11 July 2010
Theatre Stage
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20:00
Pierre Anckaert & Guests
(Belgium/Switzerland)
Pierre Anckaert (piano and composition), Hendrik Vanattenhoven (double bass and composition), Stefan Bracaval (flute, bass flute and composition), Guy Nikkels (guitar), Mimi Verderame (drums)
Guests: Bert Joris, Michael Zisman and members of the Odysseia Ensemble.
Guests: Bert Joris, Michael Zisman and members of the Odysseia Ensemble.
The piano player Pierre Anckaert is a rising star in the comptemporay Belgian jazz scene. After being awarded first prize at the 2007 Jazz Hoeilaart International Contest and receiving the SABAM Artistic Promotion Prize 2007 for best interpretation of the compulsory piece "Tritone Song" by Peter Hertmans, he records his first trio album "Candide". Today, Pierre Anckaert decides to engage the dialogue between jazz and classical music with a classical chamber orchestra. “Strings Attached” is an apparent contradiction, a confrontation between old, older and new, a clash between two worlds, that nevertheless produces an irresistible melting pot of sounds and rhythms in which Latin-American influences and a classical repertoire are blended into an organic whole, challenging the audience to look at the world of jazz from a classical perspective as well as the other way round.
With “Strings Attached” Pierre Anckaert takes the initiative to cross boundaries, to color outside the lines without falling off the page. Something that has become a rare phenomenon in the Belgian jazz and music scene, all the more when it attains the high level of quality that both groups as separate entities have already proved they can produce, and now also as an ensemble.
www.pierreanckaert.com
The chamber music ensemble Odysseia, spin-off of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, has consciously chosen for an orginal line-up and an explicit identity. Their program is a mixture of contemporary music and Twentieth century repertoire. Cooperation with other music styles is one of their top priorities. The ensemble, formed by 15 young musicians, will engage the dialogue with the Pierre Anckaert Quintet at Brosella in an smaller line-up.
www.myspace.com/odysseiaensemble
Bert Joris, well-known actor in the Belgian jazz scene, is, besides a magnificent trumpet player, also a brilliant composer and big band leader. From 1978 till 1987 Bert Joris was hired by the “BRT Radio Jazz Orchestra”, conducted by Etienne Verschueren, and during this period he became one of the main soloists and composers for this band. In 1986 he has been touring all over Europe with the renowned drummer and big band leader Mel Lewis and ever since his live performances all over the world are countless. He’s brother in arms with Philip Catherine for many years now and is often invited to perform with European bands, including the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the Al Porcino Big Band, the Metropole Orchestra and in particular the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. “Dangerous Liaison”, one of his first important creations in 2002, was completed a couple years later with other compositions and was released under the same name in 2006. At the time it was considered one of the best big band albums ever by the American magazine “All About Jazz".
www.bertjoris.be
Michael Zisman, born in 1982, studied bandoneon and composition in Buenos Aires with Nestor Marconi and Juan C. Cirigliano (former pianist of Astor Piazzolla). He made his first public appearance at age 11 together with tango legends Leopoldo Federico and Atilio Stampone, as a surprise guest at their concert in Geneva in 1993. Together with his father Michael Zisman, he has realized a vast number of records aswell as toured the world in various formations. He studied also arrangements, composition and improvisation in Switzerland with a.o. Bert Joris, Andy Scherrer, Frank Sikora and Klaus Wagenleiter. Zisman’s music sails between tango and jazz. He performs as a soloist with different symphonic orchestra’s (a.o. Philharmonic Orchestra, M.I.T. Symphony Boston, Brussels Jazz Orchestra), but also with various chamber orchestra’s. In 2007 Michael Zisman won the 1st prize in the bandoneon category of the International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal, Germany.
www.michaelzisman.com
With “Strings Attached” Pierre Anckaert takes the initiative to cross boundaries, to color outside the lines without falling off the page. Something that has become a rare phenomenon in the Belgian jazz and music scene, all the more when it attains the high level of quality that both groups as separate entities have already proved they can produce, and now also as an ensemble.
