catherine delaunay
clarinets, basset horn, bagpipe

Catherine Delaunay is titular of a first price of clarinet and a price of chamber music of the
Lyon CNSM

She works regularly with most of the big bands of Laurent Dehors
(like Tous Dehors) and
Luc Lemasne (franco-cuban creation Le Manacuba in Havana and Paris) and she practice all the
clarinets, including the basset horn.

Improviser and composer, she recorded an remarked album in duet with the drummer Bruno
Tocanne
and they played together
since 2000 in many countries like in Poland, Ukraine, Japan
(with Dave Burell), in Montréal and in many festivals in France...
She has created the little brass band "Y'en a qui manquent pas d'air"
with Daniel Casimir,
Didier Havet, Bruno Tocanne and Lionel Martin.... A first record was done in 2004.

She also played with the orchestras of Daniel Goyonne, Jean-Marie Machado, Claude Tchamitchian ...
and played a long time with Bruno Tocanne for Agapes in Lyon, inviting some of famous musicians
like Denis Badault, Louis Sclavis, Emmanuel Bex, Serge Lazarevitch....
She played with Jean-Philippe Viret,
Alain Blesing, Senem Diyici....

2005 / She actually plays
with Régis Huby in the Lambert Wilson's
Orchestra, with the new Bruno Tocanne Trio in company of Laurent Dehors, in trio with Benot
Dunoyer
and Edouard Ferlet....