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R E S H A P I N G T H E G E N R E LISTEN & WATCH
R E V I E WS & AC H I E V E M E N T S
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC
D I S C OV E R O U R E XC I T I N G P L A N S!
BE PART OF OUR WORLD CLASS TRIO
GOEYVAERTSSTRING TRIO
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C R E D IT SPieter Stas ARTISTIC DIRECTORSara Lambrecht BUSINESS COORDINATION
Pieter Stas CELLOKris Matthynssens VIOLAKristien Roels VIOLIN
Hans Morren PHOTOGRAPHY
With special thanks to Lieven Lambrecht & Line Broeckx
WWW.STRINGTRIO.NET
GOEYVAERTSSTRING TRIO
http://www.stringtrio.net
4 VISION
6 ABOUT
10 WHERE WE LEFT
OUR TRACKS
12 LISTEN
& WATCH
16 REVIEWS
18 ACHIEVEMENTS
2 0 EXCITING PLANS
23 QUOTATIONS
24 BE PART OF OUR
WORLD CLASS TRIO
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VISION
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VISIONARY & DISTINCTIVE
CHALLENGING & INNOVATIVE
MESMERIZES ITS AUDIENCES
EXPERIENCES BEYOND
LISTENING
VOICING EACH COMPOSER’S
IDENTITY
UNPREJUDICED APPROACH TO
EACH NEW SCORE
ENHANCING THE COMPOSER'S VOICE TO THE
MA X
BRINGS THE SOUND WORLD
OF EACH DISTINGUISHED COMPOSER TO
LIFE
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MO
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EN
ABOUT GOEYVAERTS STRING TRIO
HOW WE OPERATE
First and foremost, the Goeyvaerts String Trio is just that- a trio. However, it does not limit itself to any imposed limitations.The composition and the magnitude of the ensemble changes to benefit each pro-gram or project. The artistic organization of the string trio is done by a hard core team of musicians. The cellist Pieter Stas, assisted by the violist Kris Matthynssens, bring their inspired artisticplans to life by digging in archives, dis-cussing with scholars, foraging libraries and intensively studying scores.
For each subject or project, they meticu-lously decide who would be fit to collabo-rate with and who should shine on stage with them.
Pieter and Kris play a major role in the business organisation of the String Trio as well. As a non government-funded foundation trying to survive the current climate, each member of the trio takes on multiple tasks. In addition, they are supported by Sara Lambrecht, an experienced music business professional, who takes on artistic planning tasks remotely.
The Goeyvaerts String Trio is known for sailing its steady yet innovative course. Their commitment to their artistic vision has brought them a world class, high quality reputation
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GOEYVAERTS?You could say that Goeyvaerts (1923-1993) was a real pain in the ass for musicologists. To begin with because of his versatility. And also his musical-artistic and personal evolution. Karlheinz Stockhausen said about him that as one of the fathers of serialism, he was setting an example for others. But Goeyvaerts was more than that.
He spent a lifetime exploring music, as a man who was not shy of any dogma or other so-called truths or certainties. He tried out all new developments - if he had not developed them himself - with works that made use of tape, aleatoricism and jazz and pop music influences. Although Goeyvaerts’ music is eccentric, it’s functional and reasoned, and it is so much more than the simple use of effects.
The Goeyvaerts String Trio wishes to honor one of Belgium’s greatest composers. This is done not only by wearing his name but also by a similar mindset whereby each piece is looked at as an autonomous work. Dogma’s freeze and, security is always questioned.
HOW WE CAME TO BE
Over a century ago, Schönberg served anelectroshock to classical music with hisdodecaphony (or twelve-tone technique). The worn habits and rules about harmony - like the doctrine of the classic European canon - were dumped into the trash can. Instead, there was room for experiment and adventure alongside control and ratio. Like Schönberg, his student Anton Webern saw the string trio as the genre in which he could let off some steam. Three voices could clash, grind and crush and then follow their own path. But even after dodecaphony reshaped music composing, there were still composers who specifically wrote for the string trio. The string trio as a genre or a piece of music is not loaded with a heavytradition, therefore encouraging free thinking. For composers like Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg,La Monte Young, and Alfred Schnittke, the string trio guarantees experimentation. Composing string trios did not only mean a break in their own style but alsosetting a new landmark in music history.
