Catherine Morisseau | pianist & composer

Catherine Morisseau is a Parisian pianist and composer residing in Lisbon for the past two decades.

Student of Colette Maze at the Conservatory of Bagneux, she studied Art History and Conception and Production of Cultural Projects at the Sorbonne in parallel of studies in piano at the classic music École de Musique de Paris and at the Jazz Hot Club of Lisbon.

Besides being an interpreter, and having participated in various projects like world music, Chanson Française, dance and video art collaborations, her own composing has been growing in these last years having resulted in the MYRIADES CD.
Melancholic, neoclassical, poetic, intimist and cinematographic are some of the words one could use to define her compositional work.

Another side of her work is the piano accompaniment of silent films, also with her own original compositions, being a  resident pianist of Cinemateca Portuguesa for more than a decade now. In that context, she had accompanied silent films, not only at the Portuguese cinematheque, but also at other Portuguese and French film theaters and festivals, with works by authors like Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Ozu Yasujirō, as well as the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès, among others.

Catherine Morisseau is now preparing her second record in an album that, going beyond the neoclassical and acoustic nature of her previous work, further ventures in electronic and electroacoustic music in a growing body of work of her own that she’s now presenting together with her first CD Myriades.

In later years, she has been travelling all over the country in her itinerant piano - a piano transported and stage of concerts, cine-concerts and musical performances, following her desire to creat another way to live music, one more poetic, original, closer to the public, nature and the world which has landed in parks and forests, train stations, storehouses, along the Tages, in musical poems of erotic nature.

 

 

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