Airelle Besson plays trumpet, flugelhorn and violin and is a composer, arranger and orchestrator. She has appeared on over 40 recordings and has performed with many of the leading names in jazz including Charlie Haden and Carla Bley in the Liberation Music Orchestra and with numerous jazz ensembles including the French National Jazz Orchestra. Airelle’s jazz quintet, Rockingchair, received the first prize at the Concours International de Jazz de La Défence and she is a recipient of the Django d’Or for New Talent (Trophées Internationaux du Jazz), and has been commissioned to compose and perform the music for the silent film for the opening night of the festival Cinéma de la Villette à Paris and by the Orchestre National de Lyon to compose and orchestrate music on the silent movie Loulou by Pabst, performed at the Film Festival Louis Lumière in October 2012.
