Thursday, November 09, 2023 | 7PM
Alliance Française de Manille | Multi-purpose Hall
209 Nicanor Garcia Street, Bel-Air II, 1209 Makati
Your monthly French cultural rendezvous
“Les Jeudis Culturels”
is back with Awé! Samy Thiébault at Alliance Française de Manille
Brought to you by
Alliance Française de Manille and
Embassy of France to the Philippines and Micronesia
join us for an evening of jazz music featuring Samy Thiébault and Felipe Cabrera.
Samy Thiébault is currently on a worldwide promotion tour for “Awé!”, an ambitious album recorded at the four corners of the world – Miami, Cuba, France, and São Paulo – and whose influences are as rich as they are varied. It was in Miami, Florida, where the saxophonist (selected by the French Embassy of the United States’ French American Jazz Exchange program) dreamt up this repertoire and where he played with the finest musicians of the Cuban diaspora. Back in France, the repertoire kept evolving with a string ensemble and chamber orchestra joining the project. It’s an invitation around the world, an invitation to créolité, to dance and creativity! “Awé!” is this music’s shout; it’s the shout of jazz.
Samy Thiébault received his musical education at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux before entering the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris to study jazz (class of 2008). Parallel to his music studies, he obtained a Master’s degree in philosophy, with high honors, from the Sorbonne (2001). He collaborates regularly on dance, theatre, and cinema projects, is frequently on tour with his quartet, and teaches at the Choisy-le-Roi conservatory near Paris.
ADMISSION IS FREE, but slots are limited, so be sure to register!
