Vanpaemel, Craenen, Guiraud, Shlomowitz

Already at an early age Jasper Vanpaemel (b. 1986) was influenced by a wide variety of musical genres. From 2004 to 2013 he studied piano & composition with Jan Michiels, Peter Swinnen & Franklin Gyselinck at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. In 2009 Jasper studied electronic music (sonology) at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Richard Barrett and Kees Tazelaar.

Jasper’s compositions include original works and arrangements, both solo and ensemble pieces, varying between traditional instrumentations and interdiscliplinary multimedia set-ups. As a performing musician Jasper is active in various fields. With Jasper Braet he explores new ways of dynamic and aesthetic expression and performance.

8 Little Indians was realised in cooperation with Jonas Cambien (melodica), Lien Tallon (costumes) en Tom Beets (audio source).

Website Jasper Vanpaemel

Paul Craenen is a research professor, composer and music curator and a frequently demanded expert at the intersection of artistic practice, education and research. He studied piano and chamber music at the Lemmens Institute, Leuven and taught piano and experimental music at various music schools and intermedia studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s, he has also been active as a composer, sound artist and researcher. He has been director of Musica, a Flemish organisation for art education, from 2012 to 2018. In early 2018 he was appointed Research Professor and head of the lectorate Music, Education and Society at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. He is also a guest lecturer at Leiden University.

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Ars Subtilior (14th century) and Noise: the two inspirations of Christophe Guiraud, like two rivers  woven into a writing of great power. The young French composer is the link between the most accomplished scholarly music and some radical aspects of noise.

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