Jean Geoffroy, percussionist, and international soloist, is in residence this week at CNMAT working with composer Edmund Campion on projects and collaborations with the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) and Générateur de Ressources et d’Activités Musicales Exploratoires (GRAME).
Jean Geoffroy is the invited speaker for the composition colloquium this Friday, November 8, at 3 p.m. at CNMAT (free and open to the public):
Innovative tools for performance
In his own words...
On stage, it's about living a moment and not just playing it, that's the difference between an interpreter, even virtuoso, and a musician. It is the difference between thinking the stage as a representation space, or the scene as a meeting space. Meetings between musicians or artists of all disciplines, but also meetings with the audience. As an interpreter, it is always possible to "hide ourselves" behind our virtuosity ... Here, whether with the LWS or the SHC virtuosity is transformed into listening, presence, conviction, incarnation, precisely because there is no technique, tradition, school, or method. These are to invent, to re-invent constantly, as every time we play or replay a work. Rethinking our relationship to the body, to the movement, to carry and to be carried away by the sound that one produces, to surprise oneself of this renewed listening...
During his distinguished career, Mr. Jean Geoffroy has recorded and appeared on over 40 CDs.
