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Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist, improviser and bandleader. She was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland, and has been a resident of New York City since 1998. She won Germany’s International Jazz Piano Prize in 2022, the Swiss Grand Prix and The American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award in 2025. Courvoisier has earned her renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the classically minded chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York. She ranges from playing with her longtime jazz trio to performing Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in league with new-music pianist Cory Smythe, among other genre-bounding ventures. Courvoisier has collaborated over the past two decades with such luminaries as John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker, Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg, Fred Frith, Andrew Cyrille, Mark Feldman, Christian Fennesz, Nate Wooley and Mary Halvorson. Courvoisier has toured the world from Europe and North America to South America, Asia and Australia. She teaches as a member of the faculty of New School of Jazz., in New York City. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Bone Bells
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Esmeralda
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Nags Head Valse
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Folded Secret
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Beclouded
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Albums

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Bone Bells

2025
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Searching for the Disappeared Hour

2021
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Noise of our Time

2018
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To Be Other-Wise

2024
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Lockdown

2021
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In Cahoots

2016
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Chimaera (feat. Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Fennesz, Nate Wooley & Drew Gress)

2023
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Time Gone Out

2019
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The Rite of Spring - Spectre d'un songe

2023
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Pulse

2019

Singles & EPs

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Esmeralda

Single • 2025
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Moonbow

Single • 2021
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Bone Bells

Single • 2025
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Live at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

EP • 2013
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Hotel Esmeralda (for Hugo Pratt)

Single • 2024
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Le pavot rouge (feat. Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Fennesz, Nate Wooley & Drew Gress)

Single • 2023

Videos

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Sylvie Courvoisier TRIO with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen - Eclats for Ornette

sylvie courvoisier • 4.3K views
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Tyrow James f/ M.C. Mikey Crazy - "The Mikey Mixx" [Official Video]

Tyrow James • 586 views
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Sylvie Courvoisier, Joëlle Léandre, Susie Ibarra - Mini Three

Nataliajazz • 2.6K views
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Blown Away (Official Music Video)

Nap City • 1.8K views
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FarFear- "Devil's Way" Official Music Video

BlankTV • 14K views
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Sylvie Courvoisier, Confins de Lueurs, Pierre Soulages

Thomas Turner • 6.7K views
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Sylvie Courvoisier - La Goualante De L'Idiot

Lokto Tang • 649 views