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“Short playing time — 47 minutes —
but intense music-making.” MICHAEL DERVAN, IRISH TIMES
“The Goeyvaerts String Trio’s overall characteristics as performers
come clearly into focus: precise, unsentimental, challenging, self-
denying, controlled and fascinating.” INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
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LINCOLN CENTER NY
CONCERT- GEBOUW
AMSTERDAM
The Royal Concert-gebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam,
Netherlands.CONCERTGEBOUW.NL
BOZ AR
BRUSSELS
The Paleis voor Schone Kunsten or Palais des Beaux-Arts is a cultural
venue in Brussels, Belgium. BOZAR.BE
5 YE AR RESIDENCE
@ KMSK A
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is a museum in Belgium. It houses a collection of paintings, sculptures
and drawings from the fourteenth to the twenti-
eth centuries.KMSKA.BE
WHERE WE LEFT OUR TRACKS
http://concertgebouw.nlhttp://bozar.behttp://kmska.be
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KMSK A &
BOZAR
BRISTOL SAINT
GEORGEPHILHARMONIA
MOSCOW
SINT-PETERSBURG
TALINN
CONCERTGEBOUW AMSTERDAM
&MUZIEKGEBOUW
A AN HET IJ
MUZIEK- GEBOUW
A AN HET IJ
Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ is the main concert hall for contemporary
classical music on the IJ
in Amsterdam, Neth-erlands.
MUZIEKGEBOUW.NL
BRISTOL
SAINT GEORGE
St George’s Bristol is a concert hall in
the centre of Bristol, England. It hosts a
year-round programme of music including
classical, folk, world and jazz.
STGEORGES BRISTOL.CO.UK
LINCOLN
CENTER NY
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre complex of
buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Man-hattan in New York City.
LINCOLNCENTER.ORG
BRNO
http://muziekgebouw.nlhttp://bristol.co.ukhttp://lincolncenter.org
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LISTEN & WATCH
https://youtu.be/6dnzIE_SEukhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrJ_nO3ctF8
W W W.STRINGTRIO.NET/VIDEO/
http://www.stringtrio.net/videohttps://youtu.be/6ok2t5LlslIhttps://youtu.be/62m4JL0doks
https://youtu.be/jlD1wIUr70whttps://www.youtube.com/embed/Q_tDN8KYQlg
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The Goeyvaerts trio dismantles all your prejudices about contemporary classical
music with every note they play. For whoever thinks that Contemporary Classical music is
not accessible, I advise you: Listen to this trio and let them bewilder you!
JOHAN BRAECKMAN, PROF. PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY GENT
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R E V I E W S TR I N G TR I OS
Gramophone RecommendsKlara (best cd) award-nomina-tion 2010 Klassiek Centraal Golden Label
LUISTER ENSEMBLE PIZZICATO KLASSIK.COM NEUE MUSIK ZEITSCHRIFT
R E V I E W S TR I N G TR I OS F R O M TH E E A S T
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW"The Goeyvaerts String Trio's overall characteristics as perform-ers come clearly into focus: pre-cise, unsentimental, challenging, self-denying, controlled and fasci-nating."
REVIEWS
http://Klassik.com
R E V I E W S TA BAT M ATE R
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
“The performers crafted an inter-pretation of mesmerizing intensity.” AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
“This is a wonderful performance and recording. Listeners who connect with the somberness and spirituality of Pärt will feel right at home. Highly recommended!” QUADREVISIE.NL“Concerning the Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt, this version claims the title…” LUISTER (AWARD: LUISTER 10)“The extreme precision and purity of this rendition is a real revelation.”
R E V I E W W H I S P E R S O F T ITA N S
TOM JANSSENS, DE STANDAARD“[...] On the armoured harmony’s, the players have put a fascinating stain. that makes the music move to noise. [...]”
JOEP STAPEL, NRC“The excellent Goeyvaerts Trio takes a brave choice with this intense performed repertoire.”
GAVIN DIXON ON CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS“A typically adventurous project then from the Goeyvaerts String Trio, and one that gives welcome exposure, and excellent perfor-mances, to two challenging but unjustly neglected works.”
