Artistic director Minh-Tâm Nguyen will leave his position in 2026
©Bartosch Salmanski
After 9 wonderful years of developing projects for Les Percussions de Strasbourg, our dear artistic director Minh-Tâm Nguyen will be leaving his post in the summer of 2026, to pursue new adventures. We’re fortunate to be able to continue working alongside him for some time yet, but we’re already looking for his successor! The announcement is available below, and applications must be received by midnight on July 6.
STRASBOURG : PERCUSTRA CONCERT
PERCUSTRA IN SONGS !
Thursday 5th June 2025, 7pm
Place André Maurois, Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg (FR)
Free access
This year, the Percustra workshops will be held outside! The concert will take place on the forecourt of the Théâtre de Hautepierre and will be open to everyone!
On the programme 👉 12 songs from different eras and countries, all united by their festive spirit and dancing energy!
With the choirs from middle school Erasme and Truffaut under the name ‘HTP Chante’, and the LGBTQ+ choir from Alsace ‘Pelicanto’.
Design : © Adrien Moerlen, Le Futur
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ON TOUR
RUPTUR
Samuel Sighicelli and Benjamin De La Fuente
Tuesday 27th May
CRR Concert Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (TR)
Caravaggio & Les Percussions de Strasbourg
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RuptuR uses a large-scale musical form to create a machine with a rock accent, made up of motifs and patterns that are constantly repeated and renewed, exploring their own colours, spaces and temporalities. The aim is to achieve both the hypnotic effect of repetition and an uplifting movement and emotional tension that builds to a breaking point.
This machine, launched at full speed, develops over more than an hour until it comes to an abrupt stop, as if broken by its own exhaustion, suddenly plunging us into a silent suspension inhabited by a very deep drone, creating an unexpected vertigo. What happens in the listener’s body and mind at the moment of rupture? Is the stopping of the machine a liberation, a frustration, or both?
ON TOUR
INVARIANTS
BACH, TAKEMITSU, LEVINAS
Monday 9th June
Košice Spring Music Festival, Slovakia (SK)
Programme:
Sonate en Trio pour orgue – Jean-Sebastian BACH
Les Invariants – Michaël LEVINAS (2021)
Sonate en Trio pour orgue – Jean-Sebastian BACH
Rain Tree – Tōru TAKEMITSU (1981)
Sonate en Trio pour orgue – Jean-Sebastian BACH
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In the frame of the Spring festival organised by the Philharmony of Košice, les Percussions de Strasbourg present Invariants, a programme for a trio of musicians
playing percussion keyboards. Interspersed between three Trio Sonatas for Organ by Johann-Sebastian BACH, Rain Tree (1981) by Tōru TAKEMITSU and Les
Invariants (2021) by Michaël LEVINAS take the German composer’s works back and forth in time. Several centuries after their composition, these sonatas continue to adapt to their time without losing their essence, and the presence of works from our own time reminds us that Johann Sebastian Bach remains very much alive.
RESIDENCY
Residency in Maputo – Mozambique
After an initial visit to Mozambique last year and a residency with Matchume Zango in Strasbourg in December, we are returning to Maputo for a 15-day artistic exchange with 3 musicians from the Percussions de Strasbourg, choreographer Noémie Ettlin, musician Matchume Zango and 2 other Mozambican musicians and dancers.
In partnership with the Milano Musica festival, Agape, the Centre Franco Mozambicain and the Institut Français.
Percussionist and composer Matchume Zango specialises in the Timbila. Classified by UNESCO as part of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage, this instrument is
part of the musical and dance tradition of the Chopi culture. Now threatened with extinction for lack of transmission of the know-how involved in making it, Matchume Zango is preserving this technical and artistic know-how by sharing it with us, in particular for a forthcoming collaboration currently under construction.
Stay tuned!
AGENDA
May 27th, 2025 – RuptuR
Benjamin de la Fuente et Samuel Sighicelli
CRR Concert Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (TR)
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June 5th, 2025 – Percustra Karaoké
avec HTP Chante & Pelicanto
Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg (FR)
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June 9th, 2025 – Invariants
Bach, Takemitsu, Levinas
Košice Spring Music Festival, Slovakia (SK)
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June 27th 2025 – Persephassa
Iannis Xenakis
Bozar, Brussels (BE)
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July 5th, 2025 – Naturstudium III
Luis Tabuenca
Barcelona History Museum (ES)
And more dates to be announced very soon!
Next concert in Hautepierre :
December 4th, 2025 – MINIMAL
Bärtsch, Reich, Pépin, Song, Washington
Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg (FR)