Fabrizio Cassol is a Belgian saxophonist and the first user of the aulochrome

Aulochrome

The aulochrome is a new woodwind instrument invented by Belgian François Louis in 2001. It consists of two soprano saxophones that can be played either separately or together. The name comes from Greek aulos and chrome...

 (a double soprano saxophone).

He was born in Ougrée, Belgium. Between 1982 and 1985, he studied at the Liège conservatory

Music school

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 and obtained a first prize for saxophone while majoring in chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

. He graduated in improvisation

Improvisation

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 and composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

. Cassol began to tour with his first band (Trio Bravo, with Michel Massot

Michel Massot

Michel Massot is a Belgian tuba and trombone jazz musician. He studied at Conservatoire de Liège. He founded Trio Bravo with saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol and drummer Michel Debrulle in the middle of the 1980s. The band became Trio Grande in 1993 after the departure of Fabrizio Cassol, who was...

 and Michel Debrulle). In 1991, he travelled to the Central Africa

Central Africa

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n forest with colleagues Stéphane Galland

Stéphane Galland

Stéphane Galland is a Belgian drummer.He got his first drumset at the age of 3 and six years later, he entered the Huy conservatory, from which he graduated in 1987. When he was 11, he started to perform with jazz musicians like Eric Legnini and Jean-Pierre Catoul...

 and Michel Hatzigeorgiou

Michel Hatzigeorgiou

Michel Hatzigeorgiou is a Belgian bassist. He was born in Belgium from Greek parents. He started playing bouzouki at the age of 9, then switched to electric guitar at 11 and finally to electric bass at 14. He joined his first band "The Blackbirds" when he was student at Charleroi Technical...

 to encounter the Aka pygmies. On their return, the trio formed Aka Moon

Aka Moon

Aka Moon is a Belgian avant-garde jazz band. Saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, bassist Michel Hatzigeorgiou, and drummer Stéphane Galland are the founding members of the core trio...

, which remains Cassol's main project. Besides, he has performed with musicians like Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...

, Garrett List

Garrett List

Garrett List is an American trombonist, vocalist and composer.In 1950, he moved with his family to Southern California. At the age of 18, he already was busy teaching, playing and composing music . In 1965 he left California and settled in New York, where he attended the famous Juilliard School of...

, William Sheller

William Sheller

William Sheller is a French classical composer and singer.-Biography:William Sheller was born William Hand in Paris.He left school at 16 to study composition with teacher Yves Margat and later harmony, fugue and counterpoint at the Paris conservatoire. He turned to pop music after hearing the...

, Jacques Pelzer, Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century...

, David Linx

David Linx

David Linx is a Belgian jazz singer, composer and songwriter.-As guest:*Diederik Wissels*Trio Bravo*Viktor Lazlo*Maurane*La Grande Formation*Aka Moon- Notes :...

, Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography:Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris...

, Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born in 1959 in Bruges. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort ....

 and DJ Grazzhoppa, oumou Sangare, Doudou N'diaye Rose, Baba Sissoko, UK Sivaraman, ....

He has composed music for dance theatre. for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance...

's n Real Time (album)|In Real Time] and I Sais I, with Alain Platel (VSPRS, Pitié!, Coup de Choeurs], Comedie Française in Paris, Tj Stan, Luc Bondy and Philippe Boesmans. In 1995 he composed with Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born in 1959 in Bruges. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort ....

 the album Variations On A Love Supreme

Variations on A Love Supreme

Variations on A Love Supreme is a jazz album composed by Fabrizio Cassol and Kris Defoort. It contains variations on A Love Supreme, the classic jazz album by the John Coltrane quartet...

. He won the Belgian Golden Django

Golden Django

The Golden Django, named after guitarist Django Reinhardt, is an award for jazz musicians in Europe. The trophy is a creation of the French painter Raymond Moretti. It was first introduced in France , then in Belgium , in Sweden and Italy and finally in Denmark .-Belgian palmares:Since 1995,...

 in 1998 as best French-speaking artist. Since September 10, 2001, he's using the aulochrome

Aulochrome

The aulochrome is a new woodwind instrument invented by Belgian François Louis in 2001. It consists of two soprano saxophones that can be played either separately or together. The name comes from Greek aulos and chrome...

, a new instrument created by François Louis. He presented the instrument to the public in Paris

Paris

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 in October 2002. He currently resides in Brussels

Brussels

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 and teaches at the Etterbeek

Etterbeek

Etterbeek is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It neighbours the municipalities of the City of Brussels, Ixelles, Auderghem, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Schaerbeek....

 music academy.

Bands

• Trio Bravo
• Nasa Na Band
• Aka Moon
  Aka Moon
  Aka Moon is a Belgian avant-garde jazz band. Saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, bassist Michel Hatzigeorgiou, and drummer Stéphane Galland are the founding members of the core trio...
  
  
• Variations On A Love Supreme
  Variations on A Love Supreme
  Variations on A Love Supreme is a jazz album composed by Fabrizio Cassol and Kris Defoort. It contains variations on A Love Supreme, the classic jazz album by the John Coltrane quartet...
  
  
• K. D.'s Basement Party
• Eric Legnini
• La Grande Formation
• Pierre Vaiana
• DJ Grazzhoppa's DJ Big Band