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Raphael Pannier (born 1990) is a French drummer and composer.

Biography
Raphaël Pannier is a drummer and composer born and raised in France in 1990.

After studying classical music and drums around Paris, France, he moves to the USA in 2010 to study at Berklee College of Music (Boston) until 2014, and at the Manhattan School of Music (New York) from 2015 to 2017.

Living in New-York from 2014 to 2020, he has the opportunity to perform and tour with different jazz musicians such as Chad Lefkowitz-Brown ; Steve Wilson; Marcos Valle ; Emil Afrasiyab ; Manuel Valera ; and more.

In 2016, he wins the First Prize of the biennal, international competition “Six Strings Theory” led by legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour, and judged by drummers Dave Weckl and Simon Philipps, among others. He tours and records with Lee Ritenour that same year, in USA and Japan.

In 2019, Raphael Pannier records “FAUNE”: his first album as a leader, with Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone); Aaron Goldberg (piano); François Moutin (upright bass); and Giorgi Mikadze (classical piano). Miguel Zenón is also in charge of the artistic direction. “FAUNE” is released in September 2020 under the label French Paradox and is highly exposed to the international jazz press. It is elected “#3 Best Debut Album 2020” by the NPR Jazz Jury ; “Revelation” by JazzMagazine (France) ; and receives the maximum recognitions in music magazines such as JazzLife (Japan), BBC Music Magazine (UK) ; All About Jazz (USA) ; Jazz’N More (Switzerland) ; Stereophile (USA) ; Slate (USA), The Mercury News (USA) , France Musique (France) , and more.

In March 2020, he is elected a recipient of the French-American Cultural Exchange grant in view of a second album as a leader.

Since September 2020, Raphael Pannier is also a faculty member at the American School of Modern Music in Paris, France.

"an imaginative colorist and a master of textures " Downbeat Magazine, 2020

"a force in Jazz" The Mercury News, 2020

"a most notable new voice" All About Jazz, 2020