Franck Cottet Dumoulin has premiered in France with the New Flore ensemble “TaBar” by Magdalena Dlugosz for solo double bass and tape, as well as “Orchester Finalisten” by Karlheinz Stockhausen for solo double bass and tape performed in octophony. He participated in the creation of ” Danse orange ” by Jean-François Charles for double bass, clarinet, percussion and a dancer. He is therefore frequently invited as a soloist in various creations for double bass solo, or in other original formats.
In 2008, he created a jazz duo with pianist Moncef Genoud, in 2009 the intuitive music duo Corde Sensible with Jean-Marie Reboul and in 2011 a duo with organist Nicolas Hafner. Today he performs regularly with the Michel Tirabosco Trio that he created in 2002 with pan flutist Michel Tirabosco and pianist Jean-Marie Reboul .
Franck Cottet Dumoulin has a passion for contemporary music, modern jazz, improvisation, and especially for intuitive music which has become his main and daily “quest”. The double bass also gives him the joy and privilege of being invited to many concert halls: in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, Siena, Rome, Munich, Liège, Amsterdam, Delft, Krakow, Moscow, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Monte-Carlo, etc…
Franck Cottet Dumoulin’s career before his encounter with the double bass was just as eclectic at the Conservatories of Lyon, Annecy, Nice, Lausanne and Geneva: Choral and orchestral conducting, trumpet player, trombonist, analysis and writing classes (harmony, counterpoint, fugue) and consequently composition.
He studied musicology at the University of Lyon where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree and a teacher diploma (CAPES). During 5 years, he also directed a Big Band of which he was the initiator.
