Pianolab Festival 2011

Improvisaties, Composities, Worldjazz
SAT 3 DEC 2011 20.30, BIMHUIS, Amsterdam (NL)

Fred Van Hove · piano solo
Keiko Shichijo & Daan Vandewalle · piano duo
work for two pianos by Frederic Rzewski
FUGARA
Markus Stockhausen · trp/flh, Paul van Kemenade · altsax, Stevko Busch · piano, Markku Ounaskari · perc
On songs, Russian Chants, Miniatures
Henning Bolte · presentation

The concert in the BIMHUIS closes the year with a mini-festival that brings together the different aspects of Pianolab.

There is free improvisation by master Fred Van Hove – founder of free music in Europe and a kindred spirit of Misha Mengelberg; there is composed work for two pianos – masterfully performed by Daan Vandevalle and Keiko Shichijo; and there is an international quartet, which originates from the Busch/Van Kemenade duet, whose CD ‘CONTEMPLATION’ has received international 4 and 5 star reviews for its interpretations of Russian Orthodox chants.

German trumpet wizard Markus Stockhausen and Finnish ECM percussionist Markku Ounaskari accepted the invitation to expand this duo mainly because both musicians can be heard on several CDs with psalms, folk songs and sacred soul.

Keiko Shichijo © Remko Wieland

Biographies

2022-03-06T16:31:40+01:00

Daan Vandewalle

Piano

Daan Vandewalle enjoys an international reputation as a specialist for New Music, with a focus on American piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He plays the complete piano works of Charles Ives, Messiaen, the Ligeti piano concerto, the Lutoslawski piano concerto, and works by Clarence Barlowe, John Cage, Sorabji, among others.
2022-03-07T12:42:24+01:00

Fred Van Hove

Piano

After recordings with the Brötzmann Oktett (Machine Gun, 1968) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, 1969) 1970 saw the birth of what is probably Europe's best-known trio, the Trio Brötzmann/van Hove/Bennink, with Han Bennink. His Musica Libera groups since 1980 have included Paul Rutherford, Radu Malfatti, Günter Sommer, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, among others.
2022-03-06T19:19:18+01:00

Markku Ounaskari

Drums, Percussion

With Paul van Kemenade, Markus Stockhausen and Stevko Busch he formed 'FUGARA'. In 2020 he will tour again with Paul and Stevko, this time with Moroccan singer, guimbre and oud player Majid Bekkas.
2022-03-06T15:16:43+01:00

Markus Stockhausen

Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

Markus Stockhausen is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. He is equally at home in jazz as in contemporary and classical music. For about 25 years he worked closely with his father, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed many beautiful works for him.
2023-09-11T17:05:18+02:00

Stefan (Stevko) Busch

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.

More of Pianolab

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Peter Jacquemyn

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.
2021-07-19T13:02:31+02:00

Italy, Berlin, Amsterdam

SUN 21 MAY 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)

Angelo Conto · piano, Alessandra Patrucco · voice, John Dikeman · tenor sax; Stevko Busch · piano, Wilbert de Joode · bass, Christian Lillinger · drums
2021-07-18T16:34:57+02:00

Sylvie Courvoisier – solo

SUN 29 JAN 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)

Courvoisier, one of the core artists of the New York Downtown circle around John Zorn, is one of the most distinctive and interesting younger pianists . She resolutely goes beyond the established styles and genres and operates along the boundaries of refined, compositional specifications, improvisational design and the balancing and refining process within an ensemble.
2021-07-18T16:50:24+02:00

Keiko Shichijo plays Mozart on Fortepiano

SUN 24 JUN 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)

She has developed her skills on the fortepiano - her first instrument - to the highest level of mastery. The current concert she plays on her own instrument, which was brought from Japan to Amsterdam in 2011, where she lives and works.
2021-07-19T13:11:12+02:00

Tetzepi electrumpet; Provan/Lampe Duo

FRI 26 MAR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)

Charly Zastrau, Walter Lampe - piano, Felicity Provan - trumpet, voice, Bastiaan Woltjer - trombone, shell, Esmée Olthuis - alto and soprano saxophone, blockophone; Hans Leeuw - electrumpet