Bruno Angelini, a pianist and workshop leader, was born in Marseilles in 1965. He studied classical piano at the Music Academy of Marseilles, then he took up jazz. He returned to classical music at the age of 24, studying the works of Debussy and Bartok, as well as Messaien. He joined Samy Abenaim’s jazz improvisation class at Paris’s CIM jazz school. From www.bill Evans.net