During 2005-2017, Brice Catherin gave several hundreds of concerts and performances as a cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist in Europe, Japan, Russia, Iceland and Canada. He also composed about 80 works for soloists for large ensembles, ranging from ten minutes to ten hours duration. He premiered works he commissioned for solo cello or chamber ensembles from composers such as
Dror Feiler, Christian Rosset,
Evis Sammoutis,
Patricia Bosshard,
Baudoin de Jaer,
Abby Swidler,
Jacques Demierre,
Arash Yazdani and
Ludovic Thirvaudey. He worked with artists from various backgrounds including dancers (
Foofwa d’Imobilité,
Corina Pia,
Judith Desse), writers (
Karelle Ménine,
Cléa Chopard), actors (
Delphine Rosay), and after works of movie directors (David Bestue and
Marc Vives,
David OReilly (artist)) and illustrators (
Yuichi Yokoyama). As a composer, Brice Catherin wrote more than 80 instrumental works with or without electronic means. As an improviser, he is known for engineering the concept of "improvisation laboratories", which refers to performances of constrained improvisations. The constraints can be as different as "playing an instrument you don't know", "playing a building", "improvise music for a cartoon", "improvisation of characters", or "mixing baroque music and free improvisation". ==Selected works for cello with
curved bow==