Clastrier, Valentin - Valentin Clastrier

 

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  Clastrier, Valentin
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title 
  Valentin Clastrier
 
country 
  France/Brittany
 
mainstyle 
  Folk
 
style 
 
 
label 
  Innacor
 
year 
  2013
 
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French musician Valentin Clastrier (born 1947) is one of the few performers in the world specializing in contemporary music for the hurdy-gurdy; before Clastrier, the instrument was used primarily in the performance of European Medieval and folk musics.

He began his career as a guitarist, and was introduced to the hurdy-gurdy in 1970. His instrument has 27 strings rather than the conventional six. Since 2006 Clastrier works together with Wolfgang Weichselbaumer on a new prototype.

Clastrier's strikingly original compositions for the instrument (in both acoustic and electroacoustic versions) have been recorded, in collaboration with other creative European musicians (including tubist and serpent player Michel Godard, accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier, saxophonist/clarinetists Micha?l Riessler and Louis Sclavis, and percussionists G?rard Siracusa and Carlo Rizzo).

 
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