Rendez-Vous de l'Alliance: Yohan Giaume
April 13 • 5:00 pm (CST) • in English
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During this "Rendez-vous de l'Alliance", Yohan Giaume will present his musical project called "Whisper
of a Shadow"
that he recorded in New Orleans with renowned musicians from both sides of the Atlantic with an emphasis on New Orleans based
artists. On this occasion, Yohan Giaume will be joined by two other guests to discuss New Orleans musical history and its foreign
influences: Evan Christopher, New Orleans based clarinettist who also features on "Whisper of a Shadow", and Marcello
Piras,
an Italian musicologist.
For the last 15 years, French composer, trumpeter and ethnomusicologist Yohan Giaume has
immersed himself into different foreign cultures and musical traditions mainly guided by his love for the music of the African diaspora. He
has lived in Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Morocco, Europe and also different places throughout the United States. Giaume began in Cuba
and South America, but it was New Orleans that left him rapt.
He has been exploring the vernacular musical traditions of New Orleans since 2009. During his journeys to the
Crescent City, he also made an unexpected discovery: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the Louisiana romantic Creole composer and
pianist, had taken almost the same route in his travels as Giaume did two centuries apart.
Through the 19th century lens of Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s journey, Yohan Giaume thus conceived an
imaginary musical conversation between two composers – Gottschalk, a Louisiana native of creole descent, and himself – representing two
different eras and two different cultures, New Orleans and France.
