RENÉ AUBRY 

29 NOVEMBER

AUDITORIUM

21:30

Music

RENÉ AUBRY

Music for performances by Carolyn Carlson, Pina Baush and Phillippe Genty, film soundtracks and 15 solo albums make up his curriculum. René Aubry is a popular, prolific and low profile composer. His career has turned him into a self-taught composer of “songs without words”.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and responsible for his own sound engineering, René Aubry works solo and his albums feature a mixture of classical harmonies and modern instrumentation, snippets of voice and violins “splashed with Beethoven, Stravinski or Puccini”. Catalogues effectively have to give up when trying to classify his recordings: classical, ballet, new age, new wave, rock, variety, world music have all been applied.

The desire to take to the stage came later on in life and initially ran counter to his personal wishes. When, at the beginning of the 1990s, the organisers of the “Festival de Musiques Possibles” in Italy, invited him to give a concert, he refused and was only to grant his consent after three years of talks. In 1994, he finally made his Festival premiere and in the company of Phillip Glass, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and David Byrne.
This shy performer, who once worked alone on his musical craft, has since learned to work with instrumentalists and above all to appreciate contact with the public and now tours Europe with his septet.

Program
Performance of his latest album Play Time


PRICE: € 15.00
€ 25.00 – Performances by Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster + René Aubry
€ 35.00 - All three concerts
€ 20.00 – Performances by Liu Fang + Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster or René Aubry

Age 6+
APPROX. DURATION: 1 hour and 30 minutes, without intermission

Co-production: Fundação Oriente/Sons em Trânsito