RE AD MORE ONLINERE AD MORE ONLINE
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AWA R D S
EDISON KLASSIEK – CHAMBER MUSIC 2014
RADIO KLARA – ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR 2015
CULTUURPRIJS 2015 – STAD SINT-NIKLAAS
FUGA TROFEE (2003) – SABAM
K I C K S TA R TE R C R O W D F U N D I N G C A M PA I G N 2 013
In 2013 the Goeyvaerts Trio successfully launched a Kickstarter campaign together with Challenge Records
to finance the recording of the Stabat Mater album. With-in a very short timeframe, the campaign was picked up
worldwide and gathered almost 150% of their target. This crowdfunding resulted in the internationally acclaimed re-
cording in ‘just intonation’ of the Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt.
WWW.KICKSTARTER.COM/PROJECTS/ CHALLENGERECORDS/STHASH.DFFXSLJS.DPUF
A S E LE C T I O N O F TH E R E V I E W S
O N S TA BAT M ATE R ( 2 014 )
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE
LUISTER 10
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
CHOIR & ORGAN
PIZZICATO
ACHIEVEMENTS
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projectshttp://sthash.dffXSLJS.dpuf
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“My musical development took a course similar to that of some friends and colleagues, across piano concerto romanticism, neoclassic
academicism, and attempts at eclectic synthesis... , and took cognizance also of the unavoidable proofs of masculinity in serial
self-denial. Having arrived at the final station, I decided to get off the already overcrowded train.
Since then I have tried to proceed on foot.”ALFRED SCHNITTKE ON THE COMPOSITIONS OF HIS “SERIAL-PERIOD”
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC,
AN ERA OF EXPERIMENT AND COURAGE
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INVITATION TO TAL-LINN BY THE ARVO
PÄRT CENTER
This september 2017, the String trio has been per-sonally invited by Tonu
Kaljuste to join the annu-al Pärt festival in Tallinn.
They will perform their internationally acclaimed
program Stabat Mater. Not only did the Pärt family openly praised the re-
cording of this interesting piece, but recently the son of Arvo Pärt - Michael Pärt - attended the concert of the same program. This
concert was organised as part of the conference con-cerning the sacred music of the composer Arvo Pärt Sounding the Sacred by
the Lincoln Center in New York. Michael Pärt met
with the musicians after-
wards to express his grat-itude and praise for their
performance of his father’s composition. When in
Tallinn, the Goeyvaerts Trio will meet up with the Pärt family again and discuss possible future collabora-
tions.
A NEW PROGRAM & COMMISSIONED
WORK BY WUORINEN I.A.W. GUGGENHEIM NYThe established and
worldly renowned Gug-genheim Museum in New York has commissioned the Pulitzer prizewinning
American contempo-rary classical composer
Charles Wuorinen to compose a second String Trio to celebrate his own
80th birthday with the Goeyvaerts String Trio as
performers in mind. Wu-orinens first string trio was written in 1968 and pre-miered with a dance per-formance. The 28th/29th
of October 2018, this new commissioned work will premiere at the Guggen-heim Museum New York,
together with the first string trio, both performed
by the Goeyvaerts Trio accompanied by a con-
temporary dance ensem-ble. Later that season, the program will travel around other renowned venues across US and Europe.
This collaboration came to a start when the trio re-
ceived the following email in 2010: “Dear Goeyvaerts
String Trio, Wanted you to know Wuorinen was
very impressed with your Schoenberg CD. I write to draw your attention to the music of American com-poser CHARLES WUO-RINEN, and in particular
to his (amazing) STRING-TRIO – a major addition to the repertoire....” This short and modest message was the start of a correspond-ence with Howard Stoker,
EXCITING PLANS
live partner and manager of Charles Wuorinen. In july 2016, the following mes-sage came: “Dear Pieter, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum NY do want to be part of the
commission....” A short and powerful message became
a long conversation re-sulting in a meeting in NY and the realisation of this unique opportunity for the String Trio: a creation in
2018 of a new work by one the most important Ameri-can post-war composers.
