Nicolas Dechêne
- Instruments : Bass, Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar
- Date of birth : 22/12/1975 - Liège
Nicolas studied in the Conservatoire Royal de Liege and got the First Prize for Classical guitar. At the same time, he got introduced to jazz and regularly visited classrooms of Garrett List, Frederic Rzewski and Michel Massot where he learned the art of improvisation and composition.
Since then, he has been a classical guitar teacher in music academies and, as a guitarist and a bass player, has collaborated with very diverse music bands playing all kinds of music (jazz, contemporary music, French song, traditional music, etc.).
He tours currently Univers Zero, Rêve d'Eléphant Orchestra, folk band Turlu Tursu, jazz-rock bands "Gansan" (meeting of a jazz quartet with two Berbers musicians) and "Follow the river". He’s been heard in company of Garrett List (Etat de Siège) and has also recorded on the album of Pierre Vervloesem “Rude”. He plays in the band “Sky” with Osama Abdulrasol and Melike, in the “Karim Baggili septet” and in the Géraldine Cozier trio (French song).
