Clément Janinet

About

Clément Janinet is a French violinist and composer, currently artist in residence at the Atelier du Plateau. After studying with Didier Lockwood at the CMDL and then winning first prize in the Jazz and Improvised Music department of the CNSM of Paris in 2007, Clément Janinet won the 1st Prize at the Jazz à la Défense competition with the group Radiation 10. Passionate about African and South American music, he multiplies encounters and travels, and works on his violin around this music. He draws inspiration from it to develop his own playing techniques which he integrates into Jazz and Improvised Music. He has played with Antoine Hervé, Didier Lockwood, Ricardo Del Fra, Sylvain Rifflet, Han Bennink, Ramon Lopez, Mark Turner, Magic Malik for jazz and Mauro Palmas, Richard Bona, Orchestra do Fuba, Adama Drame, Cheik Tidiane seik, Akale Wube for world music. Currently Clément Janinet has been performing with the bands of Étienne Mbappé and the Prophets and Simon Winse (Burkina Faso) since 2007. Since 2017, he has been playing with trio Space Galvachers. He also leads his own projects, O.U.R.S including the albums "O.U.R.S" "Dance? and Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies III are called by the critics (twice ffff Télérama, TTT Télérama, Choc Jazz Magazine, Elu Citizen Jazz...). In 2019, he founded the string trio "La Litanie des Cimes". Clément Janinet has given more than 700 concerts in 35 countries