BIO
Margaux Vranken is a pianist, a composer and an arranger. With a mixed and complete musical training : classic training (piano, music theory) for more than 10 years, chorist at the Youth Choir of Royal Opera La Monnaie, piano jazz at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Margaux is carrying out several ongoing projects.
She founds the quartet PINTO in 2012 and offers a bitter-sweet, delicate, bright and appealing jazz. The band wins the Audience Prize in the scope of the Brussels Jazz Marathon contest in 2014. PINTO finishes its monthly residency at the Sounds Jazz Club with a critical and public success at the Mithra Jazz festival in Liège in 2015.
Margaux recently graduated from a Master's degree in Contemporary Performance at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. She studied with Danilo Pérez, Terry Lyne Carrington, Ben Street, Joe Lovano among others.
Margaux currently lives between Los Angeles, CA and Brussels, Belgium. She will release her third album "Songbook" (Igloo Records) in November 2022.
13th of December 2022: Margaux Vranken 4tet @ the Music Village, Brussels, 8.30pm
14th of December 2022: Margaux Vranken "Songbook" CD Release @ Jacques Pelzer Jazz Club, Liège, 8.30pm
15th of December 2022: Margaux Vranken Piano Solo @ Horse's Tale, Hasselt, 8pm
21st of December 2022: Margaux Vranken Opening jam Session @ Sounds Jazz Club, Brussels, 9pm
22nd of December 2022: Margaux Vranken Piano Solo @ Horse's Tale, Hasselt, 8pm
14th of January 2023: Margaux Vranken Trio @ Horse's Tale, Hasselt, 8pm
For the detailed schedule, please click here
SHOWS
PROJECTS
SONGBOOK
RELEASE ON NOVEMBER 18, 2022 ON IGLOO RECORDS
"Songbook" is a set of instrumental and/or vocal songs that reflect the full color palette of Margaux Vranken's compositions.
This album is the result of several collaborations with artists whose work Margaux admires. Longtime musical companions, Fil Caporali (Brazil, bass), Daniel Jonkers (Netherlands, drums), Tom Bourgeois (France, saxophone) and Lior Tzemach (Israel, guitar) joined the “Songbook” project quite naturally and brought their musicality and their personality.
Aneta Nayan (Poland, vocals), with whom Margaux has worked regularly for almost 10 years, wrote almost all of the lyrics for this project.
As usual, Margaux invited singers to come and put their voices on her compositions. On this album, we can hear Stacy Claire (France, vocals) (“Goodbye, “Songbook”), as well as Aneta Nayan (Poland, vocals) (“A Light Within”).
"Songbook" is in line with the album "Purpose": a set of moods, emotions and musical surprises all in finesse and sophistication.
“Songbook” is the third collaboration between Belgian label Igloo Records and pianist-composer Margaux Vranken.
CONSTELLATIONS
TO BE RELEASED IN 2023
Margaux Vranken - piano, compositions
Farayi Malek - voice
Lior Tzemach - guitar
Luca Alemanno - bass
Diego Alvarez - percussion
"Constellations" is the result of the long-time friendship and musical collaboration between Margaux Vranken (piano, compositions) and Farayi Malek (voice). Farayi and Margaux have met at the Berklee College of Music and never stopped collaborating ever since.
Come back in 2023 for more information about this new project!
MUSIC
MEDIA
PURPOSE - ALBUM TEASER (2020)
PURPOSE - MUSIC VIDEO (2020)
MARGAUX VRANKEN AT BERKLEE
Berklee Global Jazz Institute 2018
MARGAUX VRANKEN QUARTET IN BELGIUM (2020)
with Sylvain Debaisieux (sax), Victor Foulon (bass) and Matthias de Waele (drums)
Copyright 2022 Margaux Vranken
