*Who can say what the world is? The world is in flux, therefore unreadable, the winds shifting, the great plates invisibly shifting
Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Marina Delicado, Marie Goudot, Ruben Martinez Orio, Michael Schmid, Mohamed Toukabri, Tom Pauwels & Ula Sickle
New work for ensemble and electronics in space
Ashley, Cox, Anderson
Ictus Invites!
A major reunion with the conductor who built the Ictus ensemble
Ictus at Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels
New dance project after Bartók
Eva Reiter, Geert De Bièvre
Bernard Heidsieck reenacted
Electric chamber music
Choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, music by Steve Reich
Timeless soul music for the Winter solstice. Meskerem Mees, Lore Binon, JL Fafchamps
A dance-music matrix inspired by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Anthony Braxton’s scores
Klangspuren #3! — A collective soundwalk with Michael Schmid, Eva Reiter and Tom Pauwels.
Work in progress
Music for Eighteen Musicians van Steve Reich : een monument uit de tweede helft van vorige eeuw.
An opera by Simon Steen-Andersen
Georges Aperghis and more
Jung, Emmery, Verlaak, Slinckx
A Liquid Room with Contrechamps
Fafchamps, Sukič, Kokoras & Braxton in Plasencia
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Music: Gérard Grisey
Choreography by Noé Soulier
(Festival ECLAT, Stuttgart)
Nocturnal vocal chamber music
Fausto Romitelli again and again
Brussels Philharmonic joins Ictus: the orchestra explodes!
Vivier, Grisey, Medeksaite, Tjøgersen | with Brussels Philharmonic, Ilan Volkov, Lore Binon, Caspar Langhoff
Kris Verdonck, Annelies Van Parys, Katelijne Damen, Anna Clare-Hauf, Mooni Van Tichel
For kids only. Sarhan, Filidei, De Mey, Appelbaum, Pauwels.
Ives, Reich, Bryars
Chamber music and Kentridge's films
The theater of Speech, Volume IV
Philip Glass, concert version, with Suzanne Vega & Collegium Vocale Gent
Academy for composers, with Frédéric Durieux, Clemens Gadenstätter, Dmitri Kourliandski, Johanna Vargas, Marie Ythier
A project by Kobe Van Cauwenberghe after Anthony Braxton's scores.
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Music by Steve Reich
Multi-repertoires chamber music, from Renaissance to contemporary
Brussels Philharmonic, Ictus, Ilan Volkov
Totally kult
Premiere
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Dance, speech, music
Europalia 2022, voyage-concert
Concert-lecture
Electric duet
Ce concert réunit un quatuor à cordes amplifié et « l’Orgue du Voyage » modulaire de Jean-Baptiste Monnot — un monstre en kit composé de
Reiter, Sarhan, Trapani, Fafchamps
Soulier & Naegelen
directed by Oscar Bianchi
Two pianos
The Fluxus movement blasted open artistic boundaries and was one of the originators of happenings and performance art.
A new series produced by Ictus in its temporary headquarters at the Wild Gallery, Brussels
Brussels new stage
Opening evening!
Christophe Guiraud, concert | Iris Terdjiman, painting exhibition
Vocal and speech-driven performances. Medley.
In concert, highlights of the International Young Composers Academy 2021
ictus studios
Binaural music theater with headphones
Chamber music & film
Theater
Festival Manifeste, Paris
Dance
Chamber music
For young audience.
New work for trumpet, santur and ensemble
Percussion quartert
All you need to know about the ictus season 19-20
Since season 2014-15 until season 2018-19
Breathcore, instrumental music, electronic music: a very special edition for Ictus' Birthday.
A tribute to Fluxus.
Binaural chamber music
Minimalist percussion music
Musica Festival 2019 : opening concert on 4 stages
String quartets: Béla Bartók, Klaus Lang
A trio for glass bottles and tape by Hanna Eimermacher
Noise music for 5 musicians and Revox
Music theater
Constructivist cartoons, stroh-music and Daniil Harms poems
Quartet
A new opera by Gérard Pesson and David Lescot
Chamber music, breathings, lightings
A new opera by Klaus Lang, a commission of the Bayreuther Festspiele
String quartet & clarinet
Between opera, documentary cinema and installation | Jorge León, Eva Reiter, George van Dam.
Vocal chamber music
Between contemporary, Baroque and Renaissance repertoires
Sound poetry, spoken word, modal music and a touch of animal virtuosity.
Electric and vocal chamber music
Piano solo
Viola & flutes
Dance performance in museum
Electric guitars duet
Two pianos and electronics
A two day conference which aims to unpack the shapes and possibilities of participatory sound art and music practices today.
