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Colin Vallon

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Lausanne, Switzerland

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Colin Vallon Trio

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After studying classical music for 2 years Colin Vallon (born November 17 1980 in Lausanne) took classes with jazz pianist Marc Ueter at the age of fourteen. He enrolled at the Swiss Jazz School when he was 18 and studied with Silvano Bazan, William Evans, Manuel Bärtsch and Bert Joris.
In 1999, he founds the Colin Vallon trio with Lorenz Beyeler on double-bass and Raphaël Pedroli on drums; in 2004 it released his debut-album “Les Ombres“. At that time, he starts to use and develop his own prepared piano techniques. In January 2005, the trio opens the Swiss Diagonales Festival with New-York guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. 2005, he forms a new trio with Patrice Moret on double-bass and Samuel Rohrer on drums and records “Ailleurs” published in 2007 by HatHut Records. «Rruga» the second recording of the trio Colin Vallon - Patrice Moret - Samuel Rohrer is released in 2011 on the prestigious international Label ECM Records.

Colin Vallon won the Fridl-Wald Foundation Prize, 1st Prize in the Competition Nescafé Let’s Jazz Together, and 3rd Prize in the Montreux International Jazz Piano Solo Competition. In 2004 Pro Helvetia commissioned a composition by him and he founded a new quintet, "Colin Vallon cinq" with french trumpet player Erik Truffaz. In 2008 he won the Nico Kaufmann Foudation prize and in 2009 the SUISA foundation prize. 2009 the Colin Vallon trio won the Pro Helvetia high priority jazz promotion.

Since 2009 he is teaching at the Bern University of the Arts.

Tours in Europe, Nord America, Africa, Asia, ...

He is playing with: Elina Duni Quartet, Nicolas Masson “Parallels”, “Contreband”…

Recordings with Tom Harrell, Adrian Mears, Norbert Pfammatter, Andy Scherrer, Steffen Schorn, John Schröder, Tyshawn Sorey, Dejan Terzic, Nils Wogram, Kenny Wheeler...