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SUMMARY:MASTERCLASS - Rhythm & improvisation with the incredible LIONE
 L LOUEKE

The Auberge is extremely grateful to welcome the exception
 al musician LIONEL LOUEKE for a MASTERCLASS followed by a CONCERT.


 Place : Cultural space of the Auberge des Vergers

Time : 17 :00


 Admission : 20- (25- with concert at 21 :30)

LIONEL LOUEKE

Lione
 l Loueke, born on 27 April 1973 in Benin, is an internationally renown
 ed jazz guitarist. In 1990, Lionel Loueke moved to Abidjan in the Ivor
 y Coast to study at the National Institute of Arts and Cultural Action
 . He then received a scholarship to study in Paris at the American Sc
 hool of Modern Music from 1994 to 1998. In 1999, Lionel Loueke receive
 d a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, wh
 ich he completed in 2000.

Lionel Loueke began learning percussion a
 t the age of 9, but was influenced by an older brothers who played gui
 tar, which he began to study in his late teens. He saved $50 in a year
  to buy his first guitar. He couldn't change his strings, which ca
 me from Nigeria, and maintained them with vinegar. To change his strin
 gs, he used bicycle cables.

He got his first job by chance when a c
 lub manager heard him playing a guitar solo. He then played African po
 p and discovered jazz through a George Benson album sent by a Parisian
  friend.

Lionel Loueke successfully auditioned for the Thelonious M
 onk Institute of Jazz at the University of California in 2001, before 
 a jury that included Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Short
 er. He remained there until 2003.

In 2002, he began playing with tr
 umpeter Terence Blanchard, with whom he recorded two albums on the Blu
 e Note label.

Lionel's career then took off and he had the oppo
 rtunity to record and share the stage with artists such as Herbie Hanc
 ock, Charlie Haden, Avisai Cohen, Gretchen Parlato, Alison Wedding and
  many others.

https://www.lionelloueke.com/

https://www.youtube.
 com/watch?v=Bwpn4DlOxac&ab_channel=EditionRecords
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