Jean guihen queyras interview tips

  • I also advise players to be deeply interested in composers, and not concentrate solely on creating a big sound or showing off their technique.
  • There's a good bit from the WETA version of this interview with Jean-Guihen Queyras that fell on the cutting room floor.
  • Mr Queyras, what were the decisive factors in choosing the music for this project?

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    Rosas

    An interview with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras by Jan Vandenhouwe

    Six scores of Bach's cello suites lie scattered on a large, wooden desk. Spread between them, visitors may find sketches of colourful geometric patterns and treatises on Leibniz, Newton, physics, astronomy, Bach and alchemy. In the centre of the room, five dancers and a cellist – the instrument pinched between the musician's legs – are seated around the very same table. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jean-Guihen Queyras and a troupe of dancers are preparing for a new performance at the Rosas studios in Vorst. While the world-renowned cellist is playing the allemande from the first suite, he talks the dancers through the harmonic and rhetoric structure of Bach’s piece. Everybody eagerly takes down notes on their personalised scores .

    “I'm extremely grateful and honoured that Jean-Guihen, despite his busy tour agenda, is taking the time to work with us here”, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker c

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    From 20-29 October the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ hosts the 6th edition of the Cello Biennale. As always the programme is packed from morning mot night with concerts, masterclasses, a market for cello builders and music publishers, and a competition for young cellists.

    The opening concert on Friday 21 presents Unraveled, a new work by Composer Laureate Mayke Nas, for the four cellists of the Biennale Cello Band, Slagwerk Den Haag and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

    On Wednesday 26 October Jean-Guihen Queyras will play the Dutch première of the Cello Concerto bygd Gilbert Amy (1936), with the Symphony Orchestra of the Amsterdam Conservatoire. The French cellist fryst vatten a great champion of Amy, who is little known in Holland. Queyras was kind enough to answer five questions after his concert in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ on 13 October.

    Thea Derks & Jean-Guihen Queyras Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ 11-2-2016

    What attracts you in Amy’s Cello Concerto?

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    »BATHING IN MUSIC«

    Artist in Residence Jean-Guihen Queyras’s formative influence on the current season of the Gürzenich Orchestra is not only on a musical level. For »The Colour of Music«, he has joined forces with his son, the painter Jérémie Queyras, who will create a large-sized painting to the sounds of Bach and Boulez amongst others.

    Mr Queyras, what were the decisive factors in choosing the music for this project?

    I really wanted to seize the opportunity to play together with the orchestra’s cello group. »Messagesquisse« by Pierre Boulez is written for violoncello solo and six violoncelli. This short, intense piece is very dear to me and it creates a common bond within the group. I studied it with Pierre Boulez and made a CD recording of it, and that is an experience inom would like to pass on. In contrast, we are playing a concerto from the early Classical period, a cello concerto by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Hi