As part of the 24-25 Cultural Season. Conditions for purchasing tickets on www.saisonculturelleplo.ch.
Passionate musician, talented multi-instrumentalist, Pascal Auberson has been exploring numerous artistic forms for 40 years, from song to free jazz, through theater, contemporary dance and film music. Today, he performs alongside saxophonist César Decker, his son, on the piano.
César Decker chose the saxophone as his instrument at the age of 13. After classical training at the Vevey conservatory with Antoine Auberson, his uncle, then at the EJMA in Lausanne, he played as a “sideman” in a number of groups. In New York, he auditioned at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and received an excellence prize which allowed him to undertake high-level training.
From Father to Son, the initial volatile title, logically became So Suites, according to the progress of the writing, the shaping of themes resurfaced from the treasures which never completely sleep in the song stores of Pascal Auberson or the ideas and desires for new notes from father and son. In March 2024, before a concert at the Benno Besson Theater in Yverdon-les-Bains, the idea emerged of inviting trumpeter Matthieu Michel, who also performed during this evening. The three musicians loved working together and decided to perpetuate this collaboration by integrating Matthieu during this new concert in Plan-les-Ouates.
Matthieu Michel learned to play the trumpet from Americo Bellotto in Vienna and Berlin. In 1992, he joined the Vienna Art Orchestra conducted by Mathias Rüegg. He has to his credit various collaborations and numerous records in different groups with Swiss and international musicians. In 2022 he received the European Musician Prize from the Jazz Academy.
In collaboration with the JazzContreBand festival (October 2024).