Jean-Christophe Feldhandler (born 1962 in Paris) is a French musician, percussionist and composer. His influences are multiple, from the polyphonic singing of the Renaissance to Alban Berg,
John Cage,
Morton Feldman,
Luigi Nono but also free jazz. He is one of the founding members of the Hêlios Percussion Quartet, dedicated to the interpretation of
John Cage's music and the creation of new works for percussion with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, George E. Lewis, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Vinko Globokar or Georges Aperghis. He works with the theater (with the directors Thierry Bedard, Marc Feld or Bruno Boulzaguet), with the visual arts (with the video artist Hugo Arcier and the visual artist Philippe Charles), and with the contemporary poetic writings (with the author Raharimanana). In his approach as a composer, he likes to work and explore the interpretation with personalities of different backgrounds—from written music to improvised music—such as the trombonist
Thierry Madiot, the double bassist Anne Gouraud, the cellist Martine Altenburger, the violinist Tiziana Bertoncini, the saxophonist
Michel Doneda, the pianists
Sophie Agnel and Michel Maurer, the guitarist and electroacoustician Vivien Trelcat, the percussionist Philippe Foch, the singers Aurélie Maisonneuve,
Géraldine Keller, Sylvie Deguy...
