Guillaume Orti master class at the Jazz Department

Participation options & application:

Students of jazz and classical saxophone at the Liszt Academy can apply as active players by contacting Andrea Borzi at borzi.andrea[at]zeneakademia.hu.

Students of any major at the Liszt Academy and the Bartók Konzi can participate as passive participants (subject to the capacity of the room), for which prior registration is required, also with Andrea Borzi at borzi.andrea[at]zeneakademia.hu.

Photo: Fabien Buring

Guillaume was born in 1969. He studied in the Conservatoire de Région in Avignon with André Jaume (jazz), Robert Malbec and Jacques Pierson (classical saxophone). Then he moved to Paris in 1989 where he met people who had a strong impact on his evolution such as Benoît Delbecq with whom he started the band Kartet. In the Summer of 1990 he attended to the jazz seminary in Banff (Canada) under Steve Coleman’s supervision, this experience had a crucial impact on his musical development. In the 90s he played a big part in the improvised music scene around the venue Les Instants Chavirés. He co-founded the Hask Collective in 1993, and Mercoledi & Co in 1996, two entities that always put forward practice and collective creativity. Both as an improviser and composer, Guillaume works on the relationships between dance/music and text/music. Ha has been working intensively with author Ghislain Mugneret for more than twenty years on amongst others, the projects « à mesure » with Christine Bertocchi (voice) and Eric Chalan (double bass) as well as « Bon voyage », a theatrical concert by Christine Bertocchi. He’s presently a member of the following bands : Payen/Orti duet, D.U.O. (with Christine Bertocchi), MikMâäk (a 16-piece band), MegaOctet (dir. Andy Emler), Blue Yonder (dir. Emmanuel Scarpa), Twinning … As a sideman, he has played in different bands including Thôt (dir. Stéphane Payen), More Power (dir. Sylvain Cathala), Caroline 5tet (dir. Sarah Murcia), The Progressive Patriots (dir. Hasse Poulsen), Rouge (dir. Frédéric Bargeon-Briet), Aka Moon... He also took part in several transcultural projects at Fondation Royaumont which were mixing musicians and slammers from African countries and France. His encounters with musicians throughout Europe gave him the chance to develop long term collaborations with the collectives Octurn and Mâäk in Belgium, Oxymore in The Netherlands or PepaPaïvinen in Finland… In 2012 and 2013 he was artistic director of the European Saxophone Ensemble (12 young europeans coming from twelve different countries on an original repertoire).