Born in 1961 in Paris.
Classically trained, the percussionistLê Quan Ninh* has led a musical activity shared between interpretation of contemporary music and free improvisation since the beginning of the 1980s.
He was one of the founding members of theQuatuor Hêlios, percussion ensemble from 1986 to 2012 (creations by Jean-Pierre Drouet, George E. Lewis, Kaija Saariaho, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Jean-Louis Charpille, Daniel Koskowitz, Vinko Globokar, Giorgio Battistelli, Chrichan Larson, Luc Therminarias, Georges Aperghis, etc.)
With the cellistMartine Altenburger, he founded the ensemble]h[iatus, a contemporary music ensemble whose members are both performers and improvisers (creations by Vinko Globokar, Peter Jakober, Steffen Krebber, Jennifer Walshe, Anthony Pateras, Jürg Frey, etc.)
He is one of the voluntary artistic advisors of the Association Ryoanjia you festival Le Bruit de la Musiquewho develop – inNouvelle-Aquitainemainly but also well beyond – a work of creation, awareness and transmission dedicated to contemporary musical creation.
As an improviser, he devoted himself to several regular training sessions with artists like Daunik Lazro, Michel Doneda, Beñat Achiary, Dominique Regef, Paul Rogers, Peter Kowald, etc. and more occasionally met a very large number of others. He currently plays regularly in the trio Krči+Nwith Emilie Škrijelj and Loris Binot.
He has a privileged relationship with dance (Frank Beaubois, Marie Cambois, Clara Cornil, Olivia Grandville, Masaki Ivan, Patricia Kuypers, Fine Kwiatkowski, Yukiko Nakamura, Michel Raji,Kirstie Simson, Moeno Wakamatsu, Toru Iwashita,Emmanuelle Pépin, Anna Pietsch, Chikako Kaïo, Dafni Stefanou…).
He was one of the founding members of the association La Flibuste in Toulouse from 1988 to 2002, a collective of improvisers from all disciplines (music, dance, cinema and experimental video, performance, etc.) and participated in the collective for several years Ouïe/Dire .
Published in fall 2024 by Editions Artderien ,La Voie Négative, the ultimate revised, expanded and bilingual version of his reflections on the experience of improvising, different versions of which had been successively published since 2002, including by EditionsMômeludies and Publication Studio.
He has been president of the association since June 2024Lavior, which brings together French-speaking audio-naturalists.
