Clémence Manachère is a jazz flute player & Soprano saxophone player & composer from the seaside mountains of South West of France.

Starting at age 10 Clémence learned to play classical piano for 8 years at the Pau Conservatory of Music.

At 14 she took part in the festival „les Enfants du Jazz“ and heard Elvin Jones live in Barcelonnette, her grandmother’s village in the „Alpes de haute Provence“ – 

At 16 she bought her first flute and began to learn the instrument as an autodidact. 

From 18 to 24 she studied architecture in France and Mexico City.

From Paris she traveled to Brazil and since then dedicated herself fully to music. 

Back in Europe she studied jazz flute at the music school Berlin-Neukölln and since October 2017 she has added the soprano saxophone studying at Hamburg’s Hochschule.

She also took rhythm and drums classes with Mark Nauseef for two years. Mark’s rhythmic visions are a big impulse for her composing and improvising.

In order to bring her compositions to life, she launched in 2018 her project „Clémence Manachère Unterwasser“. 

She has already recorded three albums with „Unterwasser“ released in 2020, 2022, and to be released in April 2024 under the label JazzHausMusik.

Clémence has received the „Mixed Generations“ grant from the Feldtmann Foundation and the Jazz Federation Hamburg for a tour with „Unterwasser“ and the Norwegian trombone player Helge Sunde in April and November 2022. 

IN JANUARY 2024 CLÉMENCE WON THE WERNER BURKHARDT MUSIKRPEIS.