Ensemble Aleph, ensemble de musique contemporaine

 Ensemble Aleph was born in 1983 and is still in good health...

Ensemble Aleph is a partnership of soloists, in a flexible formation, an ensemble of musicians united by their enthusiasm for living theatre, innovators who want to serve composers while also exploring new ways to relate sound and text, movement and music. Ensemble Aleph resists precise definition and attempts to give it an inadequate and restrictive label. Audiences at performances by Ensemble Aleph - of staged works such as Frequents Stops, or concerts offering an overview of contemporary music- are invited to embark upon an exciting discovery voyage. To encourage a novel approach to well-known works (Cage revisited through Sophie Mathey's choreography, for instance), and to present new talent such as Eric de Clerq: both are natural for Aleph.
Aleph is the theatre of music, with its masks, tricks and brilliance, perhaps even with shadows and hopes, most certainly with footlights, wings, steps and ladders.
To put it more simply, Aleph is constantly evolving, offering ready access to the world of sound as it merges and disperses for our pleasure. Above all, Aleph stands for an unreserved commitment to artistic creation, turning a deaf to ear to the lure of current trends. So let us listen to Ensemble Aleph as genial smugglers of contemporary art: someone's got to do the job! Always smiling, because that's just how they are.
With more than 150 world premieres to its credit, Ensemble Aleph is considered to be an "instrument of choice" by composers of diverse aesthetic directions. Aleph regularly presents major 20th-century works by Berio, Boucourechliev, Boulez, Bussotti, Cage, Grisey, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Messiaen, Scelsi, Stockhausen, Xenakis and Zimmermann. Aleph has also performed new works by Philippe Boivin, Jean-Yves Bosseur,Bernard de Vienne, Olivier Dejours, Jean-Baptiste Devillers, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith, Bruno Giner, James Giroudon, Vinko Globokar, Pierre-Alain Jaffrenou, José Manuel Lopez-Lopez, Dan Lustgarten, Drake Mabry, Robert Pascal, Jacques Rebotier, Diogène Rivas, François Rossé, Camille Roy, Pierre Strauch, Aurel Stroe, Fabien Téhéricsen, Horacio Vaggione and Nicolas Vérin.Aleph is committed to interdisciplinary art forms, especially music theatre and music/dance performance.

Check the season brochure 2010-2011 (in French)

Check the presentation brochure of the LIEU - European Instrumental Laboratory (texts in 8 languages)

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