Les Percussions de Strasbourg wish you all the best for the festive season. Let’s meet again in 2025 for a new year of musical adventures! 🥁
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New album in creation
MINIMAL
Camille Pépin, Yang Song, Nik Bärtsch, Shelley Washington, Steve Reich
MINIMAL is the Percussions de Strasbourg’s next recital creation. Recorded on our own label in April 2025, the album will be released in September 2025.
Program :
Camille Pépin (1990, France) – Avant, pendant, et pourtant*, 15’
Yang Song (1985, China) – Dong Echoes*
Nik Bärtsch (1971, Switzerland) – Seven Eleven
Shelley Washington (1991, USA) – Sunday
Steve Reich (1936, USA) – Mallet Quartet
* commissioned by Percussions de Strasbourg
Les Percussions de Strasbourg are embarking on a bold exploration of the minimalist repertoire, a territory somewhat removed from their usual affinities. This recording project highlights minimalist composers from diverse cultures and traditions, from France, China, Switzerland and the USA, offering a global perspective on this musical movement based on repetition, evolving motifs and sound textures.
The program will feature existing works and original creations, highlighting the diversity and richness of contemporary minimalism. Among the pieces on the program are two creations commissioned especially for this project from Camille Pépin and Yang Song. In addition to these creations, the program will include reference works from the minimalist repertoire, such as Steve Reich’s Mallet quartet (2009), Nik Bärtsch’s Seven Eleven (2020) and Shelley Washington’s Sunday (2022).
With MINIMAL, Les Percussions de Strasbourg wish to bring their own interpretation of minimalism, introducing their own sound identity and taste for experimentation. They place their trust in the ears and sensibility of Vincent Peirani, who will be responsible for the artistic direction of the record.
LAB WITH MATCHUME ZANGO
As part of an exchange with Mozambique and in partnership with the Milano Musica festival, Les Percussions de Strasbourg welcomed Matchume Zango in Strasbourg. Percussionist and composer Matchume Zango is specialized in the Timbila, the instrument of Mozambique, where he is originally from. Listed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO, this instrument accompanies the musical and dance tradition of the Chopi culture. Today threatened with extinction due to a lack of transmission of manufacturing savoir-faire, Matchume Zango is preserving this technical and artistic savoir-faire by sharing it, notably with musicians from Percussions de Strasbourg, for a future collaboration. Stay tuned!
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
© Axel Desouche
– Film-concert
La Mini Fête Sauvage
On Tuesday December 3rd at the Théâtre de Hautepierre, pupils from the Rosa Parks elementary school took to the stage with two musicians from the Percussions de Strasbourg.
Following on from the film-concert La Fête Sauvage presented at the Théâtre de Hautepierre on November 14, the Percussions de Strasbourg invited two classes of CM2 pupils to create the music and sound effects in real time for three short animated films directed by Félix Colgrave. The pupils were given 3 sessions in the instrumentarium to work on and prepare this film-musical performance. To round off the event, the Mineral Square group, made up of Théo His-Mahier and Enrico Pedicone, members of Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and Raffaele Renne and Guido Pedicone, gave an educational hard rock – stoner concert!
– Percussion workshop Percustra – Saison 2025
Percustra’s weekly workshops are open to all, with no prerequisites, and start on January 20th, 2025!
They provide an opportunity to discover percussion and contemporary music through a collaborative educational approach. This year, Les Percussions de Strasbourg are putting together a giant karaoke! The participants will be imagining the musical contours of the karaoke, alongside the Pelicanto and HTP Chante choirs. The final concert will be a big party on the forecourt of the Théâtre de Hautepierre on 5th June 2025. The Tuesday evening workshops for adults are fully booked, but there’s still room in the 10-18 age group!
Youth workshops / places still available ⚠️
Monday evenings, 10 to 18 years old, beginners or amateurs, no musical pre-requisites, in French.
Find the calendar on the Percussions de Strasbourg website (+)
Further information from Lucie Andrès
+33 (0)3 88 27 75 04 /
rp[@]percussionsdestrasbourg.com
CONCERT
POETICA
Chaya Czernowin
25th March 2025
Festival MaerzMusik, Berlin (DE)
Steven Schick, percussion and voice
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Catinblack (on recording)
Chaya Czernowin, Carlo Laurenzi, electronics Ircam
Jérémie Bourgogne, sound diffusion Ircam
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↑ Recorded from the Ircam Projection Space, on Wednesday 12 June 2024. Duration of the concert: approximately 55mn. Concert in binaural, equip yourself with headphones for an optimal experience! 🎧
Commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Hellerau European Centre for the Arts, Monday Evening Concerts, Brenda and Steven Schick, and Percussions de Strasbourg, French premiere.