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Belgian composer (born 1969)
Pierre Kolp is a Belgian
composer and music
pedagogue born in
Cologne, Germany, on 23 March 1969.
[1]
With composers
Juan Carlos Tolosa,
Francis Ubertelli, and
David Nuñezañez, he founded the
Black Jackets Company in 1995,
[2] an international society of contemporary arts based in Brussels.
Work
For many years, Kolp has taught
music theory,
organology,
aesthetics, history, and
composition. In 1997, he became director of the
Institut de rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique, an educational institute in Brussels. In 2004, he became president of the Francophone Association of Belgian Music Academies and delegate to the
European Music Schools Union.
Kolp has written several articles on creativity, time, and musical spaces.
[3]
He gave composition master classes at the
National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 1999, and at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2002. He also works with conductor
Juan Carlos Tolosa, composer
André Ristic, and virtuoso
Stephane Ginsburgh, all three of whom have also taught at the Institut de rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique.
Catalogue of Works
[4]
Orchestra
- Cosmose (2006–2008), 40 minutes
- Ho, mia kor' (2007), 8 minutes
- Los cometas colorados – opera (2002), 10 minutes
- Manimatrix (2002–2004), 25 minutes
- Stop Exchange (2008), 20 minutes
Stage
- Désirs chorégraphiques – music for dance (1994), 14 minutes
- Los cometas colorados – opera (2002), 10 minutes
- The Eyes of Ambush – stage music (2003), 8 minutes
- Perdre corps – music for dance (2005), 13 minutes
Chamber ensemble
- Chant contre champs – for 7 players (1994), 6 minutes
- Antipasti – for 7 players (1995), 12 minutes
- Mat – for 6 players (1996), 14 minutes
- Have a Break – for 6 players (1997), 18 minutes
- Passerelle – for 4 players and electronics (1999), 8 minutes
- Mani – for various combinaisons of players (2001–2002)
- Wet Wet Wet Wedding – for 3 players and tape (2004), 3–15 minutes
Chamber music
- Sept Blasons – for wind quintet (1994), 14 minutes
- Interchamps – for 2 flutes and guitar (1994), 14 minutes
- Speaker – for flute quartet (1995), 6 minutes
- I ching – for flute and guitar (1996), 10 minutes
- Incipit vita nova – first piano trio (2001), 7 minutes
- So-mani dreams are explored – second piano trio (2005), 15 minutes
- The Bowling' Stones – for 2 pianos (2006), 9 minutes
- Plug-in – for 2 pianos (2007), 6 minutes
Solo instrument
- P as T – for alto (2005)
- Sub-Negation – for any solo instrument, 2 versions (2007–2008), 12 minutes
- Portiques génitifs – for cello (1994), 6 minutes
- Beaver Tuned – for piano (1998), 10 minutes
- Due scherzi – for piano (2007), 12 minutes
- So Slow the Snow – for piano (2006), 10 minutes
Vocal music
- Eggs – for choir (1994), 8 minutes
- Hors d'un coffret de Santal – 7 melodies for one singer and piano (1997), 12 minutes
References
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