Two pianos & electronics
Chamber music with accordion
Reich : Music for Eighteen Musicians (Bozar, Main Hall) | Riley : A rainbow in curved air (Bozat, Hall Horta) | With Synergy Vocals
Stockhausen and other cosmic pieces
Martin Schüttler, Hanna Eimermacher, Francesca Verunelli, James Saunders
Mikrophonie, Kontakte, Signale zur Invasion
One-act opera by Alexander Zemlinsky, 1922, after Oscar Wilde | Conductor : Franck Ollu | Stage direction : Daniel Jeanneteau
Piano and string trio
Early & contemporary music
with Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
Music and visual performances
Nocturne concert on the site of the Whettnall's exhibition
NON-STOP MUSIC FROM SUNSET TO SUNRISE
Music for hearing-impaired and everybody
A project by Michael Schmid
Dance & live music
Chamber and ensemble music
Open scores
Weird improvised music in duet and trio. Concert in two parts.
Percussion concert
A musical journey at the Opera
A psychedelic cantata
Music, dance, light
For young audience
Music for large ensemble
“No crucifixion has ever seemed so devastating”, wrote the composer about Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, which is the inspiration be
A Musical
Percussion: Tom De Cock
Improvised music with Marc Ducret
Underworld & Afterworld music
from Monteverdi to Xenakis
For soprano and ensemble, after Lorenzo Da Ponte
New opera by Wolfgang Mitterer. Original libretto by Gerhild Steinbuch. Staged by Ludovic Lagarde.
Concert with commentary
More than 4 hours with Morton Feldman : For Philip Guston, 1984
Back in Brussels ! Ht Theater Fstvl | SEP 11 12 13
Antheil in KORTRIJK
Olivier Messiaen, 1941, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
A minimalist evening in Handelsbeurs.
Four stages, many works and many guests...
Happy day in Opéra de Lille
Concert-lecture : 20th century solo piano.
Michaël Levinas & Jean-Luc Plouvier, pianos, e-keyboards
A weird evening in Kaaitheater. Billone, Gordon, Lanza.
The public that surrounds the ensemble assembled in a circle for a 60-minute performance: **Timber** by the New York composer Michaël Go
Do it yourself !
2 pianos by Georges Aperghis
Wim Vandekeybus, Thierry De Mey, Peter Vermeersch | Ulitma Vez & Ictus | 1987/2013 : revival with live music
Igor Stravinsky : L'Histoire du Soldat | Georges Aperghis : Le Soldat Inconnu
Concerts with commentary
Music & Video in Centro Culturale San Fedele, Milano
String trio.
In offering us the fruits of his Japanese culture, Toshio Hosokawa teaches us to slightly adjust our musical ear.
Cédric Dambrain solo and in duo with Gerrit Nulens (drums)
Festival in La Meije : new piece by M. Levinas for piano and electronic keyboards. Messiaen : Visions de l'Amen (two pianos).
Open Music, Graz (Austria)
Ictus fellows, conducted by Georges-Elie Octors
Choreography : Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Music : Béla Bartók, György Ligeti
Helmut Oehring, after C. Monteverdi and J. Conrad, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the Opera de Lille
Since 2000, Fafchamps is working on the development of a vast network of cycles – the Sufi Letters.
Concert with commentary in Lille Opera : Tristan Murail, Territoires de l'Oubli, 1977. Fabian Coomans, piano
A Marathon-Concert in Opéra de Lille, 2012
Edition II : Fafchamps, Reiter, Aperghis, Bauer/Peck, Schubert, De La Fuente
A Dada / Futurist event in "Auditorium des Musées", Strasbourg
A Liquid Room on 4 stages with guest performers of medieval music, and two premieres by Yeznikian and Guiraud
... an oratorio, but with smaller forces: three sopranos and a large, mixed ensemble.
Music and direction : Georges Aperghis. Libretto : Aperghis / Szendy after Melville & ...
George van Dam, Igor Semenoff
Schoenberg / Giraud, Debussy / De Mey, Verrières / Ravel, Ictus, Marianne Pousseur, Georges-Elie Octors, François Deppe
...de zelfverklaarde Bad Boy of Music uit het begin van de XXstye eeuw brengt Ictus het futuristische Ballet Mécanique.
With Rosas, 994. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Thierry De Mey
Happy Birthday, Luc
Marathon-Concert
Opera in three scenes by Luca Francesconi after Heiner Müller, staged by Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)
Six Ictus Fellows have decided to take up the challenge of giving a concert without musical instruments.
