Baudouin De Jaer

Composer Aalst 1962

Baudouin de Jaer has initiated and co-produced artistic spaces open to all: Back To Normal, the Cirque des sons, the Maison de la création - Centre Culturel de Bruxelles Nord, the traveling space Orchestre d'un jour, and the production company NOODIK productions. Since 2018, he has been involved at 108 rue de Paris in the homework school of the Centre Culturel d’Evere, where artistic and gardening practices are as important as studies, as well as offering a number of cultural activities for adults of various nationalities to help them learn French through artistic work.

Music compositions for dance: Cie Kyung-a Ryu, Cie Pierre Droulers, and for Théâtre Groupof with Jacques Delcuvellerie.

His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as BESIDES, Arditti String Quartet, California Ear Unit, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Orchestre de Mulhouse, National Korean Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, and at contemporary music festivals such as ARS Musica Festival, Klara Festival, Kunst Festival des Arts, and festivals in Germany, Italy, France and South Korea.

Training mainly with Ph. Boesmans, F. Rzewski, H. Pousseur, G. List, and B. Mather

Compact-discs

2010 Décryptage des cryptogrammes d’Adolf Wölfli – CD The Heavelly Ladder /Sub Rosa

2012 Baudouin de Jaer Geomungo and Gayageum compositions VOL I /SUB ROSA

2013 CROCUS, Fabian Fiorini piano/ SUB ROSA

2015 double CD Lucy OPRL and Back To Normal June 91 / SUB ROSA

2016 KOBA quartet ( NOODIK)

2017 Baudouin de Jaer Geomungo compositions VOL II /SUB ROSA

Dernières compositions

2017

Ivresse de Lune, EMN, Pauline Claes Mezzo soprano, direction Jean-Paul Dessy

2018

Je suis la femme du soldat Shue Lee

for percussion, commissioned by Résonnance contemporaine de Bourg-en-Bresse

RUMORINATURA

for the DODEKA ensemble and as a soloist a nailed violin and a ironophone/ creation ARS Musica

2018

Baudouin de Jaer Geomungo compositions VOL III composition for next CD /SUB ROSA

Cities of diversities vversion for 8 female voices by the solo voices of Résonnance contemporaine de Bourg-en-bresse,

2019

Ce qui vit en nous ACTE III

by the chamber opera LA FORET LE DESERT L’ARGENT

opéra de chambre, libretto by Stéphane Arcas, ensemble BESIDES, direction Martijn Dendievel.

5 sanjos pour le Geomungo coréen

some of which are accompanied by Puk or Changgo percussion.

De l’autre côté du pont

for Gayaguem, Korean zither with 12 plucked strings

Language : French