MICHEL LYSIGHT
COMPOSER
La Fille du Roi d’Écosse for soprano, clarinet or viola and piano is published
La Fille du Roi d’Écosse (2019), for soprano, clarinet or viola and piano, on a poem by Alain Van Kerckhoven is published by Klarthé Éditions.
Béryllium for soprano, string quartet and piano is published
Béryllium (2020), for soprano, string quartet and piano, on poems by Alain Van Kerckhoven is published by Klarthé
Michel Lysight on Radio Kiosk
Une formidable émission sur Kiosk Radio qui vous permettra de découvrir des extraits de trois de mes œuvres (“L’Œuvre au Rouge” par Tetracelli, “Oréades” et “Les Chants de Casanova”) ainsi que d’autres pièces de compositeurs belges (César Franck, Joseph Jongen etc.). Merci à Olivier Verset, qui décloisonne le “classique” pour le faire partager par le plus grand nombre.
“Labyrinthes” on a New CD: “Belgian Saxophone Music” by Jakub Jarosz
A new CD !
Belgian Saxophone Music (DUX1725)
Jakub Jarosz, saxophone
Krzysztof Augustyn, piano
Works by Michel Lysight (Labyrinthes for solo saxophone, first recording in this version), Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Nazaire Beeckman, Georges Lonque, Marcel Poot, Jean Absil, Piet Swerts, Alain Crépin, Simon Diricq
New CD: “Belgian Works for Cello Quartet” by Tetracelli
Tetracelli asked to me a new cello quartet especially for this recording, and I have composed L’Œuvre au Rouge for this wonderful CD: “Belgian Works for Cello Quartet”.
Works by Michel Lysight (L’Œuvre au Rouge), Joseph Jongen, Robert Darcy and Eduardo Del Pueyo.
Tetracelli
Tanka score (clarinet and piano) is published
Tanka (2015), poetic and meditative piece for clarinet and piano, was composed especially for the clarinet collection directed by Jean-Marc Fessard.
Published by Gérard Billaudot Éditeur https://www.billaudot.com/fr/catalog.php#haut
Seti score (solo saxophone) is published
Seti (2012), virtuose piece for saxophone, was composed especially for the Saxiana Presto Collection, directed by Nicolas Prost.
Published by Gérard Billaudot Éditeur https://www.billaudot.com/fr/catalog.php#haut
Haiku score (flute and piano) is published
Haiku (2015), virtuose and poetic piece for flute and piano, was composed especially for the Concours International du Jeune Flûtiste in France.
Cobalt score is published
Cobalt (2019) is composed for piano four hands, and completes the list of my duets inspired by metals (Titanium, Palladium, Tin).
This work belongs to the New Consonant Music label of my publisher.
Chronographie XII score is published
Chronographie XII (2019) is my second piece composed for violin, clarinet and piano, the first is Runes (same publisher). Many composers used this interesting instrumental combination (Stravinsky, Bartók, Milhaud, Sculthorpe…), and I was very happy when the Erämaa Trio asked to compose a new piece for him. World Premiere by this ensemble 24th November 2019 in Salon Bugrane (Brussels, Belgium).
This work belongs to the New Consonant Music label of my publisher.
L’heure musicale by Duo Gemini
Concert by Duo Gemini with works by Michel Lysight (Interiora Terræ), Claude Debussy, Jean-Paul Dessy
and Arvo Pärt.
Jean-Frédéric Molard, violin
Jean-Noël Remiche, piano
16th February 2020 — 11:00
Maison communale de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
20 rue du Comte de Flandre – 1080 Bruxelles
Belgium
Concert by Kheops Ensemble
Concert by Kheops Ensemble with works by Michel Lysight, Mikhail Glinka, Antonin Dvorak, Charlie Chaplin, Bélà Kovacs, Nino Rota.
Marie Hallynck, violoncello
Ronald Van Spaendonck, clarinet
Muhiddin Durruoglü, piano
8th December 2019 — 15:00
Centre culturel du Brabant wallon, Foyer populaire
3 rue Belotte – Court-Saint-Étienne
Belgium
Michel Lysight conducts the Brussels Royal Conservatory Wind Orchestra
Michel Lysight conducts the Royal Brussels Conservatory Wind Orchestra.
Works by Michel Lysight, Michel Legrand, Benoît Chantry, Anthony Girard, Johan de Meij.
Il will be the Belgian Premiere of Avec des ailes d’or from Anthony Girard.
