Illustration : Gerard Daval (AI)
OWCZAREK I LAURO I ORINS
FRI DEC 8th I 19:00
MASTER IMPROVISED MUSIC I SAX I SAX I DRUMS
Haekem Theatre: Rue de Laeken - 66 Lakensestraat - 1000 Brussels
Paulina Owczarek and Peter Orins met in 2015, when they were both invited by pianist and conductor Satoko Fujii to participate in the creation of the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin. A few concerts and two records of the orchestra later, the two musicians, one living in Krakow in Poland, the other in Lille in France, keep in touch or cross paths at concerts…
In 2019, the saxophonist invites the drummer to play his solo in Krakow, and the two take the opportunity to try the duet experience: the meeting is luminous.
Both musicians are fond of a total and unlimited freedom, and of a research on timbres and sound experimentations.
Close-up sound, play on the breaths and squeaks of objects, minimal approach but also raw energy that reminds a certain tradition of the saxophone-drum duo in the history of free-jazz…
For this concert they invite the Brussel based saxophone player Audrey Lauro, who plays with Peter Orins in a trio together with Christian Pruvost.
Paulina Owczarek – saxophonist and improviser, graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow. She plays the alto and baritone sax.
Interested mainly in free improvisation, she also performs contemporary chamber music, having premièred numerous new works for saxophone in Poland.
She is an active member of improvised and experimental music scene, taking part in Krakow free improv projects (such as Institute Of Intuition, Muzykoterapia) and international festivals of contemporary and improvised music (Ad Libitum, Hurta Cordel, Musica Electronica Nova, Ostrava Days, Lublin Jazz Festival, AudioArt, Sound Exchange, Krakow Jazz Autumn, Mirror Mirror, Discordian Community Riot, No Woman No Art, Unsound, Soundance, Saalfelden Jazz Festival).
The founder and conductor of Krakow Improvisers Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to conducted improvisation. Currently she is also involved in groups such as Morświn, Human.error, Dust Mite Paradise and Sambar.
She has been a member of London Improvisers Orchestra and Satoko Fuji Orchestra; she has worked with theatres: Teatr Stary, Teatr Sztuk and Krakow Opera and has improvised with poets, dancers and painters.
Audrey Lauro : Brussels-based saxophonist A.L trained in composition, jazz and contemporary music.
She then devoted her energies to experimental music and particularly to improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instrument, phrase and sonic event.
«From phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles».
A.L started in 2002 a jazz cursus at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition cursus at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège.
Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad.
She meets on her artistic path recognized musicians such as Mark Sanders, John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Bernard Santacruz, Makoto Sato, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, Sabu Toyozumi, Marc Ribot, …
Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, the album solo «Sous un ciel d'écailles» was released in 2022 on the Gent label El Negocito records, retracing a work for saxophone solo started in 2011.
Peter Orins is a French drummer, who has been playing jazz, improvised and experimental music since the mid-90’s.
In 2001 he created the Circum collective (now called Muzzix) for which he’s still one of the artistic directors.
Leading numerous projects inside the collective, from solo works to big orchestras, he also plays with many international musicians (Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Ikue Mori, Dave Rempis, Joke Lanz, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Anthony Pateras, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Sophie Agnel, and Christine Wodrascka and others), and is very active on the improvised music scene in France and abroad.
Since 2004, he has managed Circum-Disc, an artist-run label which has released some 100 recordings.
IN: 10€ ALL FOR THE ARTISTS
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