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| Although he comes from Chantilly in France, Olivier Manchon and his music seem to come from everywhere. As a child, he studied both classical and jazz masters. He arrived in the United States in January 1999 without knowing exactly in which box he fit, effortlessly bouncing around between styles. Manchon has built diversity in a way that most string players never do. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, moved to Los Angeles and then to New York, where he found a welcoming spot in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. For almost three years, he made his way on Broadway, playing violin and guitar in the orchestra pit of the Tony and Grammy-winning musical Spring Awakening. He lent his violin skills to the string section of visionary indie rockers My Brightest Diamond; arranged beautiful string music for Sufjan Stevens's Run Rabbit Run album, performed with his OSSO project, and on his next album The BQE. Primarily, though, Manchon spent the most time concocting orchestral pop recipes with his wife Clare in the indie band Clare and the Reasons. Their first album The Movie hit in 2007, and their new album Arrow, released this past fall to great critical acclaim. In between all of these building blocks, Manchon found his own personal project, creating a combination of contemporary jazz and classical chamber music in small venues like Brooklyn's Barbes, where the Mini Orchestra was born.
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