L'ange de Minuit

Over the centuries, the piano has become the ultimate keyboard instrument. Apart from playing common repertoire, pianists used to improvise, create and perform their own pieces. This tradition has mostly disappeared in the 20th century. This CD recording is part of an academic research at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, with the aim of reviving the tradition of combining creation and performance but with contemporary aesthetics. Jeroen Malaise (b.1971, Antwerp, Belgium) is a pianist-composer and teacher at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. He mainly focuses on contemporary music experience and has a fascination for various traditions and different forms of improvisation.