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Biographie
Yohan Giaume (born August 31, 1969 in Grenoble, France) is a French composer, trumpetist, Producer and musicologist.

Yohan Giaume is the founder and leader of the project Whisper of a Shadow - Musical Conversations With Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

After studying trumpet, composition, orchestration, and jazz studies at the French Conservatories of Lyon, Chambéry and Grenoble as well as Ethnomusicology at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, Giaume has studied, lived and worked for various periods in Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Morocco and Louisiana.

Collaborative efforts have included work with artists including the Banda Municipale de Santiago de Cuba, Benito Suarez (Buena Vista Social Club), Kocani Orkestar, Juan Carlos Caceres, Felix Casaverde (Susanna Baca), Manu Dibango, Christian Vieussens, Marrakech Music Collective, New Orleans-based clarinetist Evan Christopher and the Minnesota Orchestra.

He is recipient of “Hors les Murs” Award (2012) from the Institut Français and the French American Jazz Exchange Award (2016).