After studying classical trumpet at the Conservatories of Liège and Mons, he obtained a 1st Prize in jazz trumpet and jazz harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with a stay at the Manhattan School in New York and obtained a Master of Arts in trumpet-jazz at the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.
Composer, arranger and jazz trumpeter, he worked for more than 10 years with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, directed the Jazz Station Big Band for more than 10 years, proposed his own MP4 quartet and led a freelance career allowing him to work in Europe and in the United States some big names in music such as Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Bill Holman, Kenny Werner, Bob Mintzer, Tom Harrell, Dave Liebman, William Sheller, Calvin Owens, Jo Lemaire, Benny Goodman's Sound Orchestra... and in Belgium with the cream of Belgian jazz such as Bruno Castellucci, Stéphane Galland, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Fabrice Alleman, Phil Abraham, Benoît Vanderstraeten, Michel Herr, Charles Loos, Richard Rousselet, Bert Joris, Frank Vaganée ......
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After studying classical trumpet at the Conservatories of Liège and Mons, he obtained a 1st Prize in jazz trumpet and jazz harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with a stay at the Manhattan School in New York and obtained a Master of Arts in trumpet-jazz at the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.
Composer, arranger and jazz trumpeter, he worked for more than 10 years with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, directed the Jazz Station Big Band for more than 10 years, proposed his own MP4 quartet and led a freelance career allowing him to work in Europe and in the United States some big names in music such as Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Bill Holman, Kenny Werner, Bob Mintzer, Tom Harrell, Dave Liebman, William Sheller, Calvin Owens, Jo Lemaire, Benny Goodman's Sound Orchestra... and in Belgium with the cream of Belgian jazz such as Bruno Castellucci, Stéphane Galland, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Fabrice Alleman, Phil Abraham, Benoît Vanderstraeten, Michel Herr, Charles Loos, Richard Rousselet, Bert Joris, Frank Vaganée ...
Professor of trumpet-jazz at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels since 2005, Michel Paré offers each year projects highlighting students from trumpet, brass and jazz ensemble classes in a subject drawn from the history of jazz and parallel music such as "Birth Of The Cool" by Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Wheeler, Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, Lester Bowie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa, West Coast Jazz, "Share The Music" (jazz & classical)...
Jazz musician and teacher, he has participated in the recording of around twenty albums as leader and sideman.
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