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.