If there's one instrument you wouldn't expect at a jazz concert, it's the barrel organ. And yet Pierre Charial has managed to make his player piano the ideal companion for Michael Riessler's clarinet and Lorenzo Riessler's drums. Having unearthed Mozart and Haydn's original repertoire for the instrument, Pierre Charial has gone on to record some of the great contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Xenakis and Bério, and his collaborations with Martial Solal and Sylvie Courvoisier have anchored his work in jazz. With Michael Riessler, he developed an original repertoire based on a central musical theme that conveys the idea of the simultaneity of the digital and the analogue, of complexity and minimalism, of creation and destruction, of repetition and surprise, of utopia and dystopia in a narrative filled with mystery.

Created at the Vilnius Jazz Festival at the instigation of Liudas Mockūnas and Arnas Mikalkėnas, the Improdimensija Orchestra is an ever-young ensemble comprising former students of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. In Strasbourg, Liudas Mockūnas and Marc Ducret are teaming up the finest of French musicians with the Lithuanian orchestra for a truly unconventional project. If the name Liudas Mockūnas is associated with intriguing compositions, in an explosive blend of free jazz and lyricism, that of guitarist Marc Ducret rhymes with eclecticism in forms and formats, diversity of sounds and techniques, giving birth to unexpected music. There's no doubt that this virtuoso duet, a catalyst for the young orchestra's energy, will offer us an exceptional concert.

Concert in partnership with the Vilnius Jazz Festival

Event organised as part of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024