Champ d'Action

Basics

Artistic director:Serge Verstockt
Conductor:Various guest conductors
Size:up to approx. 16 musicians (variable)
Instruments:

All instruments

Specific equipment:

Up to date electronic studio for pre-production, production and post-production. Also included is a recording studio.

CountryBelgium
Partner

Statistics

20082007200620052004
Performances314221
Pieces212619
National Pieces10129
International Pieces111410
First performances986
Commisions986
Audience597068905630

Repertoire

Main national repertoire

Karel Goeyvaerts - Litanie IV
Karel Goeyvaerts - Das Haar
Serge Verstockt - Feuillage du coeur
Serge Verstockt - Voder
Stefan Van Eycken - Techno Park
Luc Brewaeys - Oban
Luc Brewaeys - Painted Pyramids
Peter Swinnen - Hodechtri

International repertoire

Luigi Nono - Quando Stanno Morendo, diario Polacca
Vinko Globokar - Laboratorium
Vinko Globokar - Accord
Richard Barrett - Codex VIII
Morton Feldman : Crippled Symmetry
Lois Vierk - Red Shift
Steve Reich : Music for Mallet instruments, organ and voices
James Tenney : Critical Band / Harmonium II
James Wood - Hildegard (commission)

Potential use of the Re:new repertoire

CHAMP D'ACTION will select works from the offer and construct thematical programmes around it to incorporate the pieces in our regular programming, national and international. In addition a special concert can be organized together with the collegue Flemish ensemble SPECTRA to give a first national presentation of the yearly selected works in Flanders.

Submitted pieces

Serge Verstockt - Dry
Serge Verstockt - Low
Stefan Van Eycken - Techno Park
Stefan Van Eycken - White River dream song
Luc Brewaeys - Oban
Luc Brewaeys - Painted Pyramids
Peter Swinnen - Hodechtri - Stefan Prins Ventriloquium

Address book

Adress

Champ d'Action
Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 155
2018 Antwerpen
Tel : + 32 3 231 57 53
Fax : + 32 3 203 04 77
Mobile : + 32 476 32 99 95
ann.andries@champdaction.be

website

www.champdaction.be

 


Information

Champ d’Action is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to creating new music as well as presenting the existing repertoire in a contemporary context.
Champ d’Action oversees the creative process from initial explorations to performance, developing and integrating new technology in a creative environment. Champ d’Action nurtures long-term relationships with composers and performers and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration.

Champ d’Action develops workshop models designed to confront young musicians and composers with new musical forms and instrumental techniques.

Activity

Participation

ARS MUSICA - Brussels
KLARAFESTIVAL - Brussels
Festival van Vlaanderen - Ghent
Transit Festival - Leuven
Artefact Festival - Leuven
Music@venture Festival - Antwerp
November Music - Ghent / Den Bosch
Output Festival - Amsterdam
Holland Festival - Amsterdam
Festival De Branding - Den Haag
Musica Sacra - Maastricht
Wien Modern - Vienna
Salzburger Festspiele - Austria
Ruhr Triennale - Germany
etc

Participation abroad

Last tour 2007 - Requiem für eine Metamorphose (Jan Fabre ) - music by Serge Verstockt - Salzburger Festspiele - Ruhr Triennale and Sirenos Festival in Vilnius.

Discography

Kaija Saariaho, New Gates
Champ d'Action
Conducted by James Wood (2,3)
Released By: mode, New York

Screens, Multimedia CD
Champ d'Action
Composed by Serge Verstockt
Released By: cd-a, Belgium

CDA Plays Karel Goeyvaerts
Conducted by Alain Franco
Released By: MEGADISC, Belgium

PIANO INTERIEUR
Works for the inside of the piano by Peter Swinnen, Keiko Harada and Stefan Prins
CD - Archive series Nr. 1

TECHNO PARK
Composition by Stefan Van Eycken
CD - Archive series Nr. 2

SERGE VERSTOCKT
Noumena I, Feuillage du coeur and LOW
(all works for ensemble by Serge Verstockt)
CD - Archive series Nr. 3

MORE OR LESS
Composition by Karlheinz Essl (two versions)
CD- Archive series Nr. 5

Concert relations

Champ d'Action is ensemble in residence in the arts centre deSingel and has a structrual collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary art in Antwerp (MuHKA and MuHKA media).

Media relations

Coming soon