Amélie Grould

Amélie Grould is a percussionist and improviser. She comes from classical and contemporary music, but today navigates the universe of unclassifiable music, at the crossroads of many practices.

She is now part of some of the most exciting formations in the new music landscape, including Ensemble Nist Nah by Will Guthrie, Ensemble 0 by Sylvain Chauveau, Stéphane Garin, Joël Merah with whom she notably recreated Elpmas by Moondog or Femenine by Julius Eastman, AUM grand ensemble by Julien Pontvianne, Onze Heures Onze Orchestra, Ensemble Icosikaihénagone by Benjamin Duboc.

She recently joined the new projects Hypertemps by Clément Edouard with drummers Emmanuel Scarppa, Léo Dumont and Encre by Yann Tambour with Maëlle Desbrosses, Julien Pontvianne.

Since 2012, she has also performed in Superposition and Music for percussion by the no less exciting Ryoji Ikeda, which have taken her all over France (Centre Pompidou, Musica festival in Strasbourg, le Lieu Unique in Nantes…) and the world (Argentina, USA, Greece, Netherlands, Japan, Australia…).

At the Generator, she plays on Batterie fragile, a porcelain work by Yves Chaudouët.

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