Yoann Durant is composer and improviser. He plays the saxophone (soprano & alto), custom-built washing-machine tube and garden hose, acoustic and electrified.
He owns a Master’s degree from the jazz and improvised music class of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, a state certificate of jazz teacher and several certificates of musical studies and classical, contemporary and jazz music. He also studied contemporary music and Northern Indian music.
Yoann Durant practices a double reading of sound in his compositions. He considers both a sound in itself, in its solitude, as well as its inherent articulation in relation to other sounds, to space, to body, and to breath. He created performances as the solo seul and the group performance sousentendu. He is touring internationally with bands like OO, Rétroviseur and Irène and artists like Marten Spangberg, Andrea Neumann, Tim Berne, Perrine Bailleux, …
