Biography
Matthias Leboucher began to play the piano at the age of 5. After studying with Bernard Job in Blois, he obtained in 2011 a Licence-DNSPM (Bachelor) at the Pôle Supérieur Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt (PSPBB) with Marie-Paule Siruguet. In 2010 he was awarded the Mention-Spéciale Maurice Ohana from the 9th Orléans International Piano Competition. He occasionally benefits from the teaching of Françoise Thinat, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexandre Tharaud. He also regularly plays and records with the Ensemble Acouphène, Daniel Kientzy…
In 2014 he created the New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg with his colleague Josef Ramsauer and 8 musicians. They performed new music in Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea, Lithuania… As an improviser and a jazz musician, he regularly plays with different bands from duo to big-band. In 2012 he created with Arthur Pierre Butcher&Stone. In Salzburg, he regularly plays with jazz violinist Florian Willeitner and leads his own projects including Good question and Royal Pump…
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