Eve Risser is a composer, pianist, improviser and figurehead of the new French and European improvised music scene. She explores, founds and brings together artists from all horizons, Swedish, Norwegian, Malian and German: White Desert Orchestra,Ensembleensemble, Red Desert Orchestra, with whom she indulges in cross-fertilization and criss-crosses Europe. From the frontiers of jazz to prepared piano solos, Eve Risser dreams of boundless musical horizons.

She composes and performs the new Op.Cit creation, directed and commissioned by Guillaume Bourgogne, Hémisphère son and Grame.
March 21, 2022 at B!ME - Biennale des musiques exploratoires - in Lyon.

Eve Risser studied classical flute in Colmar, then improvised music in Strasbourg, before devoting herself to the piano. She then entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in the jazz class. She was a member of Daniel Yvinec's Orchestre National de Jazz from 2008 to 2013.

Founding member of the Franco-German-Swedish collective and label Umlautshe has been involved in a wide range of groups, from small to large. For twelve years, she criss-crossed Europe with Japanese drummer Yuko Oshima and their duo Donkey Monkey, which won a group and soloist prize at the Concours de La Défense, the French Jazz Migration and European 12 points Europe Tremplin.

In 2010, she formed the trio En-Corps with Benjamin Duboc and Edward Perraud, whose first album was noticed by the French and international specialized press (label Dark Tree Records 2012).
In 2015, Eve Risser uses mineralogical and geological data to imagine the fascinating journeys of the White Desert Orchestraa tentet that brings together the crème de la crème of the Parisian creative scene and a Norwegian.

In June 2018, she founded the Franco-Norwegian quintet the EnsembleensEmble (with Mari Kvien-Brunvoll, Kim Myhr, Toma Gouband, George Dumitriù), and in December of the same year, her second large ensemble opus the Red Desert Orchestraan ensemble made up of nine European musicians, with "Kogoba Basigui" on one side, a meeting of seven Malian musicians living in Bamako (Kaladjula Band), and "Eurythmia" on the other, which brings together the Red Desert Orchestra and three traditional Burkinabe percussionists.

For the past ten years, she has been carving out a personal musical language with the piano, whose keys she uses but also whose innards she prepares with various materials for percussive purposes. She releases "Des pas sur la neige" (timbral meditation on extended grand piano, Clean Feed label, 2015), "Après un rêve" (rhythmic trance on prepared upright piano, Clean Feed, 2019).

Eve Risser "Après Un Reve" Jazzfest Berlin 2019/11/02 - Arte Live from eve risser on Vimeo.

She has also taken on numerous composition commissions for the BBC Prom's and Jean Rondeau, the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, Anne Montaron's Créations Mondiales France Musique, the Orchestre National de Jazz, as well as for the theater (with Samuel Achache, with whom she has just created La Sourde, concerto contre piano et orchestre, Catherine Umbdenstock, Céilne Champinot) or performance installations (Guillaume Marmin)...

Upcoming tour dates:
Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia
* November 6 at Jazzdor - Strasbourg
*November 8 at D'jazz Nevers
Red Desert Orchestra & Kaladjula Band
*November 16 at Le Parvis, Tarbes
November 17 at L'Empreinte, Brive la Gaillarde
November 18 at L'Arsenal, Metz
November 19 at Théâtre de Sartrouville
Anw Be Yonbolo
*Sunday November 14 at 11am at Opéra de Reims with Césaré