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My Take
Médéric Collignon hooked me with one detail: he picked up the trumpet at five. That early start, followed by formal training at the conservatories of Charleville-Mézières and Nancy, gives him the foundation to do what truly free jazz players do, which is break the rules from a position of mastery. Cornet, saxhorn, even his own voice as an instrument, he treats the whole sonic palette as a playground. The 2008 Django Reinhardt prize and his Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres confirm the establishment noticed. To me he reads as a restless, mischievous improviser, and those are exactly the musicians I most want to hear live.
Overview
Médéric Collignon (born 6 July 1970 in Villers-Semeuse, Ardennes) is a French jazz vocalist, cornettist and saxhorn player. He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mézières in 1984, and gained his diploma at the Conservatoire de Nancy in 1989. In 2009 he was awarded the Django Reinhardt prize by the Académie du Jazz.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Médéric Collignon
- Name (Japanese)
- メデリック・コリニョン
- Reading
- めでりっく・こりにょん
- Born
- July 6, 1970 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Dog
- Origin
- Villers-Semeuse, Ardennes, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- trumpeter / jazz musician / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- 2008 Prix Django Reinhardt
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Trumpeter — see all → · Jazz musician — see all → · More people from France →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.