Cyrille Lehn

Pianist, composer and improviser Cyrille Lehn began playing the piano at the age of three. He trained at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won five first prizes. His passion for jazz also led him to study at Boston's Berklee School of Music. A passionate improviser, he regularly accompanies silent films (Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Centre Pompidou) and gives solo and group concerts at festivals in France and abroad.
He has produced several compositions and arrangements, both for symphony orchestra and chamber ensembles (he is the author of a Vivaldi-Medley, commissioned by the Festival de L'Emperi in Salon-de-Provence, and a Mozart-Fantasy premiered at the Chapelle royale in Versailles). A lover of Yiddish and Gypsy music, he is co-arranger of the Sirba Octet.
Combining classical repertoire with jazz and French chanson from the outset, he regularly collaborates with a variety of partners. Cyrille Lehn teaches harmony at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and improvisation at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud de Paris.