Dirk Descheemaeker

Clarinet player

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Dirk Descheemaeker (°1959) studied clarinet at the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels and graduated in 1984. He played with different ensembles such as Maximalist!, Julverne, Univers Zero, De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, Daniël Schell and Karo, Wim Mertens Ensemble,... He's an active member of Ictus ensemble and Ensemble Alternance.

Dirk Descheemaeker(°1959) a étudié la clarinette au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles et a obtenu son diplôme supérieur en 1984. Depuis il a joué dans plusieurs ensembles dont Maximalist !, Julverne, Univers Zero, De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, Daniël Schell et Karo, Wim Mertens Ensemble,...
Il est membre actif d'Ictus et de l' Ensemble Alternance.

Dirk Descheemaeker(°1959) a étudié la clarinette au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles et a obtenu son diplôme supérieur en 1984. Depuis il a joué dans plusieurs ensembles dont Maximalist !, Julverne, Univers Zero, De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, Daniël Schell et Karo, Wim Mertens Ensemble,...
Il est membre actif d'Ictus et de l' Ensemble Alternance.

Projects tagged with [Dirk Descheemaeker]

What the Body does not Remember

Wim Vandekeybus, Thierry De Mey, Peter Vermeersch | Ulitma Vez & Ictus | 1987/2013 : revival with live music

7 events & 1 audiofragment

Vortex Temporum (with Rosas)

Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Music: Gérard Grisey

49 events, 8 articles & 1 audiofragment

This Is Not A Pop Song (II)

Edition II : Fafchamps, Reiter, Aperghis, Bauer/Peck, Schubert, De La Fuente

2 events & 1 article

A day at the Opera

"Parcours musical" for children in Opéra de Lille

An Index of Metals (Fausto Romitelli, Paolo Pachini)

Totally kult

6 events, 5 articles & 1 audiofragment

SOLDAT (Stravinsky | Aperghis)

Igor Stravinsky : L'Histoire du Soldat | Georges Aperghis : Le Soldat Inconnu

Samarkand

Vivier, Fafchamps, Mochizuki

Matra

a cantata written by Oscar Bianchi for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, 3 soloists and electronics

2 articles & 1 audiofragment

Wagner Dream

Opera by Jonathan Harvey and Jean-Claude Carrière, staged by Pierre Audi

3 articles & 1 audiofragment

Laborintus II (with Mike Patton)

Laborintus II with parts for narrator, 3 female voices, 8 actors, 17 musicians and tape | Recorded live at the Holland Festival, 2010

1 audiofragment

La Frontière (Philippe Manoury, 2003)

Chamber opera by Philippe Manoury, libretto by Daniela Langer, directed by Yoshi Oïda

L'Nfer

François Sarhan's pop evening

3 articles & 1 audiofragment

Avis de Tempête (Aperghis | Szendy, 2004)

Music and direction : Georges Aperghis. Libretto : Aperghis / Szendy after Melville & ...

1 article & 1 audiofragment

Waits | Weill

T. Waits : songs from The Black Rider & Frank’s Wild Years | K. Weill : songs from Mahagonny, Dreigroschen Opera, Lady in the Dark

With Toshio Hosokawa (2005)

A portrait

Pierre Jodlowski : People / Time (2005)

People / Time tells a story, or rather, some stories : that one about a decaying leaf, those ones about roads, which white bands become

Maximum Efficiency

A florilege of Tom Johnson's music

Ma's Sequence 8

Riccardo Nova : piece for wind quintet and mridangam

Labyrinth Ligeti

A complete Ligeti evening (Opéra de Lille and deSingel)

1 audiofragment

Liquid Room I

Contemporary music, but a way of listening to it as though at a rock festival or an electronic improvisation night, on 4 stages.

Liquid Room III : Darmstadt 2012

A seamless evening on three stages, related to the past and present of the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik of Darmstadt

This is Not a Pop Song (I), 2012

Premiere van een performance project van Ictus rond een ‘band’-bezetting.

Professor (Maud Le Pladec)

Choreography and live music after "Professor Bad Trip" Cycle by Fausto Romitelli

1 audiofragment

Riley (a rainbow...) | Reich (Eighteen musicians)

Reich : Music for Eighteen Musicians (Bozar, Main Hall) | Riley : A rainbow in curved air (Bozat, Hall Horta) | With Synergy Vocals

Work/Travail/Arbeid

Dance performance in museum

4 events & 1 article

Michael Gordon | Terry Riley

A minimalist evening in Handelsbeurs.

