Release Date: 27 November 2020
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801016900
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
Over the centuries, the piano has become the ultimate keyboard instrument. Apart from playing common repertoire, pianists used to improvise, create and perform their own pieces. This tradition has mostly disappeared in the 20th century.
This CD recording is part of an academic research at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, with the aim of reviving the tradition of combining creation and performance but with contemporary aesthetics.
Jeroen Malaise (b.1971, Antwerp, Belgium) is a pianist-composer and teacher at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. He mainly focuses on contemporary music experience and has a fascination for various traditions and different forms
of improvisation. His interests span a wide spectrum of music genres, from classical to jazz and from traditional to popular music.
Jeroen played various keyboard instruments from an early age including clavichord, harpsichord and piano and had many different tutors; for baroque and classical improvisation he took lessons with Ewald Demeyere, jazz piano lessons with Christoph Erbstosser.
Currently, Jeroen teaches improvisation and practical
harmony to the students of the piano department at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp.
Karel Stulens (b.1997) is a Ghent-based composer of new arts and music. His works range from orchestral and chamber works, mainly with performative and multi-media components, to interactive videos and he makes a guest performance on this recording.
¢022 All compositions by Jeroen Malaise, except 6 Digital Snippets by Karel Stulens. 6 Digital Snippets
commissioned by Jeroen Malaise as a sequel to, and with audio samples of the 6 Etudes.
Tracklisting
Yarno Missiaen
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Marco Sanna (piano)
Werner Van Mechelen, Sylvie Decramer
Keigo Mukawa
Gauguin Ensemble
Michel Strauss, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden
Elena Marangou, Yorgos Ziavras
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
