Philippe Portejoie

Philippe Portejoie studied the saxophone at the Conservatoire of Nantes with Jean-Pierre Magnac, before becoming a student of Daniel Deffayet at the National Academy of Music of Paris. He won many prices as soloist and chamber music player (Leopold Bellan, International Competition of UFAM, International Competition of Chamber music of Paris, International Competition of Aix Les Bains…). He played and recorded with numerous French Symphonic Orchestras as well as from abroad: Orchestra of Paris, National orchestra of France, Philharmonic orchestra of Radio-France, Orchestre Colonne, Orchestre of Ile-de-France, Paris Opera Orchestra, Orchestre of Toulouse, Orchestre Pays-de-Loire, Philharmonie Slovak, Orquesta Sinfonica of Bogota…). Since 1986, he has shared his musical activities between the Duet saxophone-piano with Frederique Lagarde on the piano (9 recordings an d more than 250 concerts) and the Claude Bolling Jazz Big Band where he is the lead saxophone (more than 500 concerts and 10 recordings). Philippe Portejoie indeed shares his musical activities between classical music, jazz as well as studio and movie/TV artist. He has played all over the world with a lot of key jazzmen such as Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Dizzie Gillespie, Stephan Grappelli, Didier Lockwood, John Faddis, John Hendryx, Benny Bailey, and Roger Guerin, Martial Solal, Gerard Badini, Claude Tissendier, Marcel Azzola and Sylvain Kassap… Philippe Portejoie is Professor of saxophone at the CRR de Paris and Conservatory Paul Dukas in Paris. Philippe Portejoie is artist of Buffet Crampon and D’Addario Woodwinds.