Drumsolos & Groove Etudes
‘Drumsolo’ is one of the two original main ideas for the Percussive Piano project. I asked composers to accept this challenge to challenge me: ‘using a drumsolo from the pop/jazz-literature as a foundation, compose a piece for piano that still feels like a drumsolo’.
The result untill now:
Paul M. van Brugge – ‘Percussive Portraits’
Florian Magnus Maier – ‘Lilith & Samael’
Jesse Passenier – ‘Dom’s Drums’
Eduardo Rojo González – ‘Blues for Piano & Tape’
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‘Groove Etude’ – a piece that compositionally and technically explores the possibilities of groove within contemporary piano playing – is one of the two original main ideas for the Percussive Piano project. I asked composers to accept this challenge to challenge me with their groovy virtuoso piano pieces. The result untill now:
Michiel Mensingh – ‘F.U.B.A.R.’ (Funked Up Beyond All Recognition)
Leung Chi-hin – ‘The groove is in the groove’
Jelte Heringa – ‘Hittepetit’
Wilbert Bulsink – Groeven
and four great pieces to be premiered later:
Niels van der Weiden – Palito
Andreas Kunstein – Toccata nr. 2
Lars Skoglund – Labyrint II
Philemon Mukarno – Oxysin
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Oasis
A juxtaposition to Drumsolos and Groove Etudes in the Percussive Piano concerts are the Oasis-pieces.
I asked composers the following:
==Challenge: compose a piece that provides a feeling of intense happiness==
Tom Dicke – De klokken van Tintigny
Neus kaori – Kokuu no Hitofude (Brushstrokes in the vacuum)