Airelle Besson

French trumpeter born 1978 in Paris. She studied trumpet, violin, composition and harmony before pursuing Musicology at the Sorbonne University. Violin studies in Oxford were under the tutelage of Kato Havas. She became a student at the Jazz Department of Le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musicque et de Danse de Paris. There she became the first award of the Jazz Department of Le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musicque Et de Danse de Paris. Jazz greats such as Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau and Ornette Colman.