Jean-Pierre Rasle

Collaborative performer with:
- Simon Poulter : computer art.
- Diana Winkfield : interactive art.
- Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart / Deep Space / English Roots Band : world music, dub-reggae/ambient-trance ,
- The Albion Band : folk-rock.
- The Cock & Bull Band, Monsieur Pantin, Jean-Pierre Rasle & the Dancing Drones : folk dance-fusion).
- Les Fêtes Galantes, Folies Bergères, Pastorales, The Dance'n Drones Band : baroque-folk.
- Ex-Cathedra, Palladian Ensemble, Ensemble Sonnerie : . baroque orchestral..
- Chalemie : baroque/Commedia dell’Arte.
- Gabriel Yacoub : new and traditional French music.
_ Alec Dankworth Quintet : jazz.
- Matthew Spring and Sara Stowe : contemporary.
- Trading Faces : mime/mask.
- Tractatus, Parallèles : improvisation, folk-fusion.

RESUME
1999-2006: tours internationally with Jah Wobble's English Roots Band in Canada, Ireland and England, Music Festivals in France, Holland and Scotland.
-Research for edition, translation and publication of 17th century manuscript: "Jean de la Mer".
-Commissioned to translate and edit "Jouer de la Cornemuse" method, published.
-Participates in Jah Wobble 's film score for "Furie", official French entry to Berlin Film Festival , Digital Library soundtrack "The Sound of Jah Wobble", and in Holly Valance 's international song and video hit "Kiss Kiss".
-Commissioned to write and perform new music for the International Arts Symposium , Milton Keynes.
-Participates in the soundtrack of Channel 4 's sitcom "Monarch of the Glen".
-Selected as solo performer by Bampton Classical Opera for the first world staged revival of Paisiello's 1787 opera "Nina".
1998-2003: -Participates in six CD recordings, and tours internationally with Jah Wobble & Deep Space , including two American tours, English Contemporary Music Network tour, Music Festivals in Greece, Turkey, Spain and Belgium, Eclipse and London Contemporary Music Festivals, Tate Library 's William Blake Celebrations.
1998-2000: Commissioned to complete the French entry in The Rough Guide to World Music .
-Participates in the soundtrack of BBC 2 's programme "Century Road".
-Commissioned to write French folk entry in the latest edition of The Groves Dictionary of Musicians .
-Solo performance selected for the International Art Symposium , Kaunas, Lithuania.
-Commissioned to write new music for Simon Poulter's multimedia exhibition, Brighton Festival .
-Commissioned to research, write, compose for, and participate in five radio programmes for BBC Radio 3 "Singing the Goat, Secret Music of the Auvergne", selected for Sony Awards .
-With Monica Huggett's Ensemble Sonnerie , world premiere of programme "Noël, Noël", London Wigmore Hall and Oxford Holywell Rooms .
1997-1998: -World premiere of "Cornemusiques, Extraordinary Story of the Pipes", South Bank Centre , London, original music and text commissioned by BBC Radio 3 .
-Commissioned to write new music for >strong>Diana Winkfield..'s Exhibition "Revealing & Concealing", Cable Street Gallery , London, and Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery .
-With The Palladian Ensemble , first complete recording of Nicolas Chédeville's "Les Saisons Amusantes", Baroque chamber arrangements of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" for drone instruments.
-Creation of promotions, record and publication company Dance & drones and ensemble Parallèles to explore and promote Early, Folk and Contemporary music.
-Awarded Arts Council Research and Development grant with computer artist Simon Poulter to create audio-visual interactive CD Rom and multimedia performances of philosopher Wittgenstein's "Tractatus". Premiere of pilot project for The Old Library Gallery , Bridport.
1996-2005: -Participates in six CD recordings, and tours internationally with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart including World Music Festivals in France, Greece, Japan and Belgium, The Hague Jazz Festival, Edinburgh 'Hogmanay', London, Brighton and Trowbridge International Music Festivals.
1996-98: -With Folies Bergères , research, arrangements and performance of first modern recreation of 18th Century French 12th Night celebration, Wigmore Hall , London.
-Recording and broadcast of programme "Cornemusiques, Extraordinary Story of the Pipes" commissioned by BBC Radio 3 , followed by Canadian solo performing tour.
-Solo and joint recording for Ex Cathedra Baroque orchestra and choir of French Baroque Christmas programme, and first performance, Birmingham Symphony Hall .
-New drone music selected for Art-PR exhibition "Counter Marketing", Fabrica Gallery , Brighton and Hull Time-based Art with Simon Poulter .
-New music for drone instruments commissioned for the Dance'n Drone Festival, South Bank Centre , London.
-With Chalemie , co-researcher, arranger and performer of three semi-staged Baroque dance-musical dramas, premiered at the Purcell Rooms , London, followed by British Early Music Network -sponsored tour.
1994-95: -Musical director of Tercentenary Celebration, Stony-Stratford. Composer, arranger, musician-in-residence, public performances with over 200 performers over 5 weeks.
-With Folies Bergères, Early Music Network tour sponsored by the Arts Council of Great-Britain , live broadcast recordings for BBC Radio 3 "Music Restored" programme, featured on BBC Radio 4 "Kaleidoscope" programme.
-Musical director, composer and performer for Stantonbury Campus Theatre , Milton Keynes, new production of Shakespeare's "Tempest", sponsored by Southern Arts .
-Selected as solo performer by Ex Cathedra Baroque orchestra and choir for the first world semi-staged revival of Lully's 1677 opera "Isis".

