Frederique Trunk

Who is Frederique Trunk?

Frederique Trunk was born in Colmar, France and graduated in 1986 from the Conservatoire de Music de Strasbourg with honors in piano, ear training and theory. She earned a Certificate of Chamber Music and Sight Reading and graduated with a diploma in musicology from the Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg.

In 1992, Frederique went to New York City to study jazz piano and harmony at the New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music Program with Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch and Maria Schneider. She has studied jazz piano and composition privately Art Resnick, Richie Beirach and Kirk Nurock as well as William Allaudin Mathieu and perfected her classical piano technique and teaching skills with Madeline Bruser.

As a soloist and bandleader, Frederique has toured in Europe, Japan, Morocco, The United States, Canada and most recently, Barcelona, Spain. She has worked with, and been influenced by many musical combinations from solo piano to quartets as well as larger groups such as salsa bands.

In 1996, Frederique formed a duet with Lebanese pianist Ramzi Moufarej. A year later they formed the musical collaboration Myriade. Using an unusual combination of two pianos, cello, the oud and percussion, their album Soukoun was released in the spring of 2001.