Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles

Basics

Artistic director:Jean-Paul Dessy
Conductor:Jean-Paul Dessy
Size:variable (from 1 to +- 20 musicians)
Instruments:

violin, viola, cello, harp, flute, oboe, French horn, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, double bass, electric guitar, percussion, keyboards, piano, accordion, bandoneon, electronics...

Specific equipment:

sometimes amplified music and use of electronic devices

CountryBelgium
PartnerWallonie-Bruxelles Musiques

Statistics

20082007200620052004
Performances
Pieces
National Pieces
International Pieces
First performances
Commisions
Audience

Repertoire

Main national repertoire

Henry Pousseur: La Seconde Apothéose de Rameau, Quintet à la mémoire d'Anton Webern

Pierre Bartholomée: Requiem, 7 x 7

Philippe Boesmans: Ornamented Zone, Sextuor, Julie

Claude Ledoux: Sanaalijal, Quintet

Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves, Trio

Jean-Paul Dessy: The Present's Presents, Orée-Oraison-Hors-Raison

Michel Fourgon: Quatuor, Micro-concerto

Denis Bosse: Obstinatissimo

Gilles Gobert: Sextuor

Anne Martin: A remonter le temps, les Sept Moments de l'Arc-en-ciel

Benoît Mernier : Les Niais de Sologne

International repertoire

Giacinto Scelsi: Khoom, Natura Renovatur

Fausto Romitelli: Amok Koma, Flowing down to slow

Horatiu Radulescu: Khufu's Serpent, Quatuor n°5

Astor Piazzolla : Maria de Buenos Aires

Dimitri Yanov Yanovski: Concerto for piano, Concerto for Harpsichord, Concerto for Organ

David Lang: Pierced, Little Eye

Bruno Letort: Lignes

Sylvestrov: Four Postludes, Hymn

Dhruba Ghosh: Sarangi Strings

Alexander Knaifel: Agnus Dei

Hao Fu Zhang : Sextuor

Lok Yin Tang : The Giving Tree, Suona pour quatuor à cordes

Atsuhiko Gondai : Yuragi

Potential use of the Re:new repertoire

The re:new repertoire will provide us with a very good basis to discover new pieces and enrich our programmation.

Submitted pieces

Claude Ledoux: Quintet

Victor Kissine : Traverso

Philippe Boesmans : Ornamented Zones

Pierre Bartholomée : 7x7

Denis Bosse: Obstinatissimo

Michel Fourgon : Quatuor

Hao-Fu Zhang : Sextuor

Jean-Paul Dessy : The Present's Presents

Baudouin de Jaer : Eclerectic Attracta, trio à cordes pour 2 violons et cello (1987)

Benoît Mernier : Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano (2003)

Address book

Adress

Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles 4a rue des Soeurs Noires 7000 Mons

Director: Jean-Paul Dessy

Manager: Julie Grawez (julie.grawez@lemanege-mons.be)

Communication/sales: Fabienne Wilkin (fabienne.wilkin@lemanege-mons.be) + 32 488 67 79 71

Publications : Isabelle Françaix (isabellefrancaix@ramifications.be)

Website: http://www.musiquesnouvelles.com

website

http://www.musiquesnouvelles.com

 


Information

Musiques Nouvelles is a group of virtuoso and inventive musicians taking part seasonally in about forty concerts and trans-disciplinary performances (video, dance, literature, electronic arts, installations…), of which around twenty are new works. Musiques Nouvelles has been founded by Henry Pousseur and Pierre Bartholomée in 1962. Amongst others, it produces discographic recordings, organises residencies of world-known foreign composers, edits a publication, develops new technological supports related to multimedia as an instrument of creation as well as a diffusion device. Musiques Nouvelles has been based in Mons (Belgium) since 1998 and is under the direction of the composer, cellist and conductor Jean-Paul Dessy.
 For more information visit: http://www.musiquesnouvelles.com

Activity

Participation

Festival de Wallonie, Klara Festival, Ars Musica, les Nuits Botanique, VIA, City Sonics, Charleroi Danses, Les 38ièmes Rugissants, Les Hivernales, le Printemps de Bourges, le Festival de Laon, Festival international des musiques d’aujourd’hui, Arcadi, Biennale Musiques en Scène, Festival d’île de France, Festival Climats, Musica, CDMC (Spain), Muzički biennale Zagreb, Warsaw Autumn, Edinburgh International Festival

Participation abroad

Fennesz versus Musiques Nouvelles : touring in France & Italy Re-Max !: touring in France & Spain

KHOOM (cie Mossoux Bonté/Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles) : touring in France

Kilda, l’île des Hommes-Oiseaux : touring in France and in the UK

Sonic Cathedral : touring in France

Discography

Claude Ledoux, d'Orients

Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Tantric Coupling 
(Megadisc, 2006)

Pierre Bartholomée - Ex Abrupto (Cyprès records, 2007)

DJ Olive/Jean-Paul Dessy, Scories 
(Sub Rosa, 2005)

Art Zoyd Studio & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Expériences de vol 4, 5, 6 (In-possible Records, 2005)


Philippe Libois, Send and Return 
(Mogno Music, 2005)

Jean-Paul Dessy, The Present’s Presents (Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi, 2005)

Various Composers, Miniatures (Subrosa, 2004)

Alexander Knaifel, Agnus Dei (Megadisc, 2004)

Henri Pousseur, Couleurs croisées, la seconde apothéose de Rameau 
(Cyprès, 2004)

Scanner/Dessy, Play Along 
(Sub Rosa, 2004)

Jean-Marie Rens, Vibrations 
(Cyprès, 2003)

Victor Kissine, Chamber Music 
(Soyuz, 2003)

Rioji Ikeda, Op. 
(Touch, 2002)

Art Zoyd Studio & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Expériences de vol 1, 2 ,3 
(Sub Rosa, 2002)

David Shea, Classical Works II 
(Tzadik, 2002)

Michael Levinas, Musique de Chambre 
(Universal, 2000)

Philippe Boesmans, Summer Dreams/Ornemented Zone/Love and dance tunes (Ricercar, 1998)

Concert relations

Concert halls in Belgium: Le Manège.Mons Flagey Bozar Les Brigittines Concertgebouw Brugge

Concert halls in France: Le Phénix de Valenciennes

Festivals in Belgium and France: Festival de Wallonie, Klara Festival, Ars Musica, les Nuits Botanique, VIA, City Sonics, Charleroi Danses, Les 38ièmes Rugissants, le Printemps de Bourges

Festival d'Edimbourgh

Media relations

Musiq’3, La Première (Belgian radio stations), Le Soir (Belgian newspaper)