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Benoit Moerlen was born on 6 February 1956 in Colmar in Alsace. He follows his training as a percussionist at the Conservatoire National de Region de Strasbourg with Jean Batigne where he specializes in keyboards.
Parallel to his activity in the Jazz Rock as a member of Gongzilla, Gong and Mike Olfield, with whom he toured worldwide and made numerous recordings, he worked on micro-tonal music and the development of the use of the Mallet Kat with Jon Catler and occurs in a duo with vibraphonist Stefan Traub.
Composer of stage music, it shows the diversity of its musical sensibilities in working with the authors of the music of today as Georges Aperghis, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Luc Ferrari, Guy Reibel, Jean-Marie Senia, Bernard Wisson, Pablo Cueco ..., while teaching percussion at the Center for Eveil Musical de Saint Die des Vosges.
