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artistic director christophe fellay [email protected] mobile +41 77 416 58 69
press relations susannah davies [email protected] mobile +41 79 375 80 77 www.christophefellay.com
Press release
Created by Christophe Fellay (CH)
with Ensemble Notes Inégales (UK)
album release and concerts
Swiss musician Christophe Fellay invites Peter Wiegold’s extraordinary London ensemble Notes
Inégales to perform his compositions and to intervene on his sound textures in a new project : IN
PETTO. In co-production with the London Jazz Festival, a series of new pieces where different
20th century currents mix together, from sound effects to improvisation and contemporary music
to sound art.
This encounter is giving rise to a series of concerts in England and Switzerland, as well as the release in limited edition of a vinyl record «IN PETTO», in conversation with the series of photographs
«URBAN SCENES» by Chris Morgan. «IN PETTO» will also be available for digital distribution.
IN PETTO in concert:
21 November 2015, 8pm, Club Inégales, London Jazz Festival, London (UK)
24 November 2015, 2pm, Cambridge University, Cambridge (UK)
26-27-28 November 2015, 9pm, Théâtre 2.21, Lausanne (CH) – launch of the album
29 November 2015, 5pm, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny (CH)
Concert line-up :
Martin Butler (piano, UK), Joel Bell (electric guitar, UK), Hyelim Kim (flutes, South Korea), Robin
Michael (cello, UK), Tom Kelly (tuba, UK), Christophe Fellay (drums / compositions, CH), Peter
Wiegold (keyboards / director, UK).
Christophe Fellay dedicates this project to double bass player Popol Lavanchy, mentor and
friend, who secretly glides (in petto) over Christophe’s compositions.
Links :
http://www.christophefellay.com
http://peterwiegold.com/
http://peterwiegold.com/notes-inegales/
http://www.chmorgan.com
artistic director christophe fellay [email protected] mobile +41 77 416 58 69
press relations susannah davies [email protected] mobile +41 79 375 80 77 www.christophefellay.com
Presentation & biographies
Christophe Fellay is a sound artist, musician, composer and performer. He lives in Switzerland.
He composes for string ensembles, string quartets, chamber orchestras, jazz ensembles and solo
instruments. He favours an interdisciplinary approach and takes part in sound installations and
performances. His artistic research has led him to be interested in acoustics, architecture and the
interaction between human beings and machines.
His compositions have been played in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Montreux, Copenhagen, Zürich,
Geneva, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Santa Fé, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and even Windhoek. He was artist-in-residence at The Red House in New York,
The Steim Institute in Amsterdam, at Swissnex and at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Christophe Fellay is a graduate of the Jazz Section of the Conservatoire de Montreux, and is currently working on a research doctorate in music and performance at London’s Brunel University.
He has been invited to give lectures and master classes at universities in London, Edinburgh and
Pretoria. He is head of the Sound Art Department of the Valais School of Art (ECAV), as well as
being responsible for the musical training of undergraduate dancers at the Conservatoire Cantonal
du Valais.
Peter Wiegold is one of the most innovative musicians working today. He is the director of Club
Inégales and the London Institute of Composing.
Peter Wiegold has worked with an array of ensembles, including London Sinfonietta, Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Endymion Ensemble and Southbank Sinfonia. He directed
the Composers Ensemble in a Proms Portrait of the music of Pierre Boulez in the presence of the
composer, and has also worked with them in Dartington, Brighton, Bath, Oxford, Darmstadt, Salzburg,
Holland and Macedonia. He also works internationally, having conducted Symphony Nova Scotia,
the Hourglass Ensemble in Canada, Joensuu Orchestra and Camerata Labacensis, Slovenia and
opening the Cologne Triennial Festival in 2007 with a performance of Berio Accordo, Peter’s recent
compositions include. He is armoured without for the BBC Proms (for 180 musicians including Uzbek
trumpeters and the Coldstream Guards), Bow-Wave for the National Youth Orchestra and The End
of the Line - an opera for 150 performers from the RNCM for Manchester Piccadilly Railway station.
artistic director christophe fellay [email protected] mobile +41 77 416 58 69
press relations susannah davies [email protected] mobile +41 79 375 80 77 www.christophefellay.com
Presentation & biographies
Ensemble Notes Inégales is one of the most innovative groups on the London music scene within
the realms of contemporary music, free improvisation and jazz. Christian Marclay’s “HOT – an
infernal cabaret” and “Shuffle” are among the various projects of the ensemble.
Musicians - Ensemble Notes Inégales (vinyl album)
Max Baillie violin/viola
Joel Bell electric guitar
Rowland Sutherland flutes
Christian Forshaw saxophones
Torbjorn Hultmark trumpet / electronics
Graham Lee trombone
Martin Butler piano
Ben Markland bass
Simon Limbrick drums / percussion
Christophe Fellay drums / composer
Peter Wiegold keyboard / director
International Press
“Christophe Fellay is an accomplished musician, coaxing percussive conversations out of his kit,
as well as chimes, tympani-like rumbles and massive tidal boomings as he creates a clamorous
soundscape...He scrapes drum skins with a microphone, looping the sampled sound into the beat,
he scrunches bubble wrap and deploys swathes of electronic sound which, at one point, suggest
he has been doing unspeakable things to the innards of a piano.” - Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman
“Imagine jazz, stripped of everything but the drums. Various percussion, loop pedal, synthesisers
and amps are used to create a sound so strange, rhythmic and hypnotic it is difficult to be unmoved.” - Pete Speight, Three Weeks
“Peter Wiegold is one of the most innovative musicians working today. He “toys with the
relationship between composer, music director and performer, reworking their roles in the creative
process” - The Time, and all the while providing “inspirational direction” - The Independent
“Feverish burning creativity.....under the ever-cool command of the intrepid Peter Wiegold.”
- Malcom Miller, mvdaily.com
Notes Inégales “Sometimes an abstract, building, beat-less atmosphere, other times a bass-heavy
hip-hop style instrumental and everything in between, the performance was absolutely absorbing.
A magical, musical trip...” - Jahan Nazeer, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
artistic director christophe fellay [email protected] mobile +41 77 416 58 69
press relations susannah davies [email protected] mobile +41 79 375 80 77 www.christophefellay.com