THOMAS de POURQUERY, ALTO & SOPRANO SAXOPHONES

Born in 1977, simultaneously to his High-Level Cursus in Rugby, Thomas starts Alto Saxophon at the age of 14 years old .The emotion arose with Stefano di Battista’s meeting urged him to prefer music. The same year, he’ll be part of François Jeanneau’s masterclass at the Paris’s National Conservatory of Music and Danse . Meanwhile, he meets Laurent Cugny and becomes integrated in the “Lumière”’s Big Band in January 1999.Crucial meeting. Thomas creates a quintet with Daniel Zimmermann on Trombon, plays in the Andy Emler’s Mégaoctet, in the Antoine Hervé’s Big Band and the National Jazz Orchestra in 2001/2002. He works now for his Brass-Band "RIGOLUS" . He plays in the François Jeanneau’s "PANDEMONIUM" and the Andy Emler’s Mégaoctet...

Selection of CD's:

- Big Band Lumière / Laurent Cugny : «A Personal Landscape» Universal 2001
- Five in the tribe : «Five in the Tribe» 2000
- Zimmermann /de Pourquery Quintet
- O.N.J. de Paolo Damiani, invités : Anouar Brahem et Gianluigi Trovesi, 2002 E.C.M.
Megaoctet de Andy Emler : «Dreams in Tune» 2004