French guitarist, composer, conductor and improviser, Olivier Benoit (born 1969) invests as much in the fields of free improvisation, experimental music as in jazz or contemporary and electronic music. He participates in projects mixing different disciplines: with the choreographer David Flahaut, Karol Armitage (2001), the trapeze artist Clémence Coconnier, with Charlotte Lanselle (plastic installations). He plays solo, in duo, has several formations within Crime (Optronic, Electropus, IMAO, the octopus) and Circum: Happy House, Circum Grand Orchestra, Hué (with Vietnamese musicians), and plays with many musicians: Christophe Marguet, Régis Huby, Bruno Chevillon,
Sophie Agnel,
Jean-Luc Guionnet,
Joëlle Léandre (Figures Erotiques, quintet with Simon Goubert, Jean-Luc Capozzo, trio with Carlos Zingaro), Edward Perraud, Philippe Deschepper, Jacques Mahieux,
Michel Doneda... He has collaborated with the Ars Nova ensemble for a contemporary opera directed by Philippe Nahon. He performs in many festivals and stages in France and abroad.
