Kaat De Windt

DE WINDT Kaat

Studies at the Brussels Royal Conservatory with A. De Groote, D. Blumenthal and E. Kornizewska: First Prize for piano.

Diploma in pedagogy, vocal accompaniment and music history (1989).

1987-1988: Master's degree in piano :

at Georges Deppe's in Grez-Doiceau;

at Konstantin Bogino's Summer Academy in Portogruaro, Italy.

1990: with Edward Mirzoyan in Strasbourg, France.

2003-2015: Training, coaching, consulting:

at George Alexander Van Dam: composition for string instruments

at Johan Bossers: coaching piano compositions.

at Dominique Vantomme: Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes

with Denis Orloff: rhythmic pedagogy

2015-2016: training music programs: Sibelius, Ableton Live

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1985-1988:

Musical theater projects at NTG (1986-87 Ghent) and KVS (1988 Brussels), productions by J.P. De Decker, L. Perceval and J. Blaute.

Walter Verdin's music-video project "Somewhere else in the meantime", Kaaitheater production, Brussels May 1985.

Pianist with B.J. Scott (blues rock), Jerry Casarocca (cabaret).

After 1988: Duo with Marianne Pousseur (soprano), concerts in Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Repertoire oriented towards 20th-century music. Recordings for film productions: "Ensor" with music by Denis Pousseur and prologue for Arnold Schönberg's "Pïerrot Lunaire" (two RTBf productions), CD recording with songs by Hans Eisler (1992, Subrosa production).

Member of the Bureau des Pianistes (1991-1993) with concerts including: Le Botanique, Brussels 1991-1992 (works by W. Hus, M. Feldman for 4 piano's, pieces for four hands by J. Brahms, L.V. Beethoven, R.L. Schumann, C. Debussy, M. Ravel, F. Poulenc etc./ BRT,Brussels May 1991, as part of Ars Musica (Feldman's complete works)/ Théâtre Banlieu, Brussels Dec.1991(pieces for 2 pianos by

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Messiaen, Boesmans) / De Singel, Antwerp Jan. 1992 (pieces by Hus; Schnitke, Dalapiccola, Fafchamps for 1 or more pianos) / Chapelle des Brigittines, Brussels Sept. 1992, pieces by Messiaen, Fafchamps) / CC. Strombeek Feb. 1993 (duo creation by K. De Windt) / Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi March 1993 (pieces for 2 pianos in quarter-tone by Wydznegradski). Recordings, June 1991: works by Morton Feldman for one or more pianos -Subrosa/ Sept. 1992: Quartet for two pianos by J.L. Fafchamps -Subrosa production.

Collaboration on "Trititia" by Karin Vyncke with music by Jan Kuyken, BRT production, awarded the 1st SACD prize for best dance music composition (June 1992).

Collaboration on "Jamais de l'abîme" by Pierre Droulers, music by Baudouin de Jaer, Oct. 1992.

Musical advice for Walter Verdin's video production "Steve Praxton, Goldberg Variations by JS. Bach/Glenn Gould" (1992).

Foundation of the non-profit organization 'La Dea': musical theater with Simonne Moesen and Charo Calvo (1994)

Tour with the musical theater production "A ceux qui naîtront après nous", directed by Isabelle Pousseur (1994-1995, produced by Atelier St Anne and Océan Nord).

Formation of the sextet for White Wine,Dark Grapes: Isnel da Silveira, vocals, Jan Rzewski, soprano sax, Véronique Delmelle, alto sax and baritone, Michel Hatzigeorgiou, bass, Jean Kowalski, drums, Kaat De Windt, piano and composition (1995).

Musical advice for the animated film "Casta Diva" by Sabine Vanderlinden. Poduction Soil (1995).

Pianist at Univers Zero for Montreal tour (1996).

Collaboration on the "Sindsdien val ik" project with music by Luk Mishalle (May 1998, as part of the Geluid Vooruit Festival)

Pianist with Ice Cream Solution, compositions by Jan Rzewski (1999-2001)

Recording and release of the "White Wine Dark Grapes" CD on Needrecords - EMI (1999-2001)

Concert tour with White Wine Dark Grapes in Nigeria for the Belgian Embassy (cultural exchange project between Belgium and Nigeria, November 2001.

