User:ValDam/Fred Nardin

Frédéric Nardin, aka Fred Nardin, born July 6, 1987, in Saint-Rémy (Saône-et-Loire, France), is a jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and composer.

He performs as a trio alongside Leon Parker and Or Bareket, as well as in the Amazing Keystone Big Band, which he co-founded, the Fred Nardin/Jon Boutellier 4tet, and the Switch Trio. A highly sought-after sideman on the Parisian jazz scene, he has played with Cécile McLorin Salvant, Stefano Di Battista, Evan Christopher, André Ceccarelli, Rodney Green, Scott Hamilton, Nancy Harms, Didier Lockwood, Charnett Moffett, Stochelo Rosenberg, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Sophie Alour, and Gaël Horellou, among others.

Early life and education
Fred Nardin comes from a family of amateur musicians: his father plays drums and harmonica, his sister plays the piano, and his brother plays the drums. After hearing his sister playing classical music (Bach, Mozart, and Chopin), Nardin took his first piano lessons at the age of five. From the age of nine, he studied classical music and jazz at the Conservatoire de Chalon-sur-Saône, and at the age of eighteen, he joined the Department of Jazz and Improvised Music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he graduated with a master's degree in 2011.

In 2013, his passion for writing and cinema led him to continue his studies at the CNSMDP with a film score music course led by Laurent Petitgirard and Marie-Jeanne Serero, from which he graduated in 2015.

Career
In 2010, he founded the Amazing Keystone Big Band with three of his former classmates from the Conservatoire de Paris Jon Boutellier, Bastien Ballaz, and David Enhco, a big band of eighteen musicians. Their first album, Pierre et le Loup... et le jazz, an adaptation for big jazz band of Prokofiev’s famous piece, recited by Denis Podalydès and Leslie Menu, won the award for Best French Jazz Album from the Académie du Jazz in 2013. This was followed by Le Carnaval jazz des animaux, read by Édouard Baer, released in October 2015, and Monsieur Django et Lady Swing, read by Guillaume Gallienne, released in November 2017. The Amazing Keystone Big Band has also collaborated with Quincy Jones, Rhoda Scott, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Zaz, Charles Aznavour, Liz McComb, Nikki Yanofsky, James Carter, Gregory Porter, Kellylee Evans, and Bill Mobley. In 2018, the band was awarded a Victoire du Jazz in the Best Band of the Year category.

In 2017, Nardin received the Prix Django Reinhardt (French Musician of the Year 2016) from the Académie du Jazz. The same year, he released Opening, a trio album recorded with Or Bareket and Leon Parker, which was praised by critics,

In 2018, he was nominated for a Victoire du Jazz in the category Rising Artist.

Teaching
In parallel with his career as a musician, he taught jazz piano from 2009 to 2015 at CRR Chalon-sur-Saone and arrangement and jazz piano at the Pôle d’Enseignement Supérieur de la Musique de Bourgogne from 2011 to 2015.

Style
Filled with swing and bebop, Fred Nardin's style is inspired by classical musicians such as Debussy or Fauré, as well as by jazz musicians like Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, and Mulgrew Miller.

Awards

 * 2013 : Best Jazz Album award from the Académie du Jazz for Pierre et le loup .. et le jazz with the Amazing Keystone Big Band
 * 2017 : Prix Django Reinhardt (French Musician of the Year 2016) from the Académie du Jazz
 * 2018 : Victoire du Jazz award for Best Band of the Year with the Amazing Keystone Big Band

As a leader or co-leader

 * 2017 : Opening, Fred Nardin Trio (Jazz Family)
 * 2018 : At Barloyd's (Jazz&people)
 * 2019 : Look Ahead, Fred Nardin Trio (Naïve)


 * With The Amazing Keystone Big Band


 * 2013 : Live à Jazz à Vienne (Moose)
 * 2013 : Pierre et le Loup et le Jazz (Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi)
 * 2015 : Le Carnaval jazz des animaux (Nôme)
 * 2017 : Live au Crescent (Nôme)
 * 2017 : Mr Django & Lady Swing (Nôme)
 * 2017 : Jazz Loves Disney (Verve)
 * 2017 : Django Extended (Nôme)
 * 2018 : La voix d'Ella (Nôme)
 * 2018 : We love Ella (Nôme)


 * Others bands


 * 2014 : At Home, Switch Trio (Black & Blue)
 * 2016 : Watt's, Fred Nardin/Jon Boutellier quartet (Gaya)

As a sideman
• ; With the Big Band Chalon Bourgogne

• 2009 : À l'arbre par la fenêtre (CDA BBCB)

• ; With Sophie Alour Trio

• 2014 : Shaker (Naïve Records)

• ; With Gaël Horellou Trio

• 2014 : Gaël Horellou Trio - Roy (le petit label)

• 2016 : Moral de fer (le petit label)

• ; With Zaz

• 2014 : Paris (Play on)

• ; With Véronique Hermann Sambin

• 2015 : Basalte (Jazz Family)

• ; With Patricia Bonner

• 2016 : A song for You

• ; With Jean-Philippe Scali

• 2016 : Low Down (Gaya)

• ; With Alex Freiman

• 2017 : Play it Gentle (Gaya)

• ; With Hugo Lippi

• 2019 : Comfort Zone (Gaya)

• ; With Nancy Harms

• 2019 : She (Gazelle records)