Roque Rivas, 2007
11 films by Thierry De Mey, choreographed by AT De Keersmaeker, set to music by 11 composers
Oratorio by Georges Aperghis after Heiner Müller
Ictus + 100 musicians from 5 different brassbands perform in the streets of Brussels
Georges Aperghis, Hans Op de Beeck
A music theatre performance on three platforms, by François Sarhan
Laborintus II with parts for narrator, 3 female voices, 8 actors, 17 musicians and tape | Recorded live at the Holland Festival, 2010
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Peter Handke. Fabrizio Cassol, DJ Grazzhoppa, Ictus.
A jazz project with Bo Van Der Werf
Steen-Andersen, Webern, Stravinsky, Ligeti
Introduction Aux Ténèbres, to three texts of the Apocalypse, for bass-baritone, double bass, 13 players and live electronics
for fourteen instruments and quadraphonic tape, 1982
A complete Ligeti evening (Opéra de Lille and deSingel)
3rd performance with Rosas
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, De Mey, Bartok, Beethoven
François Sarhan's pop evening
12 muzikanten spelen meer dan 15 composities op 5 verschillende podia in één ruimte en dat alles non-stop en op één avond.
Chamber opera by Philippe Manoury, libretto by Daniela Langer, directed by Yoshi Oïda
Magnus Lindberg : KRAFT for orchestra and ensemble of soloists
Trio for Strings, 1958
Contemporary music, but a way of listening to it as though at a rock festival or an electronic improvisation night, on 4 stages.
Ictus String Quartet presents : John Adams, Øyvind Torvund, Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, James Dillon
A seamless evening on three stages, related to the past and present of the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik of Darmstadt
Gustav Mahler : Der Abschied (from "Das Lied von der Erde") - Transcription : Arnold Schoenberg
Riccardo Nova : piece for wind quintet and mridangam
Bosse, crane rasé, nez crochu (for two pianos, ensemble, electronic sounds)
a cantata written by Oscar Bianchi for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, 3 soloists and electronics
A florilege of Tom Johnson's music
La Métamorphose, opera by Michaël Levinas, based on Franz Kafka, preceded by Je, Tu, Il, a prologue from Valère Novarina
Brian Ferneyhough, performed by Michael Schmid
Paul De Clerck plays Berio. Concert with commentary
Two versions of Les Noces by Stravisnky : 1919 (with pianola, harmonium and two cimbaloms), and 1923
Georges Aperghis, after Heiner Müller
People / Time tells a story, or rather, some stories : that one about a decaying leaf, those ones about roads, which white bands become
Choreography and live music after "Professor Bad Trip" Cycle by Fausto Romitelli
Creation of complete cycle, Lessons I, II, III
Shhhhhhhht...
Carnatic rhythms and electric orkestra
Wolfgang Rihm : Musik für drei Streicher for string trio, 1977 In MUba Museum, Tourcoing
4 hours and 33 seconds
Vivier, Fafchamps, Mochizuki
for actor, ensemble, surround souind and video screen
Francesconi, Nancarrow, Adams
A chamber concert for flute, viola & harp. Debussy, Saariaho, Hosokawa
PARTS & GAME - The Funerals
Jean-Luc Fafchamps Plays Morton Feldman
Premiere van een performance project van Ictus rond een ‘band’-bezetting.
"Parcours musical" for children in Opéra de Lille
Opera by Jonathan Harvey and Jean-Claude Carrière, staged by Pierre Audi
Works by Harry Partch arranged by Tim Mariën
Marcel Berlanger was born in 1965 in Brussels where he lives and works today.
Theatrical and musical piece, after the novel Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald.
Opéra de Lille, 2007
Ligeti, Leroux, Reich, Usher-Nancarrow
T. Waits : songs from The Black Rider & Frank’s Wild Years | K. Weill : songs from Mahagonny, Dreigroschen Opera, Lady in the Dark
Introduzione all'oscuro | Le Ragioni delle Conchiglie | Centauro Marino | Quintettino N.1, etc.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Music by De Mey, Xenakis, Grisey, Stravinsky (Les Noces)
A portrait
1999, with Rolande Van der Paal, Romain Bischoff and Linda Hirst. Conductor : Peter Rundel.
Some significant concerts in 1999
Some significant Ictus concerts in 1998
Some significant Ictus concerts in 1997
Some significant Ictus concerts in 1995
An overview of the season (NL, ENG, FR)
Some significant Ictus concerts in 1994
Editorial and Notes [three languages]
Some significant Ictus concerts in 1996