Solo, duo and trio concerts with Nicolas Ankoudinoff (sax), George Alexander Van Dam (violin) and Michael Weilacher (percussion). Own compositions and improvisations (2001-2002)

Collaboration on music-video project by Walter Verdin, Nadine VZW, Brussels August 2002

Project - direction, composition and musical direction of "Waves"; musical theater project for 4 singers/actresses and instrumental ensemble. Produced by "La Dea", co-produced by Les Brigittines, Brussels, Vooruit, Ghent. Premiere: March 2004

Collaboration on Walter Verdin's musical video project: "Woman and Airplanes". Brussels, May 2005. Solo piano improvisations.

Musical dramaturgy and assistant for the production "VSPRS" by Alain Platel to music by Fabrizio Cassol (adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi's "Vêtpres"). Premiere: March 2006, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.

Pianist for the theatre production "Oom Toon", directed by Rieks Swarte, KVS 2007. Works for 2 pianos, harmonium, piano. Transcription for 2 pianos of an orchestral composition by Karel Albert, "Tijl" (1925).

Musical dramaturge, assistant and rehearsal director for "Pitié", a dance-music production by Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol (arrangement of Bach's St Matthew Passion). Premiere in Bochum, Germany, Sept. 2008.

Tilte Safe" DVD recordings: produced by Walter Verdin.

Improvisations for solo piano and duo with George Alexander Van Dam. Release and performance in November 2007 at Ancienne Belgique and Beursschouwburg, Brussels.

Rehearsals and try-outs for a music-theater project "Est" by Eugène Savitskaya. In collaboration with Hélène Mathon and Cédric Lebeuf. Paris, November 2008.

Feb-June 2009: concerts with new pieces for solo piano in combination with works by Bach, Scarlatti, Satie, Debussy, Rzewski, Cowell.

Duo concerts with singer Jeanna Celesta: songs (blues, pop).

Dance-piano solo duet with Rosalba Torres (dancer with Rosas, Alain Platel) for STAN's 20th anniversary celebration: October 2009.Kaaitheater. Own composition.

"Tanto Amore Segreto project with music by J. Puccini (operas) and personal compositions and arrangements. Artistic director: Simonne Moesen, Walpurgis production. Phase 1. Feniksfestival May 2010.

Collaboration on "Barakstad", KVS production, stage management by Guy Dermul. Musical direction and creation for the show. With an arrangement of the string quartet "insence" (K. De Windt) performed by the Ictus Quartet. January 2011.

"Tanto Amore Segreto" phases 2 and 3: Feniksfestival 2011 and Flanders Festival "Odegand", NTG Gent Sept 2011

"Skieven", KVS production, Guy Dermul stage manager. Music for Hammond organ. Premiere in October 2012.

In 2013: composition and musical direction for the dance film "klokkenluider", choreographed by Annelore Baeckeland and Karin Vyncke. Produced by Beeldenstorm Anderlecht. Etienne Plumer : percussion, Mirko Banovic :bass, Jeroen Robbrecht, Pieter Jansen, Romek Maniewski (strings). Angélique Wilkie, Isnelle Da Silveira: vocals

Musical composition and direction for "Mest/Hunger for trade": KVS production. Directed by Guy Dermul. Premiere: 2014. Composition for 2 voices and fender rhodes. With Lucy Grauman, Reena Riot, voices. Kaat De Windt : fender rodhes, piano.

From 2012 to 2016: tour in Belgium and France (ea Aix en Provence, Lyon, Marseille )of the Puccini project

Febr 2015: musical direction and arrangement for large choir and orchestra of the Senegalese song "Tajabone" for Hart Boven Hard's big parade. Project with "la voix des sans papiers", Brussels.

May 2015: duo concert with Nicolas Ankoudinoff (Animus Anima) with our own compositions.

2015-2016: composition, artistic direction and creation of the group "princess4president", contemporary jazz with Naomi Sijmons, Annelies Van Dinter (vocals) Mirko Banovic (bass), Etienne Plumer (drums) , Kaat De Windt (keyboards, compo).

Since 2015, pianist in the band around singer, guitarist Abou Sy, : compositions, arrangements of songs, traditional West African music.

2016: composition and musical direction of youth opera: "it's Frankenstein , stupid!" Produced by La Monnaie, Bronks, QO2.

2016-2017: princess4preident: concerts at Nona, Mechelen, Handelsbeurs, Ghent, Maison de la Création, Plazey, Brussels.

