Tonight 2 hours with Morton Feldman's "For John Cage" played live by Stéphane Ginsburgh (piano) and Igor Semenoff (violon) during there performance at the Brussels Potemkine for the festival Les Nuits du Beau Tas on Thursday the 14 May.
Photo Stéphane Ginsburgh by Colette Vaneycke
Before and after the concert there will be an interview with Stéphane Ginsburgh.
If you like Morton Feldman's music and you are in the area of Brussels don't miss the following 2 concerts :
20/5 LES NUITS DU BEAU TAS au POTEMKINE:: "Quatuor n° 1" de MORTON FELDMAN interprété par le Quatuor MP
More informtion of the festival can be found here : http://www.nuitsbeautas.com/
More informtion about Igor Semenoff look below.
Stéphane Ginsburgh (born 27 November 1969) is a Belgian pianist of Austrian origin.
http://www.ginsburgh.net/en/welcome.html
Biography
Ginsburgh was born in Brussels. After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons and Liège in piano and chamber music, Ginsburgh studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly Margulis and particularlyClaude Helffer in Paris for contemporary music and Jerome Lowenthal in New York.
He appears regularly in recitals and chamber music in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the USA. He performs Contemporary music as well as the Classical and Romantic repertoires that he often associates in his programs. He collaborates regularly with the Ictus Ensemble. He performed and premiered pieces by Newton Armstrong, Vykintas Baltakas, Guy Barash, Philippe Boesmans, Renaud De Putter, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Fabian Fiorini, Panayiotis Kokoras, Pierre Kolp, György Kurtág, Philipp Maintz, Benoît Mernier,Stefan Prins, André Ristic, Frederic Rzewski, François Sarhan, Sabrina Schroeder, Matthew Shlomowitz andJuan Carlos Tolosa.
He performed at important festivals such as Agora at IRCAM (Paris), Ars Musica (Brussels), Festival de Wallonie, Festival van Vlaanderen, Tzlil Meudcan Festival (Tel-Aviv), Festival Transit (Leuven), Milano Musica, Festival Next Wave (New York), Festival de Marseille, Festival Courtisane (Gent), Artefact Festival (Leuven), Festival Midis-Minimes (Brussels), Festival Loop (Brussels), Biennale Charleroi-Danse, Gentsche Feesten, Moscow Autumn Contemporary Music Festival, Les Nuits Botanique (Brussels), Quincena Musical (San Sebastián), Imatronic/Piano+ ZKM.
He premiered many new pieces and has been awarded the Belgian composers' union for his implication in performing Belgian contemporary music. He regularly plays with the Ictus Ensemble under George-Elie Octors. From 1990 on, member of the Bureau des Pianistes and since 1991, he participates actively to the Contemporary Music Spring Festival Ars Musica in Brussels. In 1998, Ginsburgh co-founded Le Bureau des Arts] now Sonar, an active group of artists dedicated to different types of artistic expression and creation including music, dance and literature. He was artistic director of the Centre Henri Pousseur (fr) dedicated to electronic music and live electronics from 2010 until 2013.
Among many CD releases, Marcel Duchamp's Erratum Musical and Morton Feldman Last Pieces received praising reviews by New York critics. He recorded three CDs with music by Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Morton Feldman. His latest CD for Sub Rosa features For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman. Upcoming projects include a five CDs box for Sub Rosa with Feldman's complete piano music. He also recorded monographies of young composers, the German David Helbich (2003), the Argentine Juan Carlos Tolosa (2004) and the Canadian André Ristic (2005).
Selected recordings
- Pieces For More Than Two Hands, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 1991
- Chorée, Renaud De Putter, Sub Rosa, 1998
- Is, Renaud De Putter, Sub Rosa, 1999
- Melencholia si..., Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2001
- Erratum Musical, Marcel Duchamp, Sub Rosa, 2001
- Last Pieces, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 2001
- For Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 2006
- Vexations, Erik Satie, Sub Rosa, 2008
- Back to, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2013
- Beth/Veth, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2014
- Complete music for piano, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 2015
- Complete piano sonatas, Sergei Prokofiev, Cypres records, 2015
- Quartet for piano, David Toub, World Edition, 2016
Other activities
Ginsburgh teaches piano, philosophy and sociology at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and has taught for several years chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and the music school of Mons. He is assistant for the piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels since 2012.
He studied philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles and also wrote several articles about politics, and the interpretation of contemporary music.
He translated Eric Hobsbawm's Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz into French for Aden Editions
Igor Semenoff (°1966) studied violin with Philipp Hirshhorn and got the first prize in chamber music and his superior certificate of violin at the Royal Academy of Brussels. He teaches violin at the Academy of Brussels and at the Conservatory of Mons, as well as Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoy of Brussels. He's a member of Ictus since 1994.