SONNEURS - Erwan Keravec

We are familiar with string quartets and wind quartets, but what  about bagpipe quartets? The Northern French bagpipe innovator Erwan  Keravec took up the challenge and put together a band with the four  different types of bagpipes used in Breton traditional music: the  exceptionally loud bombarde, the high and shrill binioù kozh, the  Scottish bagpipe and the trelombard. The pure, physical power and  richness of drones and sounds that a band like this can produce make it a  veritable playground for adventurous composers, four of whom took up  the challenge. One of them is Jessica Ekomane, who will play on the  Friday night of Gaudeamus 2022. That same night also features an  arrangement of Philip Glass’s classic Music in Similar Motion, which is guaranteed to be spectacular.

PROGRAM Dror Feiler - Desobedience in BDS Jessica Ekomane - Latitudes Wolfgang Mitterer - RUN Bernard Cavanna - To Air One Philip Glass - Music in Similar Motion