2018-2019: composition and artistic direction of the "5 blokken" project (working title) with Raf Custers, Sybille Cornet and the Brecht Eisler Choir.

2019-2021: composition, arrangements and production CD princess4president.

Concert live stream @Wildernis/ CC. Strombeek

2021: release of the album princess4president + concert @De Bijloke Ghent

Compositions

"Tangosuite": composition for the vernissage of painter Djos Janssens. Piano trio, Cello and sound effects. Galerie Montecury, Paris 1990.

"For Alexander": composition for the vernissage of the painter Djos Janssens. Duo piano, violin, Windows, Brussels 1991

"La Primera": composition for dance workshop in collaboration with Charo Calvo. Pianosolo, Brussels, December 1991

"Kreuset": composition for choreography by Karin Vyncke in collaboration with Jan Kuyken. Pianosolo and duet for piano and cello, Brussels, November 1991. International tour 1992.

"Lugaros intermeios": composition for choreography by Olga Mesa in collaboration with Charo Calvo. Violin, cello and vocals. Madrid 1992

"L'arrivée de mon départ": composition for choreography by Enzo Pezzella. Brass, saxophone, bows and sound installation. Brussels, March 1993 + international tour.

"Duo": piece for two pianos, created by the pianists' bureau. CC Strombeek, February 1993

"Jan Zonder Vrees": composition for La Dea's musical theater project (in collaboration with Simone Moesen and Charo Calvo, prepared piano, 3 voices and computer manipulation. Antwerp 1994 (+ international tour)

"Could can be": composition for choreography by Karin Vyncke. Percussion, violin, saxophone (soprano, alto and baritone) and bass guitar. Ghent January 1995 (+ international tour)

"White Wine, Dark Grapes": composition commissioned by the Centre Vooruit for the Vooruit Geluid festival and Musiques Echanges (Montreal): voice, soprano, alto and baritone saxophones, percussion and bass guitar, Montreal, February-May 1996 (international tour 1997-1998-2000).

"Venus et Mars": composition of the soundtrack, second creation by La Dea Brussels, May 1996, Kunstenfestival des Arts

"Te foras": composition for choreography by Fernando Martin Lopez and Monica Marti. Cello and soundtrack. Brussels, September 1996 (+ international tour).

"Pero que dice, Tolgaz": composition for choreography by F.M. Lopez. Cello and hobo in collaboration with Michel Boulanger and Rafaël Palacios, Brussels, August 1997 (+ international tour)

Bij Franz" ("Tuesday morning" in Oorsmeer): Composition for the Oorsmeer Festival, Vooruit, Ghent: Sextet Violin, flute, bass clarinet, percussion. Performed by the Spectra ensemble. Ghent, November 1997.

"Grossstadtzigeuner": commissioned by the Brussels Philharmonic Society. Composition for silent film. Octette: 2 clarinets, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, piano and percussion. Performed by Ensemble Ictus, Théâtre Luna, Brussels April 1998.

"Dos Marineros, Thamar y Amnon, Casida de la Rosa": composition commissioned by ensemble QO2. Poems by Garcia Lorca, voice, violin, viola, piano and percussion. Kortrijk, November 1998

"In Bilico": composition for choreography by Enzo Pezzella. Horn, electric guitar and accordion. Brussels, February 1999.

"White Wine Dark Grapes": new compositions for the White Whine Dark Grapes sextet for their tour of Nigeria.

Composition for the Grimbergen carillon as part of Grimbergen 2002.

"Ebe": Music for string trio and oboe. Commissioned by Ensemble ICTUS. The premiere will take place in 2003.

"Waves": musical theater composition for 4 voices, electric guitar, piano, percussion and live electronics. Based on Sumerian texts evoking

the goddess Inanna. Production La Dea, coproduction: les Brigittines, Vooruit, March 2004. With Simonne Moesen, Angélique Wilkie, Cécilia Kankonda (vocals),

Charo Calvo (live electronics), Jean-Yves Evrard, Eric Thilemans/Michael Weilacher and Kaat De Windt.

"Insist": composition for the Boenox ensemble (oboe, cello, bassoon and double bass) for the "Festival van Vlaanderen". Mechelen, October 2004.

Insence (and out): composition for the Quatuor Minguet (Cologne), Bijloke, Ghent, ''s Hertogenbosch, Holland, commissioned for the "November Music" festival, November 2006.

