Samuel Lercher Trio

Samuel Lercher Trio

Samuel Lercher is a French pianist and composer living in Portugal who, from an early age, showed an interest in both classical and jazz repertoire, improvisation and composition. This affinity with both classical music and jazz has revealed itself, over the years, as a unique identity mark in Samuel Lercher's composition and performance.

He began his musical studies in Paris, at the Université Paris VIII and the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He continued them in Lisbon, at the Universidade Nova and the Escola Superior de Música, where he graduated in Musical Sciences, Pedagogy and Piano.

In 2014, he founded the Samuel Lercher Trio, with musicians André Rosinha and Marcelo Araújo, and recorded the original album Épilogue (Sintoma, 2015). The album was very well received by critics, having been featured on Antena 1, Antena 2, RTP2, TSF, Jornal Público and Jazz.pt.

He launched a new original project in 2015, the Fauksa Quartet, bringing together French and Portuguese musicians (Hamza Touré, Freddy Blondeau and Rui Pereira), with whom he recorded the album Or, in 2022, released in Paris, at the Festivitry festival. 

In 2020, Samuel Lercher was invited to participate, as pianist and co-musical director, in the project “Salvador Sobral canta Brel”, a project presented in a series of sold-out concerts: Grande Auditório do CCB, Sala Suggia da Casa da Música, Teatro Aveirense, Teatro Maria Matos, Festa da Francofonia, Convento de São Francisco and also at the Théatre de Montbéliard, in France.

He released his second trio album, Ballade, in April 2022, at the Hot Clube de Portugal, with the renowned musicians André Rosinha and Bruno Pedroso. The album received four stars in a review by Jazz.pt.

In May 2024, the third album by the Samuel Lercher Trio, Fractal, will be released by Sintoma Records, with the support of Antena 2 and the Cultural Fund of the Portuguese Society of Authors, which maintains the profile of excellence in the rhythm section with André Rosinha on double bass and Bruno Pedroso on drums. This is an autobiographical album, in which Samuel Lercher musically portrays important elements of his life, conveying, over eight tracks, his essence as a man and musician.

With it, the trio proposes to continue with a regular schedule of concerts that extol cultural exchange, showing that culture has no borders.