Michel Godard

Michel Godard, born in 1960, has dedicated himself to the voluminous tuba with an unconventional, polyphonic playing technique and has belonged to the elite of European jazz for quite some time. He also exhibits his yearning for full-bodied sounds with a bass guitar. His interest in old music is the reason that he has also mastered the tuba predecessor serpent (with a snake-like appearance as the name indicates). In addition to the duo with Patrick Bebelaar, Godard is a member of the group of the oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil.   Pianist Patrick Bebelaar studied at the College of Music in Stuttgart. He was awarded the Baden-Wurttemberg Jazz Prize in the year 2000. He composes for the order of the International  Bach Academy and the German Literature Archives. Concert trips take him repeatedly to South Africa, a country for which he feels a lot of affinity. He has also performed on stage in India, Russia, the USA, Dubai and – of course – Europe. He has performed genre-overlapping with writers such as Peter O. Chotjewitz, Peter Härtling, Oskar Pastior and Wolfgang Kiwus. Bebelaar and Godard have already been working together since the year 2001, documented for the first time on Bebelaar's CD "You Never Lose an Island" (a live recording from June 2002). Godard has also supported Bebelaar in his performances of compositions commissioned for the International Bach Academy.