Sylvie Courvoisier


Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist and improviser.
Courvoisier was born and raised in Switzerland. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides.
Courvoisier has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 25 records as a leader or co-leader for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt Records and about 35 cds as a side person.
She co-leads the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet and leads her own Trio with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress. She leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra; Herb Robertson Quintet, with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser; Vincent Courtois Trio, along with Ellery Eskelin; and plays in different projects of John Zorn’. Since 1997, she also performs regularly in duo with violinist Mark Feldman. Since 2010, she has been working as a pianist and composer with the project of the flamenco dancer Israel Galvan "la Curva ». She received a Grants to Artist award.

Selected discography

As leader

As co-leader

With Mark Feldman
  • Music for Violin and Piano with Mark Feldman
  • To Fly to Steal – Sylvie Courvoisier-Mark Feldman Quartet with Thomas Morgan and Gerry Hemingway
  • Oblivia with Mark Feldman
  • Hôtel du Nord – Sylvie Courvoisier–Mark Feldman Quartet with Thomas Morgan and Gerry Hemingway
  • Live at Theatre Vidy–Lausanne – Sylvie Courvoisier–Mark Feldman Duo
  • Birdies for Lulu–Sylvie Courvoisier–Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz
  • Miller's Tale–Sylvie Courvoisier–Mark Feldman - Evan Parker- Ikue Mori
  • Time Gone Out – Sylvie Courvoisier–Mark Feldman Duo
With Mephista
  • Black Narcissus
  • Entomological Reflections
With others'
With John Zorn
With Erik Friedlander
With Herb Robertson
With Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, Sylvie Courvoisier, Matt Moran