In July, don’t miss our two concerts in Alsace: on 11 July in Strasbourg for a free concert open to all, and on 12 July at the Festival International de Colmar with a programme that will take you through the musical eras. In August, off to Saint-Céré for the film-concert La Fête Sauvage by Lucie Antunes and Frédéric Rossif.
June may not have been a sunny month, but it was nevertheless a warm one, with the Percustra workshop feedback concert and our 98 participants sharing the stage with the Percussions de Strasbourg and the Percussions de Treffort. June also saw the final of the Hautepierre middle school tournament, with musical games of our own devising, and, again in the spirit of sport, our ensemble’s support for our female football neighbours.
ON TOUR
XENAKIS and BACH at Cronenbourg
📅 Thursday 11th July, 4:30pm
📍 Cour de l’école Paul Langevin, Cronenbourg
🎫 Gratuit
Dans le cadre de l’ouverture estivale des cours d’école, nous nous produirons dans la cour de l’école Paul Langevin (Cronenbourg) jeudi 11 juillet. Le trio, composé de Minh-Tâm Nguyen, Alexandre Esperet et Thibaut Weber proposera un aller-retour musical dans le temps, mettant en regard des sonates de Jean-Sebastien Bach, des œuvres de Iannis Xenakis et de Chick Corea. Le concert est pensé pour petit·es et grand·es pour découvrir l’univers de la percussion classique et contemporaine.
Programme
Rebond B – Iannis XENAKIS
Okho – Iannis XENAKIS
Sonates en trio n°3 BWV 527 et n°6 BWV 530 – Jean-Sébastien BACH
Armando’s Rhumba – Chick Corea
Durée du concert : 45′
Ce concert a lieu grâce au soutien du dispositif « Quartier d’été » de l’ANCT qui propose toute la saison des actions en direction des habitant·es de QPV.
ON TOUR
OKHO et INVARIANTS
📅 Friday 12th July
📍 Festival International de Colmar, St Matthieu Church
🎫 Info and booking
Invited for the first time to the Colmar International Festival, the Percussions de Strasbourg will be making the vaults of Saint-Matthieu resound for a concert that’s a must-see!
On the programme: a trio of musicians playing percussion keyboards. Interspersed between three Sonatas in trio for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, Rain Tree by Tōru Takemitsu and Les Invariants by Michaël Levinas take the works of the German composer back in time.
Centuries after their compositions, these sonatas continue to adapt to their time without losing their essence, and the presence of works from our own time reminds us that Johann Sebastian Bach is still very much with us today.
Not forgetting the unmissable Psappha and Rebonds by Xenakis, the signature composer of Les Percussions, among others!
Four centuries of rhythmic research!
Programme
Trio No. 6 en sol majeur BWV 53 – Jean-Sébastien BACH
Okho – Iannis XENAKIS
Les Invariants – Michaël LEVINAS
Psappha – Iannis XENAKIS
Trio No. 3 en ré mineur BWV 527 – Jean-Sébastien BACH
Rebonds A – Iannis XENAKIS
Rebonds B – Iannis XENAKIS
Rain Tree – Tōru TAKEMITSU
ON TOUR
LA FÊTE SAUVAGE, ciné-concert
Lucie Antunes, Frédéric Rossif
📅 Saturday 3rd August
📍 Festival de Saint-Céré, Théâtre de l’Usine
🎫 Info and booking
To breathe new life into this visual masterpiece, Lucie Antunes brings all the telluric energy that characterises her musical language, with percussion and electronic music, and restores to the nature depicted in the film all its power and raw strength as much as its purity.
THROWBACK ON JUNE IN HAUTEPIERRE
PERCUSTRA
La Muraille, Les Percussions de Strasbourg & Les Percussions de Treffort
Thursday 6th June 2024 at the Théâtre de Hautepierre
The 6 Percustra groups performed the pieces they had created together during the workshops held over the course of the school year, around a single major piece: La Muraille, alongside professional musicians from Percussions de Strasbourg and Percussions de Treffort, an ensemble that brings together disabled and able-bodied musicians.
EAR OLYMPICS
between Erasme and Truffaut secondary schools,
Thursday 6 June at the Théâtre de Hautepierre
The students competed in musical games, with the Percussions de Strasbourg as referees and ringleaders, at the Théâtre de Hautepierre. Congratulations to 4th 7 from Truffaut College on their victory in this 2024 edition!
FOOT & PERCUSSION
Les Percussions de Strasbourg have become sponsors of the women’s football team from the AJF club in Hautepierre. After coming on tour with us for a date organised by the Musica festival at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes in April, the links between the two teams are growing stronger! The next event in this new friendship will be a (friendly) football match between these talented female footballers and our percussionists.
Congrats to the UE15 and UE13, who are champions this season!