Jordi Cassagne

Based in Brussels since 2014, Jordi Cassagne is a composer, bassist, double bassist, and violone player, originally from southwestern France. Trained in jazz at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (2009–2014) and later in early music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (2016–2019), he has explored throughout his career the alchemy of jazz and improvised music, modal traditions, early music, and alternative rock.

He composes and arranges for various ensembles, including Barbastelle, Limite, Cielo Vivo, Yiasemi, and his solo violone project, Soir Fossile. He collaborates and has collaborated with artists and ensembles such as Haratago, Geoffrey Fiorese’s Terpsichore, the Julien Marga Quartet, Haard, Omega Impact, About That Magic Circle (Mostafa Taleb), Un Poète à New York (Beñat Achiary / Pedro Soler), Le Bal de Marie Galante. With Haratago, he performs at international venues and festivals, notably at WOMEX, Babel Music XP, and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

His work has been praised by the music press: named Citizen Jazz and Best Jazz on Bandcamp for Barbastelle’s “Vestige Étésien” (2025), Jazz Magazine’s “Revelation” for “Bengalifère” (2014) and “Terpsichore” (2022).

Jordi also participates in orchestral and interdisciplinary productions, notably with Sasha Zamler-Carhart (Sponsus—2012), Graham Flett (Proposition of Fossils—2015), as well as with the Compagnie La Bâtarde, which blends theater and music (Anatomie d’un Silence — 2015) and Karyn Benquet with the Nederlands Dans Theater (Ensuing — 2013). 
As a composer, he composed an alternative soundtrack for the silent film “Limite” by Mário Peixoto. This project was premiered as part of the 2018 Sounds of Silence festival in The Hague. In 2026, he composed the music for the short film “L’Homme Sans Qualités” by Sofia Romano, starring Denis Lavant in the lead role, which was selected for the Molodist Film Festival in Kyiv.