Clémence Manachère

Projects

Hopscotch

w/ Niklas Werk, Tristan-Xavier Köster, Dirk-Achim Dhonau & Björn Lücker

Duo

w/ Polina Pohozha

Ranges Collective

w/ Mireia Pellisa Martín, Clara Torner i Chuflé, Polina Pohozha, Giula Pastorino & Ghazal Faghihi

Discography

Serpents et Échelles, w/ Helge Sunde, Max Boehm, Nico Bauckholt, Moritz Hamm, Dirk-Achim Dhonau, Patrick Huss

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Explosante, w/ Adrian Hanack, Boris Netsvetaev, Nico Bauckholt, Moritz Hamm, Patrick Huss

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Clémence Manachère Unterwasser, w/ Kamil Khusiainov, Zyunzo García, Nico Bauckholt, Moritz Hamm, Patrick Huss

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Press & Bio

“Acute listening – intense but settled”
– Mark Nauseef

“With her flute she breathes, tickling out this rough timbre. […] Clémence Manachère is constantly reinventing herself – an authentic water nature.”
– Peter Helling, NDR journalist

“It’s been a long time since someone has been working so distinctive on the ensemble’s common sound right from the start. Also it’s not often the case that the collective sound is that present as in the musical fantasies of Clémence Manachère.”
– Michael Laages, NDR-Journalist

Clémence Manachère is a jazz flute player, soprano saxophone player, and composer from the seaside mountains of the southwest of France. The inspirations for Clémence’s music span from jazz to contemporary and classical music, with influences ranging from Frank Zappa to Brazilian music.

At age 10, Clémence began learning classical piano, studying for eight years at the Pau Conservatory of Music. At 14, she participated in the festival Les Enfants du Jazz and heard Elvin Jones perform live in Barcelonnette, her grandmother’s village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. At 16, she got her first flute and began learning the instrument as an autodidact. From ages 18 to 24, she studied architecture between France and Mexico City. After finishing studying architecture, she traveled to Brazil for a couple of months and since then dedicated herself to music. Back in Europe, she studied jazz flute at the Musikschule Berlin-Neukölln and, from 2017 until 2022, has been studying at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Fiete Felsch, Gabriel Coburger, Mark Nauseef and Marcio Doctor.

In order to bring her compositions to life, she launched her project Clémence Manachère Unterwasser in 2018 and has recorded three albums with Unterwasser, released in 2020 & 2022, and in 2024 under the JazzHausMusik label.

Clémence has received the “Mixed Generations” grant from the Feldtmann Foundation and the Jazz Federation Hamburg for a tour with Unterwasser and Norwegian trombone player Helge Sunde in April and November 2022.

In 2023 and 2024, Clémence was part of the Claussen-Simon Stiftung stART.up program and in January 2024, Clémence won the Werner Burkhardt Musikpreis.

In March 2024 Clémence was again on tour in Germany with Unterwasser and Helge Sunde and in May 2024 in the UK with the band “Oma’s Apotheke”.

In November and December 2024 Clémence has taking part of a five weeks Free Improvisation Residency in the Casa della Musica San Michele in Montaldeo, Italy. Since then she is part of the “Ranges Collective” with Giulia Pastorino, Ghazal Faghihi, Polina Pohozha, Clara Turner i Chuflé and Mireia Pellisa Martín and also part of the duo Clémence Manachère & Polina Pohozha.

Clémence is actually living in Hamburg and developing a composition/improvisation/language project called “HOPSCOTCH”, and also taking classes in Cologne with the flutist Camilla Hoitenga.

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