Gilles Grethen

The 1994 born Luxembourgish guitarist and composer inherited his musicality. The son of two musicians began his classical music education at the age of 4. After small “detours” via the violin and the clarinet, Gilles Grethen discovered age 14 his passion for jazz and the guitar. He studied with Greg Lamy as well as with Jacques Pirotton at the Luxembourg City Conservatory where he completed his studies in jazz guitar in 2015. Since 2016, Gilles Grethen studies jazz guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken with Martin Schulte.

His quartet, composed of Vincent Pinn (trumpet, flugelhorn), Gabriele Basilico (double bass) and Michel Meis (drums), convinces with a rich sound diversity and compositions oscillating between traditional and modern jazz. Warm harmonies and lyrical melodies, combined with a captivatin