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'''Le Quan Ninh''' is a [[French people|French]] [[percussionist]] active in [[contemporary music]] and [[free improvisation]].
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''' Quan Ninh''' (born Paris, 1961) is a [[French people|French]] [[percussionist]] active in [[contemporary music]] and [[free improvisation]].


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He began studying piano at the age of 5, but turned towards percussion as a teenager. When he was 16, he entered the National Conservatory in [[Versailles]]. During this time he discovered [[free jazz]]. After graduating, he taught percussion for 3 years at a conservatory in [[Bondy]], France while performing with contemporary music, dance, and theater groups often using self-taught techniques and [[found objects]] in his improvisation.


[[Category:Jazz musicians|Ninh, Le Quan]]
In the 1980s Ninh collaborated with Daunik Lazro, [[Michel Doneda]], Serge Pey, [[Peter Kowald]], [[Butch Morris]], and Nicolas Peskine’s ''Compagnie du Hasard''.
[[Category:Free improvisation|Ninh, Le Quan]]

[[fr: Lê Quan Ninh]]
In 1992 Ninh founded the ''Association La Flibuste'' which organized and presented improvisational artistic events across genres.
He is a member of the multi-media percussion ensemble ''Quatuor Helios'' and, along with cellist [[Martine Altenburger]] , a founder of the ''Hiatus Ensemble''.

==External links==
*[http://www.lequanninh.net Homepage]
*[http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mlequan.html Biography and list of releases]
*[http://www.fmp-label.de/freemusicproduction/musiker/lequanninh.html FMP releases]
*[http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/993 Le Ventre Négatif album review]

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[[Category:French jazz musicians]]
[[Category:Free improvisation]]
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Revision as of 22:36, 14 February 2011

Le Quan Ninh is a French percussionist active in contemporary music and free improvisation.