Lynn Cassiers is a Brussels based singer/soundscaper in the new jazz and improv scene. She has worked with leading contemporary jazz ensembles such as Octurn, Lidlboj, The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Mäâk, Naga, etc.. and she’s part of bands like Lilly Joel/Lilly Joel Plays The Organ (Jozef Dumoulin), Holsen&Cassiers (Hilde Holsen), Tape Cuts Tape(Rudy Trouvé, Eric Thielemans), Flying Nimbus (Manolo Cabras), Sylvaine Hélary ‘L’Orchestre Incandescent’, Airelle Besson Quartet, Oba Loba, Alexandra Grimal Naga & La Vapeur au dessus du Riz, Oriol Roca Trio featuring Lynn Cassiers, etc..

Besides performing solo and as a sideman, Lynn leads her own projects: ‘Imaginary Band’(clean feed 2018) and ‘YUN’(clean feed 2020). Two mid sized electro-acoustic ensembles that, despite a partially overlapping line-up, each have their own distinct sound and repertoire. (w Erik Vermeulen, Marek Patrman, Manolo Cabras, Bo van der Werf, Jozef Dumoulin, Sylvain Debaisieux, Ananta Roosens, Niels Van Heertum)

Lynn’s work suggests a wide variety of styles including free jazz, pop, rock, noise, film music, folk and ambient. Over the years she has developed a unique style, using electronics to manipulate her voice and create abstract sound textures in a multitude of musical contexts. Her work has been reviewed by the international press.

“…Lynn Cassiers, meanwhile, can safely be considered the most unique vocalist in Belgian jazz and improvisation…”(Enola magazine)

“…Cassiers is brilliant. She really couldn’t care less about genres and vested expectations: she creates her own sonic universe in which avant-garde pop (think Laurie Anderson), traditional jazz and free improv meet, in a wonderful mixture that avoids all the traps of doing this..”(freeJazzBlog)

“…Holsen and Cassiers are indispensable leaders of today’s generation of resolute musicians, moving headlong into a seductive, yet modest avant-garde that embraces all currents. They are the ones for whom Citizen Jazz continues to strive….” (Citizen Jazz)

BIO

Raised in a musical family and despite her early roots as a teenager singing in her brother’s cover band, Lynn was introduced to jazz at an early age. She studied Jazz vocals at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and had her first bands in such musical environment. Though soon enough her curiosity for contemporary music and other art forms drew her to the realm of ‘improvised music’ and ‘sound art’. She integrated a small set of electronics that ever since has grown around her musical needs.

Besides performing solo or with bands, Lynn has made music for theatre, silent movies and ‘live projections’. She performed around the world and had the honour to play with artists such as: Marshall Allen, Toshimaru Nakamura, Airelle Besson, Salia Sanou, Leon Parker, Lyenn, Akira Sakata, Vincent Glowinski a.k.a. bonom, Bruno Chevillon, Marc Ducret, Benoît Delbecq, Théo Ceccaldi, Gilbert Nouno, Nelson Veras, Pierre Perchaud, Oriol Roca, David Soler, Zingaro, Norberto Lobo, Joao Lobo, Erik Vermeulen, Manolo Cabras, Niels Van Heertum, Giovanni Di Domenico, Nick Roth, Gerda Dendooven  HSBG, Liu Heng, Brice Soniano, Daysuke Fuwa, Olifa Hsieh, Sylvain Lemêtre, Michael De Cock,…

Studies: ‘de Kunsthumaniora’ of Antwerp and The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Teachers; Rachel Gould, Kristina Fuchs, Natasha Röth, John Ruocco and Eric Vloeimans. Masterclasses; Jay Clayton, Dave Liebman, Mark Murphy, Ronan Guilfoyle, Billie Hart, Judy Niemack, among others. In 2001 Lynn was a laureate of the Axion-classics competition. She appeared as a semi-finalist on the the montreux vocal jazz competition 2005.

Since 2008 she teaches vocal jazz at the Lemmens Institute/LUCA school of Arts in Leuven, Belgium.