INVARIANT – XENAKIS, BACH, TAKEMITSU, LEVINAS 📅 Saturday 2nd September – 9pm📍 Old Elefsina Olive Oil Factory, Greece Les Percussions de Strasbourg present a unique programme at Eleusis, European Capital of Culture 2023, as part of the Aeschylia festival. Invariants is a programme for a trio of musicians playing percussion keyboards. Interspersed between two Trio Sonatas […]
PERCUSTRA CONCERT – SOMBRE JOURNÉE, HUGUES DUFOURT Thursday, June 8th 2023, 6:00PM and 8:00PM – Théâtre de HautepierreMore information Pupils from the schools Jacqueline and Brigitte, and the Collèges Erasme and Truffaut, as well as residents, families and workers from the Hautepierre district, took part in the “Percustra” collective musical creation workshops, organised and led […]
Myotis V – Anthony Laguerre Wednesday, May 3rd 2023, 8:00 PM – Festival Musiques Démesurées, Maison de la Culture de Clermont-FerrandInformation and booking Since 2017, Anthony Laguerre has started a research around amplified drums with his solo Myotis.Looking for the opposite of his primary energy, he found how to bring inaudible sounds into play by amplifying […]
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 […]