3rd Prize
Composer and multi-instrumentalist crossing bridges between new music, experimental folk and jazz, Hugo Van Rechem researches and experiments with contrasted, singular and innovative music. In 2013, while he was still studying intensively classical music at the Conservatoire of Lille, he won both the "Special Jury Prize" and the "Public Prize" at the Stéphane Grappelli International Jazz Violin Competition, sponsored by Didier Lockwood.
Wishing to specialize more fully in all forms of improvised music, he joined the jazz department at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2014 from which he will graduate in 2019 with a Master's degree. Co-founder of several bands such as the SCP-055 (noise-rock), the large ensemble un garage par jour or the experimental-folk trio poisons•phantome(s), he also receives as a contemporary composer numerous commissions from ensembles and festivals (Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Zar, Collective Elisha, L’impolie).
As an instrumentalist, he takes part in many projects whether in jazz (Yessaï Karapetian Quintet, Orchestre National de Jazz, Yumi Ito), pop (Rising Cloud Orchestra), theater (Petit Orchestre de Jouets, La Pieuvre) or minimalist/ambient music (Ensemble Social Silence "Music for Airports revisited" ).
More recently, he won the 2nd prize at the 6th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition in Krakow, received new commissions by Into the Open festival, Quatuor Kaija and ensemble le TM+ and will be touring with SCP-055 all through 2027 to celebrate the release of their first album.
Influenced as much by composers such as Bastien David or Clara Ianota, as by artists such as ML Buch or YHWH Nailgun, he feels inspired by the poetic universes of Colette Thomas, René Daumal or filmmaker Bertrand Mandico.