Violinist, multi-instrumentalist and composer crossing bridges between contemporary music, electronic pop 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.

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”).

Co-founder of several bands such as the prog-rock quartet SCP-055 or the large ensemble Ax√R + 15, he also receives as a composer numerous commissions from ensembles and festivals (Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Modern, Into the Open Music Festival, Ensemble Zar, Collective Elisha, L’impolie).

Influenced as much by composers such as Bastien David or Unsuk Chin, as by artists such as the mandolinist Chris Thile, he feels inspired by the singular universes of Miranda July or Bertrand Mandico.