Imbert is a jazz saxophonist, bandleader, composer and music teacher. He is founder and artistic director of the Company Nine Spirit. Imbert was born in Thiais June 2, 1974. He learned to play the saxophone at the age of fifteen years by himself, then joined the Marseille Conservatory in the class of jazz Philippe Renault. He won first prize at the Conservatoire in 1995 with Jean-Jacques Elangué. He himself was an assistant professor in the jazz conservatory of Marseille from 2003 to 2006. In 1996 he founded the Orchestra and Hemlé Atsas-Imbert Consort groups (Emile Atsas (guitar), Vincent Lafont (piano) and Jean-Luc Di Fraya (drums)), with which it occurs especially on the stages of Jazz in Vienna , Nice Jazz Festival, and the Fiesta des Suds. It creates in Marseille in 2002 with musicians, sociologists, journalists, music lovers, the Collective's Interlock, short-lived, which defends a reflection project incorporating the practice of jazz in a broader vision of society. In 2003, he won the program "Villa Médicis Hors les Murs" 1. for his research on sacred music in jazz, performed for six months in New York. Therefore, this trip became founding element compositions of Raphael Imbert2. Imbert developing an educational project that puts into practice at the Conservatory of Marseille since 2003 and in many seminars, such as the Jazz Festival in Cluny and training of street arts of Fai'art. It offers a master class in improvisational approach to chamber music ensembles. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Jazz Orchestra from September 2004 to September 2007 and won his group Project Newtopia great price band and the second soloist prize at the 28th National Jazz Competition Defense in June 2005. He has composed for film and television projects Carrese Philippe and Isabelle Boni-Claverie. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.