Performed by: Nadar, Arsis4, Peter Jacquemyn and Jan Pillaert

Theme of jazz & sounds 2010 is the tension between written and improvised music. The detailed scores of composer Daan Janssens are always elaborated with few performance freedom. Stefan Prins on the other hand frequently uses free improvisation, or free impro instrumental techniques. Nadar, Arisis4, Peter Jacquemyn and Jan Pillaert perform …Passages…, a cycle of four compositions by composer Daan Janssens (°1983), and Ventriloquium by Stefan Prins, a search for relations between free improvisation schooled musicians, and a written ensemble with live electronics.

PROGRAMME :
- Peter JACQUEMYN (double bass) en Jan PILLAERT (tuba)     improvisation
- Daan JANSSENS:        
Passages…(2005-2008)
    Passages… (2005/rev.2008) – for string quartet (First performance of the revised version)
    Tableau – double – (passages II) (2005/2006) – for violoncello solo
    D’un automne étendu (2007/2008) – for string quartet
    (…nuit cassée.) (2006/2007) – for viola solo and four instruments
- Stefan PRINS: Ventriloquium (2006) for e-guitar, percussion, violoncello, two improvising musicians and live electronics.

Nadar : Valerie Vereecke (klarinet) – Matthias Koole (e-gitaar) – Yves Goemaere (percussie) – Elisa Medinilla (piano) – Jan Pillaert (tuba & impro) – Marijn Thissen (altviool) – Pieter Matthynssens (cello) – Jacquemyn (contrabas & impro) – Stefan Prins (live-electronics) – Daan Janssens (dirigent)

Arsis4: Pieter Jansen en Liesbeth Baelus (viool) – Florian Peelman (altviool) – Romek Maniewski (cello)

ARSIS4 Arsis4 consists of four young string players who have for the last three years been intensively working together. They have studied at the conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels and received. Further coaching of top level musicians like Andreas Keller and Heime Müller. They attended master classes with the Artis Quartet, The Prazak and the Danel Quartet. From last season on, Arsis4 is studying with the Artemis Quartet at Brussels Queen Elisabeth Chapel. During the last three years they have been working under the name B!LINDMAN [strings]. From the 2009-2010 season onwards, they shall go their own way as Arsis4.

NADAR
The Nadar Ensemble was founded in 2006 by some young Flemish musicians, graduated from various conservatories, with a common passion for contemporary music. What the ensemble would like to share with the real ‘Nadar’ – pseudonym of the well-known photographer, balloonist, caricaturist, art critic and even spy Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910) – is his adventurous and multidisciplinary mind. Nadar’s main repertoire is the work of the youngest Flemish and international generation composers, as Simon Steen-Andersen (°1976), Martin Schüttler (°1974), Stefan Prins (°1979)…