Matthieu Marthouret

Matthieu Marthouret comes from Grenoble and received a college degree in Chambéry in 2001. Then he lived in Lyon for a while and recorded his first CDs followed by an intensive time in New York (at New School University). Marthouret has lived in Paris for a few years and put together a band composed of top-rate members.
The drummer Manuel Franchi is always a part of it. He comes from the Provence and played the piano as a child before he switched to drums. That is perhaps the reason for his extremely sensitive and communicative accompaniment, which has made him an outstanding drummer very much in demand in France and the reason why he has been awarded so many prizes.
Sandro Zerafa and Maxime Fougères alternate on the guitar in concerts and recordings. The former is not only the music director at the jazz festival in Malta, his place of birth, but has also earned numerous awards and played alongside of Manu Katché and Youn Sun Nah, among others. Fougères also has solid roots in the French scene, has played in the Timothy Hayward Quartet, among others, and toured through all of Europe.
David Prez is considered the most outstanding saxophone player in France of the last decade. He has toured internationally and played with numerous musicians from Jerry Bergonzi to Bill Stewart.  Nicolas Kummert is responsible for the wind section of the quartet, too – he and David Prez are both regular members of the Quartet. The Belgian contributes his intensive, sometimes also rough-edged tenor sound and proves that he can demonstrate just as excellent skills as a singer.
An interesting guest is invited time and again to the live performances of the quartet and has also left his traces on the CD: David Fettman on alto sax. He is known to European audiences in the meantime, including thanks to his debut at Double Moon Records ("Prelude", DMCHR 71091, 2011).