March 2025

After the album Xenakis: Pléiades & Persephassa released in 2022 to mark the ensemble’s 60th anniversary the Percussions de Strasbourg are preparing a new
recording, this time exploring minimalism !

NEW ALBUM: MINIMAL
RELEASE 19th SEPTEMBER 2025

• Avant, pendant, et pourtant by Camille Pépin (France), commissioned by Percussions de Strasbourg, combining hypnotic textures and the resonant play of keyboards,
• Mallet Quartet (2009) by Steve Reich (USA), a masterpiece of the genre,
• Seven Eleven (2020) by Nik Bärtsch (Switzerland), based on interlocking rhythmic cycles,
• Sunday (2022) by Shelley Washington (USA), embodying a new generation of minimalist composers.

🗓 The programme will be performed for the first time in schools in Hautepierre, the ensemble’s home district, on 31th March 2025.

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💡Xenakis: Pléiades & Persephassa is still available to order on our website. (+)

MYOTIS V
Anthony Laguerre
March 15th, 2025
Les Bords de Scènes, Jusivy-sur-Orges, FR
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April 27th, 2025
Festival Papiripar, Hambourg (DE)
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MYOTIS X (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Composition : Anthony Laguerre
Conception, choreography : Vidal Bini

Following Myotis, his solo project, and Myotis V, written for the Percussions de Strasbourg in 2021, Vidal Bini takes up Anthony Laguerre’s piece to create a dance version: Myotis X.

Creation : 2025
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ONLY
Agata Zubel, Yijoo Hwang, Noémie Ettlin

Two upcoming dates:
March 27th, 2025**
Théâtre des 2 Rives, Charenton-le-Pont, FR
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Pre-show at 7:45 p.m

March 28th, 2025
Hexagone Scène Nationale, Meylan, FR
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Concert as part of the Détours de Babel festival

Les Percussions de Strasbourg present ONLY, a program featuring three pieces, six performers on stage and zero instruments.
Spray (2024), Agata Zubel*
Désordre (2024), Yijoo Hwang
Banquise (2024), Noémie Ettlin

*Spray, by Agata Zubel was commissioned by Les Percussions de Strasbourg and financed by Ernst Von Siemens.
**With the participation of musicians from the Maison de la Musique de Meylan and the choir from Grenoble’s Champollion College (Claire Vazart, conductor).

WORKSHOP – GRAPHIC REPORTAGE
Discover the instrumentarium in a whole new way !

Illustration and graphic reportage workshop with Hélène Bléhaut, as part of the Rencontres de l’illustration festival

Saturday, March 22th
2:30 to 5 p.m.
Percussions de Strasbourg Instrumentarium
Registration required

In the field, draw details and shapes, curves and lines, to trace familiar, neighboring and sensitive landscapes. Words and feelings can be mixed in. The result will be a
collective, sensory map of our recomposed territories.

For all ages 11 and up.
Duration: 2h30. Registration required.
Meet at 2.30 pm at 15 place André Maurois – at Percussions de Strasbourg

Registration by telephone with the Hautepierre
multimedia library (03 68 98 51 71) or online.

March 15th, 2025 – Myotis V
Anthony Laguerre
Les Bords de Scènes, Juvisy-sur-Orges (FR)
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March 25th, 2025 – POETICA
Chaya Czernowin
Festival MaerzMusik, Berlin (DE)
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March 27th, 2025 – ONLY
Zubel, Hwang, Ettlin
Théâtre de 2 Rives, Charenton-le-Pont (FR)
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March 28th, 2025 – ONLY
Zubel, Hwang, Ettlin
Hexagone Scène Nationale, Meylan (FR)
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April 27th, 2025 – Myotis V
Anthony Laguerre
Festival Papiripar, Hamburg (DE)
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May 10th, 2025 – MINIMAL
Pépin, Song, Washington, Bärtsch / Reich, Xenakis
La Coupole, Saint-Louis (FR)

May 27th, 2025 – RuptuR
Benjamin de la Fuente et Samuel Sighicelli
CRR Concert Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (TR)

June 5th, 2025 – Percustra Karaoké
avec HTP Chante & Pelicanto
Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg (FR)
Free

July 4-5, 2025 – Naturstudium III
Luis Tabuenca
Musée d’Histoire de Barcelone (ES)

Next concert at Hautepierre :
December 4th, 2025 – MINIMAL
Bärtsch, Reich, Pépin, Song, Washington
Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg (FR)