15th November 2019 — 20:00
Belgium
New CD: “Illuminations” by Duo Gemini
My work Interiora Terræ finds his first recording on this wonderful CD: “ILLUMINATIONS”.
Chronographie XII by Trio Erämaa
Concert by Trio Erämaa with works by Michel Lysight (Chronographie XII, World Premiere), Robert Schumann, Gyorgy Kurtag, Jörg Widmann, Aram Khatchaturian.
Akiko Okawa, violin
Cédric De Bruycker, clarinet
Quentin Meurisse, piano
24th November 2019 — 16:00
Le Salon Bugrane asbl
Avenue de la Bugrane 108 – 1020 Bruxelles
Belgium
Louis Musin Prize 2019 to Michel Lysight
Michel Lysight receives the Louis Musin Prize 2019.
Works by Michel Lysight (Interiora Terræ, Facing the Looking Glass, Trois Croquis, Haru No Haiku, Eriko)
and Arvo Pärt (Fratres).
Jean-Frédéric Molard, violin
Jean-Noël Remiche, piano
Cyril Simon, cello
Ronald Van Spaendonck, clarinet
Il will be the World Premiere of Eriko for violin, clarinet, cello and piano.
17th November 2019 — 10:00
Belgium
Athanor score is published
Athanor is very representative of my orchestral style, with a particular attention to the timbral colours.
World premiere in Paris (Institut du monde arabe, 17th july 2019) by AYPO conducted by Mathieu Braud.
Athanor belongs to the New Consonant Music label of my publisher.
“Athanor” World Premiere by The Arab Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
The Arab Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Mathieu Braud), will perform works by Michel Lysight, Bedrich Smetana, Felix Mendelssohn etc.
Il will be the World Premiere of my new work Athanor for orchestra.
17th July 2019 — 16:00
Festival Musicorum, “Alchemy” by Clarias Quartet
“ALCHEMY”
The Clarias Quartet will perform works by Michel Lysight (“Alchemy” for clarinet quartet), Gioacchino Rossini, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, and Willy Mortier.
10th july 2019 — 12:15 a:m
Festival Musicorum
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts
Rue de la Régence, 3 — 1000 Bruxelles
free entry
“The Old Masters of Speyside” at the Festival d’Aulne
18:45 – 19:15 –
Pre-concert lecture by Olga Novak, music historian, who will reveal all the secrets, anecdotes, and a musical analysis of the works.
20 h –
Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie and Sylvia Huang, laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2019 – violin session, Price Musiq3 of the audience public, and Canvas-Klara Price.
Works by Michel Lysight (The Old Masters of Speyside), Eugène Ysaÿe, Joseph Haydn, Carl Nielsen.
Friday 5 July 2019 at 18:45
Abbaye d’Aulne
Thuin (Belgium)
Adults : 22 €
from 12 to 26 years old : 14 €
children : free
Transitions score is published
Transitions (2019) is my late chamber music work for piccolo or flute, saxophone or clarinet, and piano.
This work belongs to the New Consonant Music label of my publisher.
Prélude et Toccata is published
Prelude and Toccata (1982) can be considered as my Opus 1.
These two very short pieces for piano are the only ones in his catalog to appeal to the twelve-tone serial technique, although in a very weak manner, other influences being quite perceptible in the Toccata. My language having changed dramatically in another direction from the following works, it could have rejected this work of youth made in composition class at the conservatory. I nevertheless wanted it to be published, considering that it represents a stage in my research for a personal style.
Prelude and Toccata belongs to the New Consonant Music label of my publisher.
Festival Sphèramusic : Evening Michel Lysight
Yuhmi Suke Iwamoto (soprano), Jean-Marc Fessard (clarinet), Johan Schmidt (piano), Lionel Bams (piano) and Charles Slingeneyer (piano) perform my following works :
Trois Croquis for clarinet and et piano, Thrène for voice and piano, Trois Images de Magali for voice and piano (poem by Alain Van Kerckhoven, world creation), La Fille du Roi d’Écosse for voice, clarinet and piano (poem by Alain Van Kerckhoven, world creation), Sonata for clarinet and piano, Deux Esquisses for piano, Nocturnes for piano (world creation)
14 June 2019 at 20:00
Espace Delvaux
3, Rue Gratès
1170 Watermael – Boitsfort (Brussels)
“Haru No Haiku” and “Thrène”, MIM (Brussels)
New CD : Pulsions by Duo Ypsilon
Very pleased by discovering a new CD with my work Titanium: “PULSIONS”.
The Duo Ypsilon commissioned me Titanium especially for this recording.