During Kunstennacht, cellist Benjamin Glorieux, guitarist Tim Finoulst, pianist Maarten Lingier and bassist Martijn Vanbuel will work together to create a unique and memorable performance. Combining their different backgrounds and musical influences, they create a unique sound that is both powerful and subtle. You can experience this concert lying down, sitting down or standing up! This concert is a co-production with De Velinx Tongeren as part of Elfurenmis.
𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗨𝗫: "I don't mind switching from Bach's cello suites to a concert with rapper Pregnant Guy.
Besides being a cellist, I am, to a lesser extent, a composer and, to an even lesser extent, a conductor and pedagogue. I mean that mostly in terms of how I spend my time, because when I'm going for something, I tend to..... go for it. As a cool West Fleming (not my own words), I have a CV in all these capacities with which I could easily fill a few pages, but I'm not going to do that. It is sometimes said that as ex-Best Young Promise of the Klara's I am just about the top of our country when it comes to the instrument called cello but that is relative, such a statement. I would never say that about myself. I just love music!
For the pedantic hunters: on my 18th-century cello from northern France, I play with a modern bow by Russian maker Vladimir Mukhin and a baroque bow by Belgian Jérôme Gastaldo. My BOSS loop station and Ableton have become second nature, and occasionally my electric cello or small spalla sounds, but most of all I love walking and my family. And increasingly, my voice joins in. Baritone/tenor + baritone/tenor of the cello, I really like that combination....
Yes, all beginnings are important. Love struck in Harelbeke and Kortrijk. Ballet I gave up, for music I went to the conservatories of Ghent and Brussels, followed by the Geneva Conservatory. The icing on the cake? Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Muziekkapel Koningin Elisabeth. But once you get into the music business, hardly anyone asks about your degrees. People only ask to be moved, comforted, enthralled.
That's what I try to do by creating new sounds with centuries-old wood and combining it with today's techniques.
Maybe the most fun job in the world, right?"
