Cours de contrebasse tous niveaux et ouverts à tous styles musicaux à Bruxelles

Curriculum Vitae de Jordi

Since his beginning as a double bass player the itinerary of Jordi Cassagne is a strolling over the course of his artistic collaborations. Immerged into early music and the study of the violone sometimes, or going with the flow of jazz and improvised music, he explores different musical aesthetics.

In 2008 he started studying at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague where he graduated with a Master degree in Jazz Double Bass in May 2014.
He studied with, among others: Hein van de Geyn, Frans van der Hoeven, Clemens van der Feen and Janos Bruneel.
During the course of his master he followed a minor in Early Music, studying violone with Maggie Urquhart.
Then he moved to Belgium and in September 2016 he enrolled at the Brussels' Royal Conservatory, studying with Korneel Lecompte historical double bass and G violone.

His musical projects, becoming more and more personal, gave him the chance to perform in prestigious stages such as Jazz in Marciac, Jazz à Vienne, North Sea Jazz Festival, Nederlands Dans Theater, Holland Festival, Errobiko festibala, les Éthiopiques de Mars, Uzeste Musical, San Sebastian's Jazzaldia, Mithra Jazz à Liège, Brussels Jazz Weekend ; or Tudo é Jazz in Ouro Preto in Brazil.

Jordi is performing his own music with the Ensemble UTNUZ and he is currently active on the musical scene with the bands :

BENGALIFÈRE (improvised music, european jazz)
LE BAL DE MARIE GALANTE (Afro Caribbean grooves)
TERPSICHORE (contemporary jazz)
HARATAGO (basque traditional music)
JULIEN MARGA QUARTET (jazz)
OMEGA IMPACT (polish songs)

Over the past few years he took part in different projects: Muntjacs, Terpsichore, Alban Claret Trio, Lafé Bémé, MST octet ;
And he met and played with musicians such as : Denis Badault, Beñat Achiary, Pedro Soler, Nicolas Nageotte, Michel Queuille, Didier Lasserre, Léo Jassef, Théo Lanau, Jean Dousteyssier, Quentin Biardeau, Peter Jacquemyn, Audrey Lauro, Johannes Eimermacher, Jordi Grognard, Medhi Chaib, Grégoire Tirtiaux...

In 2014 , the first album of the trio Bengalifère was elected Révélation by Jazz Man/Mag.
In September 2016, the Julien Marga Quartet is laureate of the "Trophées du Sunside" .

As a baroque double bass player and violone player, he had the chance to perform under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken, Barthold Kuijken, Sebastien Marq and Peter Van Heygen and to perform with the Concerto Valiante Orchestra or the Orchestra van Wassenaer.

In contemporary music he played diverse orchestral pieces such as :
“To You” by Peter Schat, “De Tijd” by Louis Andriessen, the “Sponsus” by Sasha Zamler-Carhart, "Proposition of Fossils by Graham Flett, "Chord Symphony" by Tom Aldrich and the "Black Series" by Peter Ablinger.
Jordi took part in pluri-diciplinary-projects with " La Compagnie La Bâtarde” (Bordeaux), or "Ensuing" (Den Haag).