ABOUT
Jeune guitariste prometteur originaire de Genève, Louis Matute est reconnu pour ses qualités de perfomer et compositeur. Grâce à un goût prononcé pour la création, il s’est fait reconnaître à la sortie de ses deux derniers albums « How Great This World Can be » (2020) et « Our Folklore » (2022) qui lui ont valu un succès dans la presse et de nombreuses distinctions. Après avoir écumé les festivals suisses, il ne tarde pas à se produire sur les grandes scènes du Montreux Jazz Festival. Son dernier projet nommé Louis Matute Large Ensemble, est un concept à géométrie variable, savant mélange entre musiques actuelles, et musiques populaires latines, qui nous entraîne dans un paysage artistique unique, où la cohésion entre l’harmonie et les musiciens est totale.
En 2019, il reçoit le prix du Cully Jazz Festival, fait partie du programme de résidence des Artistes Associés à l’Abri, et est lauréat du concours Jazz Contreband. Musicien éclectique, il est sideman pour plusieurs projets à styles différents. Ces collaborations lui ont permis de se produire sur des scènes prestigieuses telles que Cully Jazz Festival, Jazz Onze+, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, Nancy Jazz Pulsations ou Millau Jazz Festival.
Louis Matute won the College Claparède Music Prize in 2013. He entered the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne where he studied with Francis Coletta and Vinz Vonlanthen for three years, then followed the classes of Wolfgang Muthspiel and Lionel Loueke at Jazzcampus Basel.
In 2016, Louis was selected as a Swiss artist by the HEMU to play at the Switzerland Meets Brazil festival in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, organized by the Montreux Jazz Festival on the occasion of the festival's 50th anniversary.
Eclectic musician, he is a sideman for several projects with different styles, including Gaspard Sommer (neosoul) and Phasm (modern jazz). These collaborations have enabled him to perform on recognized Swiss stages such as AMR, Chorus Jazz Club, Cully Jazz, Jazz Onze +, Montreux Jazz, Label Suisse and to share the stage with exceptional musicians such as Nicolas Folmer, Nguyen Lê, Matthieu Michel or Ben Van Gelder.
He leads his own quartet with which he released two albums in 2018 and 2020. In 2019, Louis receives the Cully Jazz Festival prize for "the quality of the personal project, the professionalism and the potential for development on the Swiss and international scene" . Louis was selected by the shelter's director, Rares Donca, to be part of the Artists Associated with the Shelter - Cultural Center for Young Talents - for the 2019 - 2020 season. In October 2019, he is invited by the Swiss embassy, the French Consulate and the Madajazzcar Festival to play and teach a week in Antananarivo during the Madajazzcar festival. He won the Jazz Contreband competition in October 2019.
Credit photo: David Amaral
En 2019, il reçoit le prix du Cully Jazz Festival, fait partie du programme de résidence des Artistes Associés à l’Abri, et est lauréat du concours Jazz Contreband. Musicien éclectique, il est sideman pour plusieurs projets à styles différents. Ces collaborations lui ont permis de se produire sur des scènes prestigieuses telles que Cully Jazz Festival, Jazz Onze+, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, Nancy Jazz Pulsations ou Millau Jazz Festival.
Louis Matute won the College Claparède Music Prize in 2013. He entered the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne where he studied with Francis Coletta and Vinz Vonlanthen for three years, then followed the classes of Wolfgang Muthspiel and Lionel Loueke at Jazzcampus Basel.
In 2016, Louis was selected as a Swiss artist by the HEMU to play at the Switzerland Meets Brazil festival in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, organized by the Montreux Jazz Festival on the occasion of the festival's 50th anniversary.
Eclectic musician, he is a sideman for several projects with different styles, including Gaspard Sommer (neosoul) and Phasm (modern jazz). These collaborations have enabled him to perform on recognized Swiss stages such as AMR, Chorus Jazz Club, Cully Jazz, Jazz Onze +, Montreux Jazz, Label Suisse and to share the stage with exceptional musicians such as Nicolas Folmer, Nguyen Lê, Matthieu Michel or Ben Van Gelder.
He leads his own quartet with which he released two albums in 2018 and 2020. In 2019, Louis receives the Cully Jazz Festival prize for "the quality of the personal project, the professionalism and the potential for development on the Swiss and international scene" . Louis was selected by the shelter's director, Rares Donca, to be part of the Artists Associated with the Shelter - Cultural Center for Young Talents - for the 2019 - 2020 season. In October 2019, he is invited by the Swiss embassy, the French Consulate and the Madajazzcar Festival to play and teach a week in Antananarivo during the Madajazzcar festival. He won the Jazz Contreband competition in October 2019.
Credit photo: David Amaral