Brice Catherin was born surrounded by Belgians (but he is French) on the same year when socialism arrived in France and AIDS in Africa. A pure conservatory product, he has attended Marc Jaermann’s (cello, Lausanne, Switzerland) and Michael Jarrell’s (composition, Geneva, Switzerland) classes. He escaped nonetheless alive and psychically viable (probably thanks to he two mentioned above), and is now active as a composer, cellist, electronicist, performance artist and improviser. He participates in the Festival de la Bâtie (Geneva, 2008, 2010 and 2011), Akouphène (Geneva, 2005 to 2010), Angoulême (2008), Archipel (Geneva, 2008), la Cité (Lausanne, 2005), and much more, but you got the point.

In 2006, he founded Le Car de Thon, an ensemble in which he is the only permanent member. Le Car de Thon exclusively plays music written between the middle ages and the 21st century, as well as free improvisation, collaborates with dancers, stage directors, movie directors, actors, illustrators, visual artists, children and amateurs, in groups of two to fifty-five people. The Ensemble was resident of the Théâtre du Grütli (Geneva) for the season 2007 -2008 and gave hundreds of concerts since then.

His two artistic models are Jean-Luc Godard and Karlheinz Stockhausen, but as he is not too much of a fetishist, so he has many others as well. He also thinks that you should better listen to what he does, since that shall be more interesting than reading this biography that is, after all, quite banal. Thank you.

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“Brice Catherin, the master of the quack-quack that goes tutut.”
Marc Olivetta.