CROSSOVER COLLABORATION
WITH ROBIN VERHEYEN, MARC CO-PLAND & THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM LOS
ANGELESHaving been selected both
as artist in residence for the reopening of the Konin-klijk Museum voor Schone
Kunsten (Museum for Fine Art) in Antwerp, only speeded up the process
of a collaboration. For the last couple of years, both Robin Verheyen and the
Goeyvaerts Trio have been flirting with the idea of a profound collaboration.
But it was only after Robin played at the trio’s Festival Passages, and their mutual selection of the KMSKA in Antwerp, that this collab-oration took on concrete forms. At 33, Robin Ver-heyen is considered one of the top European jazz
saxophone players. Having established himself since 2007 in NYC he quickly build a reputation there
and has worked with such jazz heavyweights as Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Ralph Alessi, Bill Carroth-ers, Drew Gress and many others. His latest release ‘A Look Beyond’ with his NY quartet was received with critical acclaim and
he was awarded a grant by Chamber Music America to write new music for this group. The result of the collaboration between
Robin Verheyen, Marc Co-pland and the Goeyvaerts Trio will premiere in the
KMSKA before travelling to the Getty Museum LA. Conversations to schedule these performances are in
an advanced stage.
PASSAGES FESTIVAL V
Each year in February, the Goeyvaerts Trio organises
their own cutting edge festival. Taking place in their home town of Sint-
Niklaas, the festival hous-es in the unconventional
location of the SteM. 2018 will mark their 5th
edition. High expectations have already been raised
as previous editions always sell out weeks before the event. The edition of 2018 will host the ancient music of Cappella Mariana (CZ) with their Songs of Love, the new jazz album of Su-sanne Abbuehl (CH) and vocal work of mezzo-so-
prano Mireille Capelle. Of course the Goeyvaerts String trio will perform a new piece, always chal-lenging and inspiring the audiences to reconsider
their views on the live consummation of classical
music. With its varying programming of each edi-tion, the trio has grown an established audience for the Passages Festival.
PROJECT “SLOW” IN COLLABORATION
WITH CONCERT-
GEBOUW BRUGGEFor the festival SLOW,
organised by the Concert-gebouw Brugge, a newly commissioned work will
be composed by Jürg Frey for the Goeyvaerts String Trio. This work will be part of a performance in which
experience and inspira-tion will be a central focus point. The audience will be challenged to localise the sound, discover the music and use all of their senses during the performance. The piece, as well as the
performance, will be more than music. It will include an installation and the use of electronic equipment to enhance the experience.
The composer will include these electronic aspect in this newly composed
piece for the trio.
SPIRITUAL LAB: THE GOEYVAERTS STRING TRIO & ZSUZSI TÓTHThe composer as a me-dium. Giacinto Scelsi
and Hildegarde Van Bin-gen in a confrontation.
A soundscape of higher atmospheres, visions and
higher dimensions. Gi-acinto Scelsi achieves the highest form of intimacy in his written pieces for
strings. “Elegia per Ty”, is commemorated to his -to young- deceased wife; it is one of his most abiding
works. He himself de-scribes it as a research
to a third dimension in the sound, an invisible dimen-
sion, as invisible as the visions Hildegarde Van Bingen had. Her music attempts to give a voice to this ecstatic intimacy. Is sound much more sig-nificant and expressive
than words or images? Of Scelsi, there are hardly
any images that survived time? Is he the Banksy of the classical music? The Goeyvaerts String Trio
researched the roots of this invisable man in the
Fondazione Scelsi in Rome. Zsuzsi Toth dove
into the musical testament Hildegarde Van Bingen.Works: Giacinto Scelsi:
String Trio | Elegia per Ty / Hildegarde Von Bingen
THE GOEYVAERTS STRING TRIO & ALFA-MA QUARTET: VER-
KLÄRTE NACHT A synthesis of late-roman-tic music in one concert:
• Verklärte Nacht for sextet - Schönberg
• Five movements for string quartet Opus 5 - Webern
• String Trio Opus 45 - Schönberg
• Langsamer Satz for string quartet - Webern
This program shows that dodecaphonic music was
born from the hyper-roman-tic idiom and strives for
absolute expression.
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QUOTATIONS
ARVO PÄRTS WHITE LIGHT
Laura Dolp, Cambridge University Press
HET BOEK VAN SINT-NIKLAAS
Johan Devos
EEN SUBLIEME MISLUKKINGDaan Anders
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