Born in 1986 in Fribourg, Florian Favre has now completed his Masters degree in Compositition & Theory with DJANGO BATES and DIETER AMMAN at the High School of Arts in Bern (HKB).

After a brief experience in the classical world of piano, he began to study jazz at the Conservatory of Fribourg with Richard Pizzorno. He received his Certificate in 2007, with a special commendation from the jury. He entered the Swiss Jazz School the same year and had the opportunity to study with Andy Scherrer, Bert Joris, Frank Sikora, Patrice Moret, William Evans, Dejan Terzic, Colin Vallon, Andreas Scherrer, and Thierry Lang. In 2010 he was selected to be part of the DKSJ All Star project with Pierre Audétat. That same year he received his Bachelor of Arts and the Friedelwald grant.

As a leader, Florian Favre takes an active part in several projects, such as the Florian Favre trio, or his solo project. Lately he started two news project, “Rêves de gosses” (rap and jazz) and Fragments d’identités”. For further information see http://www.florianfavre.com/project/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.