singer ChloéLévy. The ChloéLévy Yannick Délez Duo records in December 2006 his first album Leinicha at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo with the audio engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug. This album received positive feedback from the specialized press (Jazzman****. Télérama ffff, Concerto*****).
In 2010 he publish his second piano solo album: Boreales (Unit Records UTR 4271) which receive also very positive feedback from the European press (Jazz’n’more *****, Concerto ****)
In 2016 he publish a third piano solo album. LIVE / MONOTYPES (Unit Records / Deutschlandradio UTR 4755) a double album based on a live performance recorded by Deutschland radio. The album was acclaimed by the European press and is nominated for the National discographic’s critic award in Germany (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik).
