Nicolas Ankoudinoff

Every new experience is for him an opportunity to cross borderlines between styles: popular and contemporary music, jazz, noise or ambient. Self-made sax player, studied at the conservatory of Liege with Garret List (with a first prize in improvisation), Frederic Rjzewski and Michel Massot.

Followed the classes of Daniel Stockart, Véronique Delmelle, Erwin Vann,…
A travelling musician, played with Lászlò Shari, Barre Philips, Fred Van Hove, Andre Goudbeek, Bart Maris, Baudouin De Jaer, Marrakech Gnawa's, Noise Maker’s Five , Rage Dedans, White Wine Dark Grapes, Kaat De Windt...touring in Europe and Africa.

He has created music for the theatre (F.Furthmann, H.Mathon, R.Elasri) and for films (Lileinfeld/Difenthal, Janos, Deren). His own composition works include Mogador : ten pieces for contrabass and saxophone – Mû and Nues: Solos for saxophones - Atmospheric Cyclic eSpace : for twelve musicians…

From 2003 to 2005 he organized monthly session in Brussels at the Kan' H cultural centre, called “Apolitical Revolution”.