Jean-Francois Charles

Keyboard Piece 1 is a composition for keyboard. Any keyboard. Piano, harpsichord, accordion, electric guitar, steel drums , tuned gongs, or more. The score indicates the notes and rhythm. Dynamics, articulation, and timbre are left up to the performer. Here is a synthesizer recorded version (hit play to listen.) The piece is in 3 parts, approximately: 1st minute: Kyrie 2nd minute: Christe 3rd minute: Kyrie Dedication and Inspiration This piece constitutes minutes 6, 7, and 8 of the 60/60 project. I am honored to dedicate this music to Bert Van Herck and Brigitte Urien . Bert Van Herck is a great Belgian composer. Listen to his recent piano composition Méandres on pianist Seda Röder's web site . When composing, I found inspiration in: Debussy's La Mer . Composer Magnus Lindberg revealed us a little secret: he always composes with the scores of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Debussy's La Mer on his desk. He is thus able to look for ideas inside...

Do you know the Wayback Machine ? It automatically archives the content of web sites. On the site, you can visit web sites as they were several years ago. I just discovered this service, and I had a look at the www.newflore.org archive . I founded the Ensemble New Flore in 2001, and we produced musical shows until 2005, when I moved to Cambridge, USA. With a great team of artists and technicians, we performed shows in France , Switzerland and Poland : 2001: Autour du Zodiaque 2002: Danse Orange 2003: Nowa muzyka 2003 - 2004: évolutive 1 2 3 2004: Spirales 2005: Lieu II It was a privilege to work with the following artists over these years: Jean-Luc Tartera and Maurice Gabioud (actors), Franck Cottet-Dumoulin and Jean-Daniel Hégé (double bass), Alice Gervais-Ragu (dance), Édith Le Rôle and Brenda Ohana (percussion), Elsa Biston (live electronics and sound diffusion), Paul Lienhard and Amandine Grevoz (highly competent technicians). So much fun Leading the Ensemb...

Since September 2007, I have been leading the Dudley House Jazz Bands at Harvard University. I am a so-called "Dudley Fellow", and my exciting job includes leading a full Big Band , taking care of a smaller and freer Improvisation Workshop, and organizing the concerts. You are invited to our winter concert: Wednesday, February 20th at Dudley House , 8:45 p.m. Free . Public rehearsal On December 12th, 2007, Nathan (bass) brought a recorder to the rehearsal. Hit the button "play" to hear Chant Bien Fatal by Maurice Merle . You are listening to: Michael Heller, alto sax Alan Lenarcic, tenor sax Jean-François Charles, contrabass clarinet Nathan Fosse, piano Nathan Haselby, upright bass Dan Jeffs, drums Program of the concert Big Band Egyptian ( Carla Bley ) All of Me (Simons & Marks) Hercab ( Gianluigi Trovesi , arrangement Corrado Guarino ) Choro Dançado ( Maria Schneider ) Combo Moving Parts (Ethan Fenn, world premiere) Improvisati...

Bleu 3 , my recent composition for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, will be premiered on Saturday, Feb. 9th. The concert takes place in Paine Hall, Harvard University Music Department , at 8 p.m. The great performers will be: Rane Moore, clarinet Gabby Diaz, violin Benjamin Schwartz, cello Yoko Hagino, piano Eric Hewitt, conductor New music This concert is organized by the Harvard Group for New Music . The program includes also new music by composers: Ashley Fure Ulrich Kreppein Matthew Mendez Dominique Schafer Bert Van Herck Tolga Yayalar Look inside the score! Have a look inside the score of Bleu 3 . It will be available for purchase very soon . The instrumentation is the same as Olivier Messiaen 's Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) , and you will find allusions to this piece in the score. If you can come to the concert, make sure we talk together during the after-concert reception!