Violin Mandolin Composition
 

After studying with Didier Lockwood at the CMDL and then winning first prize at the Jazz and Improvised Music Department of the CNSMDP in 2007, Clément Janinet won the springboard at the Defense Festival within the group Radiation 10. Passionate about African and South American music , he multiplies the meetings and travels, and performs on his violin a work around these musics. He draws inspiration from it to develop his own playing techniques which he incorporates into jazz and improvised music.

He has played alongside Antoine Hervé, Didier Lockwood, Ricardo Del Fra, Sylvain Rifflet, Gilles Coronado, Han Bennink, Ramon Lopez, Mark Turner, Magic Malik, Etienne Mbappe for jazz and Mauro Palmas, Richard Bona, among others. Orchestra do Fuba, Adama Drame, Cheik Tidiane seik, Akale Wube for world music. Currently Clément Janinet has been performing with the formations of Étienne Mbappé and the prophets, Simon Winse (Burkina Faso) since 2007. Since 2012, he has part of the company "La vie Brève) with which he participated in the collective creation of "Crocodile Trompeur/Didon et Enée" (Molière for best musical theater show in 2014) and "Orfeo, I died in Arcadia" in 2017-2018.

In 2017, he created the quartet OURS (Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies) with whom he recorded his first album as a leader (ffff Télérama, Révélation Jazz Magazine). He has also been performing since 2018 with Space Galvachers and le Banquet. In 2019, the second album of his quartet OURS (ffff Télérama, Choc Jazzmagazine, Elu Citizen jazz) was released. In 2019, he also created the trio La Litanie des Cimes, whose first album was released in March 2021 Clément janinet has given more than 700 concerts in more than 35 countries.