Fallen in the Stew

Patrick RAFFAULT

Accordion & accordina

At the age of seven, Patrick was fascinated by the magical sounds of the accordion. At about thirteen, he studied in Tours at the Academy of Music.

A couple of years later, he won first prize of oboe. Not long after, he became teacher of the Academy of Vendôme for ten years. Since then, he has met many people in the entertainment world like Richard Galliano while he was on a course of Jazz Festival in Souillac (in Cantal, the center of France). That has started his inspiration in Jazz Music.

At the end of four years working together, he achieved in 1993 first prize in classic orchestal' special arrangements and bring up to date classical point of vues in music recordings to 1992 as 1996. Since then, the will to discover different styles of music became even stronger and also the theater world, his gifted talent in arrangements are very interesting.