SARAH LANCMAN1st Prize of the International Jazz Voice Shure Competition 2012

chaired by Quincy Jones

Line-up :Sarah Lancman: VocalGaël Rakotondrabe: PianoFabricio Nicolas: Double BassSimon Bernier: Drums

« Sarah Lancman is like a young Julie London mixed with the innocence of Shirley Horn on their way to the top. She is the hope of the jazz singer that we all have been waiting for »Wendy Oxenhorn, Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation of America.

Credits Photo: Jean Baptiste Bouchard

Sarah Lancman Singer/Composer

Winner of the first prize of the Montreux International Jazz Voice Competition 2012 with a jury chaired by Quincy Jones.Sarah, Lancman is enthusiastic about Jazz since her childhood.

She discovers the piano at the age of 7. She then starts a classical training then a jazz one at the Paris conservatoire.

She becomes passionate about musical arrangement and composition. In 2010, she enters the "Haute Ecole de Musique- Departement Jazz de Lausanne" she takes Piano Jazz with Emil Spanyi and Singing with Susanne Abbuehl.

She attends several Master Classes where she meets: Benny Golson, The New York Voices...

Since then, She took part in several Swiss festivals and musical scenes such as Verbier, Ascona Jazz festival, Blue Ball Festival in Luzern( Young Talent Category).

In the Summer 2012, she performed with the HEMU Afro-Cuban group as pianist at the Parc Vernex.

Currently, she is preparing the recording of her first album.

Gaël Rakotondrabe Pianist/ Composer/ Arranger

Gael Rakotondrabe was born in Paris in 1983. He grew up on the island of “La Reunion” in a musical family. Disciple of Bernard Maury, founder of the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris, he plays from 2001 in many jazz ensembles. He becomes a pianist, composer and arranger of the band CocoRosie, with whom he goes on several international tours between 2007 and 2011.

In 2008, he wins the first prize in the Montreux International Piano Jazz Festival.

Since 2011, he is the musical director and pianist of the Robert Wilson's play :"The Life and Death of

Marina Abromovic" with Antony Hegarty and Willem Dafoe.He is a member of "Antony And The Johnsons" currently on an international touring. They play with the philharmonic orchestras of each city in which they perform.

Fabricio NicolasDouble Bass

Fabricio Nicolas was born in April 14th, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela. He begins studying the violin then the guitar and the bass guitar. His interest in jazz grows gradually: at 18, he joins the ARPEJ in Paris jazz school where he meets French jazz musicians.Soon after, he begins performing on stage in many jazz clubs in Paris (New Morning, Sunset, Duc des Lombards ..). At the age of 19, he chooses the bass and begins practicing at the Conservatory of Cergy Pontoise with Francois Méchali, and also studies composition and musical arrangement.

After spending his instrument prize in Cergy, he joined the Jazz department and improvised music of

the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris in 2005. The department, headed by Riccardo del Fra allows him to meet and play with jazz musicians of the international scenes such as Dave Liebman, Miguel Zenon, Tony Malaby, Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Billy Hart, among others.Today, Fabricio plays as a bassist in several formations with highly varied musical styles. He often performs on French scenes.

Simon BernierDrums

Simon Bernier grew up in Britain, in a varied musical environment.

After a year of piano and guitar, he finds his way to the drums. in 2007, He joins for 2 years the Jazz class of St-Brieuc Conservatory (22) led by Jean-Philippe Lavergne.

Then he goes to Paris and integrates the Jazz class directed by Jean-Charles Richard at CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional) de Paris. This is an opportunity of highly exchange with musicians from diverse universes.

Currently, he plays in several bands in Paris and Brittany: Aman Byte (Jazz) Like Jam (Hip-Hop), Xavier Lugue Trio in Britain, Gildas Boclé some concerts with André Villéger, Gael Horellou, Michel Goldberg, Edward Bineau and Philippe Baden-Powell in Paris.

Since late 2011, Simon is part of the group Mina Agossi.

TECHNICAL RIDER4 Musicians

Sarah Lancman: vocalGaël Rakotondrabe: KeyboardFabricio Nicolas: Double BassSimon Bernier: Drums

PATCH LISTN° Source Mic

1 Voice Sarah Neumann KMS 105 (I take my own microphone)

2 Piano/ Keyboard Mic R/ Output R

3 Piano/ Keyboard Mic L/ Output L

4 Double Bass Mic cell / Double Bass

5 Drums

N° Retour Source

1 Voice

2 Piano/Keyboard

3 Double Bass

4 Drums

STAGE PLAN

Double Bass

Keyboard/Piano

Vocal

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PRESSEMontreux Jazz Chronicle n°7 (07/04/2012)

"Inside the grand walls of the beautiful Montreux Palace Hotel, Three talented young ladies sang their hearts out in the final of the 10th Montreux Jazz Voice Competition. Naturally, there can only ever be one winner and this year it was France's Sarah Lancman, taking home the prize ..." Helena Macadam -http://www.issuu.com/montreuxjazzchronicle/docs/mjf_chronicle_n7

Une Française Micro d'or (06/07/2012)

"Sarah Lancman won last Wednesday the Final of the Vocal Competition organized by the Festival. The Final with 3 other women took place in the Montreux Palace in front of a jury chaired by Quincy Jones himself. The Young Parisian girl, pupil in the "Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne" won in front of Roumania's Elena Mindru,...."Christophe Boillat -http://cendrillonetnous.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/tr-une-francaise-micro-dor/ FINAL SHURE MONTREUX JAZZ VOICE COMPETITION 2012

"The winner of the 2012 Shure Voice Competition is Sarah Lancman, from France.The women-only final gathered three singers of great talent: Sarah Lancman and Marie Martin from France as well as Elena Mindru, from Romania. Arnaud Robert, a journalist for Le Temps and also a jury member explains that the jury's choice fell on the young Parisian, a student of the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne for her natural, her jazz spirit and her «rock side»"

CONTACT:

SARAH LANCMAN

www.sarahlancman.com(+33)6 70 71 00 59

sarah_lancman@yahoo.fr