Guilhem Fourty Quartet

Guilhem Fourty Quartet

Jonah Hieb, trumpet.Brahm Sasner, piano.Isaac Coyle, bass.Guilhem Fourty, drums. $20 cover charge / byob. Students $10 Touring out of his New York base, rising young French jazz drummer Guilem Fourty brings a quartet featuring young colleagues on the New York scene including two with Bay Area roots, Brahm Sasner and Aidan McCarthy, and one, Jonah Hieb, raised in Seattle.  Fourty, born in Toulouse, France, began drumming at the age of five and went on as a youth to study at the Toulouse Conservatory of Music where he focused on jazz studies. His passion for drums led him to study also with well-respected educators including Daniel Dumoulin of the Dante Agostini drum school.  After continuing his jazz performance studies at Jean Jaurès University, Guilhem received a scholarship at age 19 to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was mentored by legendary musicians such as Dave DiCenso (Hiromi, Josh Groban, Cro-Mags), Neal Smith (Mulgrew Miller, Steve Nelson), Greg Hopkins (Buddy Rich Band), Ralph Peterson (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers), Billy Kilson (George Duke, Dave Holland), and Terry Lyne Carrington (Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Wayne Shorter). Guilhem worked as a session drummer throughout his time at Berklee, recording for artists including Zach Santos, Audrey Bussanich, Sam Chandler, Rakel Saranga, Lucas Ghelfi, Chopin Nanan, Richard Stenmeyer, and many more. By the age of 21, Guilhem had played with renowned musicians including Grammy nominee saxophonist Miguel Zenón; and in that same year, he joined the Berklee Jazz and Gender Institute directed by NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington.In 2022, Guilhem received an award from the Fondation de La vocation Marcel Bleustein Blanchet in France. He has also been recognized by the Downbeat magazine within the Berklee Advanced Jazz choir led by Ned Rosenblatt, winning twice the student music award. (2022, 2023). In 2023, he received the 1st annual Jazz Camp Fellowship Award, where he was mentored by Ulysses Owen Jr. and Allison Miller in La Honda, California, as well as the PASIC 23 Ed Shaughnessy scholarship.Guilhem completed his Master’s degree in 2024 at the prestigious Berklee Global Jazz Institute under a full-tuition scholarship.Now an emerging musician on the New York scene, Guilhem has worked and played with various artists Braxton Cook, Miguel Zenón, Danilo Perez, Mononeon, Bill Pierce, Jonathan Suazo, Roella Oloro, Ye Huang, Skylar Tang, Ian Coury, Zach Santos, Ciara Moser, Kieran Brown, Roella Oloro, among others, and has performed in many venues around the world (France, Uruguay, Columbia, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Brazil). He has performed in festivals such as the London Jazz Fest, J.E.N in Orlando, Reno Jazz Fest, Detroit Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, and Jazz in Marciac.