www.pierreanckaert.com
The chamber music ensemble Odysseia, spin-off of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, has consciously chosen for an orginal line-up and an explicit identity. Their program is a mixture of contemporary music and Twentieth century repertoire. Cooperation with other music styles is one of their top priorities. The ensemble, formed by 15 young musicians, will engage the dialogue with the Pierre Anckaert Quintet at Brosella in an smaller line-up.
www.myspace.com/odysseiaensemble
Bert Joris, well-known actor in the Belgian jazz scene, is, besides a magnificent trumpet player, also a brilliant composer and big band leader. From 1978 till 1987 Bert Joris was hired by the “BRT Radio Jazz Orchestra”, conducted by Etienne Verschueren, and during this period he became one of the main soloists and composers for this band. In 1986 he has been touring all over Europe with the renowned drummer and big band leader Mel Lewis and ever since his live performances all over the world are countless. He’s brother in arms with Philip Catherine for many years now and is often invited to perform with European bands, including the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the Al Porcino Big Band, the Metropole Orchestra and in particular the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. “Dangerous Liaison”, one of his first important creations in 2002, was completed a couple years later with other compositions and was released under the same name in 2006. At the time it was considered one of the best big band albums ever by the American magazine “All About Jazz".
www.bertjoris.be
Michael Zisman, born in 1982, studied bandoneon and composition in Buenos Aires with Nestor Marconi and Juan C. Cirigliano (former pianist of Astor Piazzolla). He made his first public appearance at age 11 together with tango legends Leopoldo Federico and Atilio Stampone, as a surprise guest at their concert in Geneva in 1993. Together with his father Michael Zisman, he has realized a vast number of records aswell as toured the world in various formations. He studied also arrangements, composition and improvisation in Switzerland with a.o. Bert Joris, Andy Scherrer, Frank Sikora and Klaus Wagenleiter. Zisman’s music sails between tango and jazz. He performs as a soloist with different symphonic orchestra’s (a.o. Philharmonic Orchestra, M.I.T. Symphony Boston, Brussels Jazz Orchestra), but also with various chamber orchestra’s. In 2007 Michael Zisman won the 1st prize in the bandoneon category of the International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal, Germany.
www.michaelzisman.com
Press Quotes:
De Standaard: “... the Pierre Anckaert Trio stands for jazz with Cuban influences, lively patterns and catchy rhythms...”
Belgian Music Online: “...Pierre Anckaert plays contemporary jazz stirred with an abundance of classical and Latin blends. Listeners can expect an intricately layered, modern kind of jazz, offering you the warmth of a southern sun and varying between ingenious themes and virtuoso solos...”
Frédéric Devreese: "I was fascinated by Pierre Anckaert's new CD! A particularly happy mix of jazz and classical music, subtle harmonizations and surprising modulations, inventive and virtuoso improvisations, a variety of atmospheres and terrific grooves, all perfectly captured on this recording. In a nutshell, a discovery!"
Knack: “Why is the world still not aware of Bert Joris? Because he’s Belgian and modest. But mostly: because he’s not interested. On the other hand, the best Belgian trumpet player is part of the best Big Band in the world on the Blue Note Records Festival...”
20 minutos, zaragoza: "Michael Zisman is one of the youngest and most accalaimed bandoneon players in europe..."
Belgian Music Online: “...Pierre Anckaert plays contemporary jazz stirred with an abundance of classical and Latin blends. Listeners can expect an intricately layered, modern kind of jazz, offering you the warmth of a southern sun and varying between ingenious themes and virtuoso solos...”
Frédéric Devreese: "I was fascinated by Pierre Anckaert's new CD! A particularly happy mix of jazz and classical music, subtle harmonizations and surprising modulations, inventive and virtuoso improvisations, a variety of atmospheres and terrific grooves, all perfectly captured on this recording. In a nutshell, a discovery!"
Knack: “Why is the world still not aware of Bert Joris? Because he’s Belgian and modest. But mostly: because he’s not interested. On the other hand, the best Belgian trumpet player is part of the best Big Band in the world on the Blue Note Records Festival...”
20 minutos, zaragoza: "Michael Zisman is one of the youngest and most accalaimed bandoneon players in europe..."
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