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Yvonnick Prene (born January 19, 1984) is a French harmonica player and a recording artist. ==Life and career== Yvonnick was born in Paris, France on January 19 to Guy and Françoise Prené. He began as a guitarist, later switching to the diatonic harmonica, and eventually settling on the chromatic harmonica as his primary instrument. He first began playing the harmonica professionally in Parisian clubs at 17, then started his studies at Sorbonne University, from which he received a master's degree in music (2011). While still enrolled at the Sorbonne, Prené relocated to New York City and was awarded multiple full-tuition scholarships at The City College of New York, (MICEFA, 2007), Columbia University (Alliance Program, 2008) and at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (Merit-Based Scholarship, 2009) where he had the opportunity to study with Lee Konitz and Reggie Workman among others. In 2012 he earned a bachelor's degree in music from The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music. He has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Donald Brown, Klingande, Romeo Santos, Scott Tixier,Gene Bertoncini, Rich Perry, Steve Cardenas, Jon Cowherd, Nate Smith, Ira Coleman,Thomas Enhco, Luques Curtis, Justin Brown, Donald Edwards, Lorin Cohen, Mike Moreno, Jared Gold, Laurent Cugny, Cyrille Aimée, Alexandre Tassel, Yaron Herman, Laurent de Wilde, Ryan Cohan, Victor Provost among many others. Yvonnick has played at Blue Note Jazz Club,〔http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=12894〕 at the Iridium Jazz Club,〔http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2119105〕 at Birdland (New York jazz club)〔http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/807417-lorin-cohen-new-york/〕 at Bern Jazz Festival, Lamentin Jazz Festival, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge,〔http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/reich/ct-lorin-cohen-20150606-column.html〕 at Jazz in Marciac, Jazz on Ubaye, Jazz Sur Seine Festival, at Le Duc des Lombards, at the Smalls Jazz Club. In 2012 he signed with the Danish Label SteepleChase Records and recorded “Jour de Fete” his Debut Album. In his four stars review Dan Bilawsky wrote “Jour De Fete is his recorded initiation into the fraternal order of jazz harmonica aces; he’s now a part of the club for life”.〔http://www.allaboutjazz.com/jour-de-fete-yvonnick-prene-steeplechase-lookout-review-by-dan-bilawsky.php〕 Yvonnick was also awarded the most prestigious distinction for a debut album “Revelation 2013″ by Jazz Magazine-France.〔http://yvonnickprene.com/?attachment_id=502〕 Follow up, released in January of 2013, entitled “Wonderful World” has received high praise from critics such as Ian Paterson (All About Jazz),〔http://www.allaboutjazz.com/wonderful-world-yvonnick-prene-self-produced-review-by-ian-patterson.php〕 Alex Dutilh (France Musique),〔http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/open-jazz/2013-2014/olivier-ker-ourio-l-accord-parfait-03-25-2014-18-02〕 and George Harris (Jazz Weekly)〔http://www.jazzweekly.com/2014/05/yvonnick-prene-padam-swing-wonderful-world/〕 to name a few. His newest duo album "Merci Toots" released in 2015 is a tribute to jazz legend Toots Thielemans with guitarist Pasquale Grasso.〔http://jazztimes.com/community/articles/163965-merci-toots-by-yvonnick-prene-and-pasquale-grasso〕 Yvonnick is the founder of (New York Harmonica School ),〔http://nyharmonicaschool.com〕 the first harmonica school in NYC. He has done masterclasses on conservatoria across the globe.Yvonnick is currently working on his fourth album and lives in Manhattan, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yvonnick Prene」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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