1993: -Solo performer at Edinburgh International Festival of own music-theatre creation "Cornemusiques", sponsored by the Commission for New Towns. Live recording selected by BBC Radio Scotland for their "Best of the Fringe" programme: "The Usual Suspect".
-Musician-in-residence, performer and organiser of concerts, and masterclass at "Ashington Eurofest", for Folkworks , Northumberland, sponsored by Northern Arts.
-Composer, workshop leader and musical director of new creations for the mime/theatre company Trading Faces .
-Organiser, composer and arranger of performances as part of the "Bucks in Europe" European Arts Festival .
I991-95: -Musician and co-arranger for the Brunton Theatre Company 's Edinburgh International Festival Production of "The Bruce".
- British Council -sponsored Baroque music festival, Tarentaise, France with Les Fêtes Galantes .
-Southern Arts-sponsored tour with ethnic dance-fusion group Cock & Bull Band .
-Musical director and co-performer of five plays based on the National Theatre productions of Tony Harrison 's "The Mysteries" cycle and Flora Thompson 's "Lark Rise" series for Stantonbury Campus Drama Group, Milton Keynes. Composer and arranger of all the incidental music. Subsequently issued on four CDs, cassettes and LP.
-Throughout France, Belgium and Canada, over 250 performances of Music-theatre solo production "Cornemusiques" as performer, composer, arranger and writer. Audience of over 10,000 over four years.

1992-94: -Release of solo recording "Cornemusiques" CD/Cassette.
-Solo performer at Lincoln, Sheffield, Harwich, and High Wycombe's European Arts Festivals .
-Solo and group performer at the Garden Festival Wales, Ebbw Vale and Beverley Festival, -Edinburgh International Festival and British Council -sponsored performance at the European 'Brosella 92' Festival, Belgium, with Cock & Bull Band .
-Extensive duo tours ot the U.S.A., Canada, Holland, Belgium and the U.K. with Gabriel Yacoub of French Folk-rock giants Malicorne .

1988-1992: · BBC Radio 4 special solo "Kaleidoscope" programme selected for "Pick of the Week" and BBC World Service : "Chant, Drone and Bellows, the Real Sounds of France".
·Solo performer for Folkworks, National Garden Festival, Gateshead.
·Studies Baroque music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Stephen Preston .
·Commissioned to write new music for Interaction Milton Keynes, sponsored by Milton Keynes Development Corporation, subsequently issued on three CDs and cassettes with The Cock & Bull Band .
·Solo and group performer and lecturer for John Dankworth and Cleo Lane 's "Stables' Easter Music Courses", Wavendon Allmusic Plan, Bucks.
·Solo lecture-recital British tours for the Alliance Française , French Foreign Office-sponsored.
·Winner of Northumbrian 1/2 long Pipers' Competition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, selected for "Look North" television appearance.

1982-84: ·Composer, researcher, arranger and performer with The Albion Band. All major festivals and many radio and television appearances in Great-Britain and Europe, featured on six CDs/LPs.

1978-2010:·Founder member, researcher, arranger and composer with The (Hemlock) Cock & Bull Band . All major British folk festivals, many live appearances on BBC Radio 2 , recorded nine CDs/LPs/Cassettes.

1967-74: ·Postgraduate lecturer in English and French as a foreign language, E.N.S.A.E Institute of Aeoronautics, Toulouse, France.
·Research into French and English traditional music.
·B. A. in English, M. A. in English: "The Social Aspects of the Folk Music of England", Université François Rabelais, Tours, France. ·Trained as a recorder player.
·Baccalaureate in French, English, Philosophy, Art, History, Geography (A levels equivalents), Lycée Alain-Fournier, Bourges, France.

Born in Sancerre, Cher, France