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. […]
Mexican Tour for Ghostland! From 20 to 30 October, the Percussions de Strasbourg will be in Mexico to present Ghostland.Immersive and spellbinding, Pierre Jodlowski’s latest creation plunges us into an area of indefinite boundaries. Composed for electronics and four percussionists from the famous Percussions de Strasbourg, the score also includes the play of lights and […]
Invariants – Bach, Takemitsu, Levinas Saturday 11 September, 8.30 pm Chateau du HohlandsbourgDue to weather conditions and rain, the originally planned programme, Xenakis’ Persephassa, cannot be performed.This programme is replaced by Invariants, a programme for trio of musicians playing percussion keyboards. Interspersed between three Trio Sonatas for Organ by Johann-Sebastian BACH, Rain Tree (1981) by […]
Xenakis in the spotlight : The year 2022 will mark the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis, the great composer who dedicated two pieces to les Percussions de Strasbourg, Persephassa and Pleiades.On this occasion, we will be playing these great classics of contemporary percussion throughout the 21-22 season, starting this summer:Pléiades will be performed […]
100 Cymbals in Hannover It’s back to work! We will be in Hanover on 3 and 4 June for the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen to perform 100 Cymbals, by Ryoji Ikeda, a real dive into the abyss of vibration for a unique listening experience, an infinite crescendo, leading from an almost imperceptible murmur to the brilliance of […]
John Cage + Ryoji Ikeda Following the French premiere of his piece 100 Cymbals at the Musica festival last September, we welcomed Ryoji Ikeda in residence in Strasbourg for the adaptation of But what about the noise of crumpling paper… a conceptual piece that John Cage composed for our ensemble in 1985. Lasting 15 minutes, this rereading of Cage’s […]