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 […]
La Muraille with the Percussions de Treffort – Théâtre de Bourg en Bresse To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Les Percussions de Treffort and Résonance contemporaine, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Les Percussions de Treffort (an ensemble that brings together singular musicians, some disabled, others not) are pooling their thirst for being in music through […]
Timelessness on tour! After the performance given at the Hautepierre theatre in Strasbourg on 10 November, which many of you attended, Thierry De Mey’s Timelessness will be presented in Béthune on 12 December and then in Tarbes on 15 December 2021. With this transdisciplinary show for eight percussionists, Thierry De Mey plays as much on […]
Timelessness at the Hautepierre theater ! Created in 2019 at the Musica festival, cancelled twice in March and November 2020 due to the pandemic, Timelessness, returns to the Hautepierre theatre!With this transdisciplinary show for eight percussionists, Thierry De Mey, a composer in perpetual research and unbridled inventiveness, plays as much on gesture as on sound. […]