Pléiades – Iannis Xenakis As well as : TRIO SONATA N°3 in D minor BWV 527 for Organ – J. S. BACHRAIN TREE – Torū TAKEMITSU Monday, April 3rd 2023, 8:30 PM – Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova (IT)Information and booking Pléiades is one of the most beautiful pieces written by Iannis Xenakis. The richness of […]
The Percussions de Strasbourg are on all fronts and combine dissemination of their repertoire with new creations! On 3 March, we will be playing on three different stages: Myotis V by Anthony Laguerre in Poitiers, 100 cymbals by Ryoji Ikeda in Bilbao, and a new Legacy programme in Mannheim! The latter programme is the initiative […]
The Percussions de Strasbourg wish you a wonderful year 2023 and send you their best wishes. For us, the year is off to a great start with some very beautiful musical moments in prospect. The first event of the year will be in Dresden with MUSIC IN THE BELLY, a re-reading of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Music […]
The Percussions of Strasbourg are looking for an intern in production and administration! In order to strengthen our team, we are looking for a production and administration intern from January/March to July 2022. He/she will support our team in the organisation of the ensemble’s concerts and in its administration. The announcement is available here. 🖋Interviews […]
Pléiades, I. Xenakis – Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains – Thursday 24th November 2022 Pléiades is one of the most beautiful pieces written by Iannis Xenakis. The richness of the timbres, the freedom and coherence of the composition make this work a unique rhythmic adventure. The very essence of this piece lies in the fact that […]
La Fête Sauvage – L. Antunes – La Comète, Chalons-en-Champagne, FR – 3 October 2022 La Fête Sauvage required more than two years of filming in the four corners of the world, in Africa, Asia and South America, for director Frédéric Rossif to create this ode to nature and the animals that inhabit it.Captured in their daily […]
Music in the Belly, K. H. Stockhausen / S. Steen-Andersen – 28 september 2022 – Th. de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, FR – World premiere Simon Steen-Andersen pays tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen by staging his dream of music in the belly… In 1975, Karlheinz Stockhausen composed an enigmatic work for the Percussions de Strasbourg. The score contained […]
Timelessness, T. De Mey – Lausanne Opera, Switzerland – 18 june 2022 After the performance given at the Hautepierre theatre in Strasbourg on 10 November, which many of you attended, and concerts in France in December, Thierry De Mey’s Timelessness will be presented at the Opéra de Lausanne on 18 June, as part of the […]
This year, our ensemble the Percussions de Strasbourg celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. It was under the impetus of Pierre Boulez that the idea was born, a little absurd for the time, of forming a music group made up solely of percussion. In 1962, the six founding members came up with this innovative project that would […]
Poésie augmentée – C-E. Cella / M. Lupone – Festival Milano Musica – Milano, Italia With an instrumentarium of unique timbres, the Percussions de Strasbourg have always worked to expand their sound palette and are delighted with their new collaboration with two wonderful Italian composers and researchers, specialists in augmented instruments. After Inside-Out (2017) and Kore […]
Table Music – Thierry De Mey – Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice From April to June, Palazzo Grassi in Venice presents Dancing Studies, a cycle of original performances by major international choreographers invited around the exhibition “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies”.Among four performances to be performed in the different spaces of the Pinault Collection in Venice and […]
Table Music – Thierry De Mey – Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice From April to June, Palazzo Grassi in Venice presents Dancing Studies, a cycle of original performances by major international choreographers invited around the exhibition “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies”.Among four performances to be performed in the different spaces of the Pinault Collection in Venice and […]