tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET
Marlies Debacker is a Belgian pianist of new music and improvised music – with center of life in Cologne.
In her music she is mainly dedicated to the relationship between free improvisation and contemporary composed music. She is just as intensively engaged in exploring the sound possibilities of the grand piano – she tries to use the piano in a more colorful and orchestral way through differentiated key and pedal playing as well as through extended playing techniques, „inside piano“ playing and prepared piano....
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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET
Marlies Debacker is a Belgian pianist of new music and improvised music – with center of life in Cologne.
In her music she is mainly dedicated to the relationship between free improvisation and contemporary composed music. She is just as intensively engaged in exploring the sound possibilities of the grand piano – she tries to use the piano in a more colorful and orchestral way through differentiated key and pedal playing as well as through extended playing techniques, „inside piano“ playing and prepared piano.
„Shimmer, my debut solo album, offers a glimpse into the music which has been evolving in my mind over the last few years.
The recording brings together my engagement with different musical styles and approaches to improvisation to create music which explores the sonority of the piano, in particular the rich sound-world of its many spectra and resonances.
Through improvisations and short concept pieces I was able to dive into the complexity of different acoustic phenomena or structures while simultaneously maintaining a playful and curious attitude towards the material thereby composing sound constellations in the moment.
Pseudo-electronic sounds, electrically amplified strings, harmonics and preparations form a genre-crossing sound palette with a great variety of expressive possibilities.I invite listeners to listen and discover their own associations with these forms and soundscapes in the hope that all can enjoy the deep exploration of the grand piano’s spectral world as much as I did.“
MD
Marlies studied piano at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen, Master at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Master Neue Musik at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen.
In 2016 she founded Trio Abstrakt with Shiau-Shiuan Hung (percussion) and Salim Javaid (saxophone) – an ensemble for new music, which is currently funded by the ‚InSzene‘ program of the German Music Council. Trio Abstrakt has already worked with composers such as Mark Andre, Franck Bedrossian, Peter Ablinger, Isabel Mundy, Elnaz Seyedi, Hans Thomalla, Marco Momi, Michael Edwards and Clemens Gadenstätter.
Her other projects include her improvisational duo Debacker/Javaid and her piano duo with Judith Wegmann (CH). Together with Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Salim Javaid, Debacker has curated Plattform Nicht Dokumentierbarer Ereignisse, a concert series for experimental music in Cologne, since 2017. She is also a member of the Cologne-based collective for improvised and contemporary music IMPAKT.
Marlies participated as composer and pianist in the Frank Castorf productions ‚Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben‘ (Schauspiel Köln) and ‚MOLIÈRE‘ (Schauspiel Köln).
She has performed as a soloist, ensemble and improvising musician with the Trio Abstrakt, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, Kammerelektronik, hand werk, Ensemble S201 and various other ensembles at festivals such as Biennale del Arte Venice, moers festival, NOW! Essen, Klangspuren Schwaz, Impuls Graz, Mozartfest Würzburg, Biennale Aktueller Musik Bremen, HumaNoise congress Wiesbaden, Winterjazz Köln, Serious Series Berlin, Manila Composers Lab and Acht Brücken.
Marlies has been a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln since 2020.
www.marliesdebacker.com
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