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First name: Jean-Luc
Last name: Fafchamps
Dates: 1960
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Belgian
Opus name: Nuages vus du ciel (2009) for string trio and keyboard
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.compositeurs.be/en/compositeurs/jean-luc_fafchamps/36/
Information: He teached piano, chamber music and composition. He teaches musical analysis at the Mons Conservatory. First designed for theater and dance his compositions gradually shifted to pure music. He was hailed by the International Rostrum Composers of the Unesco (for Attrition for string octet) and earned him the Octave of Classical Music 2006. Ictus Ensemble, Music News, TM + Ensemble (Paris), Gageego (Sweden), Danel Quartet, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Calefax Reed Quintet, Champs d'Action, Spectra, played his music. Jean-Luc Fafchamps first devoted himself to writing for various groups in which the piano played a central role (Dynamiques, for two pianos; Melencholia si ..., for two pianos and two percussions ...) before his interest for non-tempered harmonies and polyphony of timbre does lead to other sound combinations (A garden, for wind quintet; Bryce, for clarinet ans string quartet; Les desordres de Herr Zebius, for string quartet). Since 2000, he is developing an extensive network of cycle - Sufi Letters - a kind of proclamation for writing and the use of open style as rhetoric and of analogical correspondences as a basis for systemic: S(in) for ensemble, K(AF) for orchestra, A(lif) for ensemble and orchestra, Z3 (Dhal) for trombone and electronics, L(am) for orchestra... His taste for the paradoxical constructions and his sense of synthesis thrive in parts that refer to one another. The last part of his triptych for piano Back to ... was written as compulseray work for the semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2010.