Isabelle Duthoit

Isabelle Duthoit – clarinet & voice
* 1970

Qualifications
1989: first prize of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Regional Tours
1990: first prize of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Regional de Paris
1995: DESM, Graduate Diploma of Music CNSMD Lyon
1997: the Certificate of Aptitude
1997: Appointed professor of clarinet and improvisation at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Département d'Evry (Essonne)
1995 - 2004: co-director of the festival Fruits de  Mhère, les champs de l'improvisation with Jacques Di Donato - international festival of artistic creation in rural area
2008: winner at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto Japan,
she lives and works her voice project  for 8 months, she studies
- The Otsuzumi, Noh drum with Taniguchi sensei,
- The Gidayu, art of reciting the bunraku theater, puppet theater with Sakiho sensei,
- Iaido the art of drawing the sword with sensei Yamakoshi,

Contemporary Music
During his musical career she turned early to contemporary music
Met composers, Georges Aperghis, Vinko Globokar, Daniel D'Adamo, Klaus Huber, Pierre  Jodlowsky, Gilbert Amy, Claire Melanie Sinhuber, Francesco Filidei ,Raphael  Cendo , Jennifer Walshe, Antony Patheras...
interprets the repertoire as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino , Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Helmut Lachenman ...

Improvised music
She finds her way in the world of free improvisation.
She plays with Franz Hautzinger, NYX ( Sophie Agnel, Angelica Castello) , Where is the sun ( martin Tetrault/ Dieb13/ Franz Hautzinger ), Uruk ( Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Franz Hautzinger) , IKI ( Anthony laguerre) , Soizic Lebrat, Yuko Oshima , Christof Kurzman, with l'ensemble]h[iatus (written and improvised music), with Système Friche «  Le chant des pistes » de Cacher Charles et Jacques Di Donato

She  created Bouge ( Luc Ex/ Johannes Bauer)  Triolid (David Chiesa , Laurent Dailleau) , Rose and Stomach (Jacques Di Donato, Xavier Charles Xavier and Tim Hodgkinson),  4 Walls + 2 (Phil Minton, Luc Ex, Michael Vatcher Veryan Weston). She was the singer in the experimental rock band  Fogo .Played  with Jacques Demierre, Jacques Di Donato, Bertrand Gauguet, Daunik Lazro , Phil Minton, John Tilbury, Keiji Haino, Michel Doneda … Sol 12, with the Poet Congress of Franz Hautzinger

Music & Theater
Compose the music for la chair de l'homme of V. Novarina by  Cie Tsara.,
Compose with Jacques Di Donato the music of L'ogre et la poupée  of Daniel  Lemahieux by Cie  Francois Lazaro
Creates Blanc music and video entertainment scenery around Japan with Jacques Demierre and Alexander Simon
Compose the music for Hic Sunt Leones of Stéphane Olry La Revue Eclair
Compose the music for the choreographic piece  Go Go Go said the bird  and Animaux de Béances by Cie Li (Luo)

Festivals
Music Unlimited Wels , Konfrontation Nickelsdorf, Ulrichberger Kaleidophone Ulrichberg, Saalfelden Jazz Sallefelden, Artact's St Johann In Tyrol  Autriche Son d'hiver Paris, , Météo Mulhouse, Musique Action Nancy, Europa Jazz Festival Le Mans, Jazz en Franche Comté, Besançon, Densité Fresne en Wouevre, Jazz d'or Strasbourg, France …  Archipel Genève, FMP Berlin, Banlieues Bleues Paris, Uzeste Musical, Musiques en scènes, Lyon, Total Meeting Tours, Sonic Circuit Washington, Jazz Budapest festival, Sibiu festival,, Roaring hooves festival Mongolia  HIFA Harare Zimbabwe,glatt und verkehrt Krems, FIMAV Victoriaville Quebec , Soundout Canberra Australie, Edge Audible Festival Perth Australie November Music, Hertogenbosch,  Huddersfield Music Festival, ...