Transcription of "Tijl", music for theater by Karel Albert (1925) for 2 pianos. Arrangements and compositions for the "Oom Toon" production, directed by Rieks Swarte. KVS 2007

Songs for Jeanna (pop): with texts by Katheen Raine, Anna Akhmatova (2008-2009).

Piano solo ( draaiorgelpunt 2): compositions for piano solo. ea concert at Vooruit, Ghent. Preview of Bender Banjax 2009

"Draaiorgelpunt": composition for lyric voice and piano. With Monica Brett Crowther (mezzo soprano), Kaat De Windt (piano). febr 2010

"Barakstad" "Insence": string quartet arrangement and compositions for the music-theater production, directed by Guy Dermul. Performed by the Quatuor Ictus. KVS production, January 2011.

"Tanto Amore", music-theater. Project in collaboration with Simonne Moesen (actress, singer, director), composition-arrangement of opera fragments by J. Puccini. For voice, piano, organ, samples, percussion. (2010-2012). Production La Dea, Walpurgis.

"Skieven", KVS production, Guy Dermul stage manager. Music for Hammond organ. Premiere in October 2012.

Febr 2015: musical direction and arrangement for large choir and orchestra of the Senegalese song "Tajabone" for Hart Boven Hard's big parade. Project with "la voix des sans papiers", Brussels.

2016: composition and musical direction of youth opera: "it's Frankenstein , stupid!" Produced by La Monnaie, Bronks, QO2.

2017-2019: composition and artistic direction of the "5 blokken" project (working title) with Raf Custers, Sybille Cornet and the Brecht Eisler Choir

2018-2019: solo piano composition and songs; ikv commission for Noordrand Grimbergen.

2020-2021: composition, arrangements and production of CD princess4president.

Concert live stream @Wildernis/ CC. Strombeek

2021: release of the album princess4president + concert @De Bijloke Ghent

Teaching Since 1985:

Teacher of piano, solfeggio and ensemble playing at several academies in Brussels.

1988-89: Improvisation teacher for children at the Ottignies Academy

December 1991: Accompaniment of a dance workshop with Charo Calvo at the Yantra dance academy in Brussels.

1990-1993: Piano and ensemble playing teacher at the Grimbergen Academy.

1997: Operetta accompaniment as part of Insas courses, Brussels with François Beukelaers.

April - May 1998:

Composition workshop, Theâtre de la Bourse, Brussels.2001

Accompaniment of K. Weil's "Dreigroschenoper" at RITCS, Brussels.

Since 2003: creative piano workshop: project coach for 4 pianos, 4-8 pianists. Specific pedagogical projects for group lessons.

2007- 2010: music analysis teacher at PARTS, école supérieure de danse. Brussels

Since 2016: piano lessons at Blanches et Noires, St Gilles

Since 2020: teacher at the conservatory in the 'musical training' teaching section

Since 2022: piano teacher at the Sint Agatha Berchem Academy.

JURY

- for the Flanders - Quebec contemporary music prize in Ghent and Montreal (presidents: Jan Van Landeghem and Walter Boudreau) 2004 and 2005.

- For the "Vlaamse componisten" selections: president: Frederic Rzewski. 2007

- 2014-2016; for Chantal Levie's improvisation class

- 2017: for the classes of Denis Pousseur and Jean Luc Fafchamps at the Mons Conservatory, applied music.

DISCOGRAPHY

CD: Lieder by Hanns Eisler for voice and piano (Marianne Pousseur and Kaat De Windt) Subrosa -production Nov. '92.

CD: Works by Morton Feldman for one or more pianos ( Pianists' Bureau) Subrosa -production June '91.

CD: Quartet for 2 piano's by JL Fafchamps ( Bureau des pianistes) Subrosa-production sep. '92.

CD :" White Wine Dark Grapes"(sextet)/composition K . De Windt ( 2001) Needrecords -EMI

CD: "Vierkant Muziek "nieuwe muziek uit Vlaanderen: a selection by Peter Vermeersch.

DVD; "Title safe" Improvisations on images: videos by Walter Verdin.solo piano and piano/viola duo with George Alexander Van Dam.

CD: "Insence" String quartet, composition by Kaat De Windt. With the Ictus String Quartet . (2011)

DVD: "Klokkenluiders" music for dance. Choreography by Karin Vyncke. Composition: Kaat De Windt. Beeldenstorm production. 2016

Language : French