1 event & 1 article

Concrete [Maud Le Pladec | Michael Gordon]

Music, dance, light

9 events & 1 audiofragment

American Lament (Ensemble Version)

Chamber and ensemble music

2 events, 1 article & 1 audiofragment

Jardin Des Secrets (A Nocturnal Journey)

A musical journey at the Opera

Sound & Vision (Liquid Room VII)

Music and visual performances

4 events, 2 articles & 2 audiofragments

Laborintus | For Times To Come

Music for large ensemble

1 event & 1 audiofragment

Interstices [with Amir ElSaffar]

New work for trumpet, santur and ensemble

4 events & 1 audiofragment

Liquid Room VIII : PHRASES

Sound poetry, spoken word, modal music and a touch of animal virtuosity.

1 event & 1 audiofragment

Einstein on the beach [concert version]

Philip Glass, concert version, with Suzanne Vega & Collegium Vocale Gent

25 events & 1 audiofragment

Der verschwundene Hochzeiter [KLAUS LANG]

A new opera by Klaus Lang, a commission of the Bayreuther Festspiele

1 event, 1 article & 1 audiofragment

At the bottom of the sea

String quartet & clarinet

Trois Contes [Gérard Pesson]

A new opera by Gérard Pesson and David Lescot

1 event & 1 article

Liquid Room IX: "My Greatest Hits"

Musica Festival 2019 : opening concert on 4 stages

1 event & 1 article

Proverbs [The Unanswered Question]

Ives, Reich, Bryars

ICTUS INVITES #2: GHOST TRANCE MUSIC

A project by Kobe Van Cauwenberghe after Anthony Braxton's scores.

1 event & 1 audiofragment

A WALK INTO THE FUTURE

Brussels Philharmonic, Ictus, Ilan Volkov

1 event & 1 article

For percussion, strings & winds [Ellen Arkbro]

Premiere

3 events & 1 audiofragment

Proverbs [at Musica Festival]

Ives, Reich, Bryars

Child of Light

Vivier, Grisey, Medeksaite, Tjøgersen | with Brussels Philharmonic, Ilan Volkov, Lore Binon, Caspar Langhoff

The Rise (Reiter / Vandevelde)

*Who can say what the world is? The world is in flux, therefore unreadable, the winds shifting, the great plates invisibly shifting

FEAT. ‘Pony Says’

(Festival ECLAT, Stuttgart)

Infinite Possibilities of a String

Fafchamps, Sukič, Kokoras & Braxton in Plasencia

HERE AND NOW WITH GEORGES-ELIE OCTORS (A tribute concert)

A major reunion with the conductor who built the Ictus ensemble

Watch & listen to [Dirk Descheemaeker]

Fausto Romitelli : Professor Bad Trip

“Like a Sonic Youth version of Bach” — (De Standaard, Maarten Beirens)

Georges Aperghis : Avis de Tempête [remastering]

Full version (2005) remastered in 2019

1 soundcloud track

Georges Aperghis : Die Hamletmaschine-Oratorio

A Cyprès CD, 2006. After Heiner Müller.

Terry Riley : In C

Ictus live in Chapelle des Brigittines, with Blindman Kwartet A Cyprès CD (CYP 5601)

François Sarhan : L'Nfer, un petit détail

3 excerpts from "L'Nfer, un petit détail" (CD "Pop Up", MFA 2012)

Ictus live : Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson, 4 short pieces, live in Opéra de Lille, 2006

1 soundcloud track

Vortex Temporum

Choreography : Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Music : Vortex Temporum, Gérard Grisey (1996)

Romitelli : An Index of Metals (CD)

Fausto Romitelli / Paolo Pachini : An index of metals (2003) Cyprès CD, 2006

2 downloads
12 videos

LABORINTUS II (Ictus & Mike Patton)

Luciano Berio : Laborintus II | Ictus, Mike Patton, Georges-Elie Octors. Ipecac CD.

Emmanuel Nunes : Nachtmusik

Version with electronics, 1978

Hikari Kiyama: Kabuki

VENICE, Biennale Musica 2011

Liquid Room VII: Sound & Vision (20' clip)

Liquid Room. Kaaitheater, April 2017. Duration: 20'

With Amir ElSaffar

Interstices, for ensemble, Royaumont 2017

2 soundcloud tracks

Liquid Room VIII: Phrases (teaser)

Humans, animals & cyborgs.

Grisey : VORTEX TEMPORUM I [studio version]

for piano and five instruments

WORK TRAVAIL ARBEID

in MoMA, NYC

DER VERSCHWUNDENE HOCHZEITER (Klaus Lang)

« The Lost Groom », an opera by Klaus Lang and Paul Esterhazy

Ellen Arkbro

For percussion, strings and wind (ictus in rehearsal)

Anthony Braxton

Ghost Trance Music by Anthony Braxton, with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe