MICHEL LYSIGHT

Imagine music that, from the very first listen, touches you to the very depths of your being. Michel Lysight’s compositions, some of which are dedicated to me, are moments of beauty in an anxious world.

The greatest quality of a composer is to go deep within himself to find what he has to express in a sincere, impudent process, that of the furrow of his music that he digs without respite like Sisyphus rolling his stone. Michel Lysight’s furrow is the rhythm, the counterpoint, the new consonance that he organises in a music that is inspired, luminous, sincere and endearing, making him a remarkable composer.

Michel Lysight is a master in the art of creating fascinating rhythmic cogs within which irresistible melodies coiled in subtle harmonic interweavings develop. It’s a joy to listen to his music, and a joy to conduct it!

The humanity that permeates his works, his personal language that is instantly recognisable, his sense of melody that is inspired by the past but resolutely turned towards the future – all this gives me, and will give me for a long time to come, the immense pleasure that I get from performing Michel Lysight’s music.

I came to contemporary music through a chapel other than that of Michel Lysight. This was at a time when membership of one school or another was a matter of life and death. Over the years, I was first struck by the number of artists who admired and defended his music; then I got to know the man and the composer. A man who stood tall in a sometimes hostile musical world. An artist who had the courage never to give in to the surrounding injunctions and to remain true to his convictions.