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My Music Story

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Francis Darizcuren was born in Bayonne, to a painter mother and a music teacher father.

At 4 years old, first violin under the chin! The repertoire is classical: Mozart, Bach… Very quickly we discover his perfect pitch. Already within the folk orchestra, founded by his father Alfred: Estudiantina bayonnaise sponsored by Luis Mariano, he played the repertoire of Basque and Spanish folklore on the mandolin.

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In the 1950s, he discovered Jazz and Rock and understood that it was this path he would follow. As a reward for winning his 1955 Prize for Violin Excellence, his father gave him a Gibson Super 400 .

In the process, he obtained all his prizes from the Conservatory and joined the orchestra of the Casino de Biarritz.

It was in 1962 that he arrived in Paris in the midst of a musical revolution.

The tours follow one another: Ray Charles, Michel Polnareff, Chuck Berry, Claude François… 15,000 recording sessions for the most fashionable artists of the time: Johnny Hallyday, Serge Gainsbourg… We can also hear him in the Bande Original of over 400 films: Lelouch, Annaud… and during TV shows.

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Francis Darizcuren has always been driven by the desire to pass on his experience through a pedagogy that combines pleasure and efficiency. He devotes himself to writing methods which, to this day, are the benchmark for music professionals and state institutions “ SACEM Prize for Pedagogy”.

For more than 30 years, while continuing to practice, he has devoted himself to this transmission to allow emerging bassists to know the fundamentals of music in order to make them accomplished musicians and renowned and happy bassists.

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Testimonials

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MULOT

I spent three years of classes with Francis Darizcuren.

I remember the path I took from Champigny station to avenue de l'Ile d'Amour, and especially the fact that each time I took it with a big smile. Because Francis is passionate about transmitting his love of music to you.

He is also an enthusiastic man and a great teacher. Its courses are based on the solidity of classical teaching mixed with the variety of all modern music.

Do you know many of the teachers who are sight readers, multi-instrumentalists, endowed with perfect pitch and who, now at more than 70 years old, come under the Dream Theater and Daft Punk for his students?

His classes are complete (in every sense of the word) and have touched in me this need for absolute curiosity and love of music in general.

I owe him a lot and I know my journey wouldn't have been the same if he hadn't been there.

This is why I would like to thank him today for having participated in my musical development and his contribution to my life as an artist.

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