Pianolab Festival 2010

Vier sets met compositions and improvisations
WED 24 FEB 2010 20.30, BIMHUIS, AMSTERDAM (NL)

Misha Mengelberg · solo piano
Gunda Gottschalk · violin, Stevko Busch · piano, Cor Fuhler · electronica, Peter Jacquemyn · bass, Tatsuya Nakatani · percussion
Achim Kaufmann · piano, Frank Gratkowski · clarinet, Wilbert de Joode · bass
Dante Boon, Keiko Shichijo · work by Morton Feldman for one and twoo pianos

This concert at the BIMHUIS responds in one evening to various aspects that are covered throughout the series.

Misha Mengelberg as one of the founders of various movements in contemporary music and art (read: improvisation, Fluxus, Steim) shares the stage with the second and third generation of improvisers – in his ‘home venue’, as it were. It features established musicians and masters of international reputation, each representing a distinct cosmos within music.

Misha Mengelberg

Born on June 5, 1935 in Kiev, Misha has lived in the Netherlands since the age of 3. He studied with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and took his final exams in music theory in 1964.

From 1960 onwards he engaged in jazz and improvised music as a pianist/composer. In 1967 he is co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) and in 1968 of the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM). In 1972, he becomes president of the Union of Improvising Musicians (BIM). With the ICP orchestra, but also in duo-occupation with Han Bennink (percussion), he has built an international reputation.

Biographies

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Dante Boon

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Piano, Composer

'Wandelweiser' composer, co-programmer of Pianolab Amsterdam at the Goethe-Institut. Dante has premiered more than 50 works, many of them written especially for him. He has performed at Constellation Chicago, Spectrum, Studio Z, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Gaudeamus Music Week, among others...
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Achim Kaufmann

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Piano, Composer

"For many years Achim Kaufmann has been one of the most inspiring and exciting personalities of the European jazz and impro scene. His music demonstrates great harmonic subtlety and structural depth. As a brilliant pianist and composer, through his reflection of tradition, he has developed a nuanced, contemporary sound language that encompasses poetry, energy and abstraction in equal measure." Julia Neupert, SWR radio
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Stefan (Stevko) Busch

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Piano

Stefan is the artistic director of Gallery of Tones. He is known as a particularly good accompanist, which can be heard in his duo with the saxophonist Paul van Kemenade. For several years now, Stefan has been immersing himself in composing semi-classical piano pieces, and has developed a teaching method with which all styles and levels can be trained.
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Cor Fuhler By Gianni Piesco

Cor Fuhler

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Prepared piano, electronica

He collects and plays many electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments, sometimes self-made, such as the Keyolin (a combination of violin and keyboard). In 1995 he formed the trio Fuhler-Bennink-De Joode, based on the techniques of instant composing and instant arranging.
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Wilbert de Joode contrabas

Wilbert de Joode

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Double bass

Wilbert de Joode (1955) is a true researcher of bass pizzicato and string techniques. He has been playing double bass since 1982 and joined groups that improvised in a jazz setting. He developed into one of the most active bass players on the European improvised music circuit.
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PeterJacquemyn bass

Peter Jacquemyn

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Bass, Performance

His concerts and performances are spectacular. With unbridled energy he wrestles with his double bass. A fight in which all means are permitted: Bows (1,2 or 3), dented beverage cans, plastic bags, crumpled paper, mufflers, brass, re-tensioned strings, ... This places Peter among Belgium's most interesting improvisation musicians with a justifiable international reputation.
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Gunda Gottschalk

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Violin, Viola

Gunda Gottschalk from Wuppertal, after all the birthplace of German improvised music, is not only a virtuoso and internationally performing violinist, but also an organizer of concerts and artist residencies in the famous 'Ort', the former workplace of the late Peter Kowald, one of the founders of improvised music in the 60s and 70s. 

More of Pianolab

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Burton Greene – Solo

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SUN 11 NOV 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)

Burton Greene played several concerts at the Pianolab. He is one of the first musicians to incorporate klezmer influences into free improvised music and jazz.
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Pianolab Festival 2010

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Four sets in the spirit of the series at the Goethe Institute.

Misha Mengelberg - solo · Dante Boon & Keiko Shichijo - duo · Gunda Gottschalk · Stevko Busch · Cor Fuhler · Peter Jacquemyn · Tatsuya Nakatani · Achim Kaufmann · Frank Gratkowski · Wilbert de Joode
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Pianolab 2007-2009

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Concert Series at the Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)

The musician of the first concerts in our series in a row. With among others Misha Mengelberg, Dante Boon, Rozalie Hirs, Ned McGowan, Arnold Dooyeweerd...