Composer & Piano
Biography:
After completing his classical training (academy and conservatory in Belgium, then conservatory in France with state teaching qualifications from the Ministry of Culture) followed by a degree in jazz and improvised music (including Berklee School, Boston, USA) and numerous specialist internships (including IRCAM). Patrick Defossez on the one hand, a polyesthetic composer, immersed in the life of contemporary sound creation (ensemble intercontemporain, public composition commissions...) and, on the other hand, an active interpreter in the improvisation scene, who is committed to interdisciplinary improvisational processes that more or less incorporate the current digital possibilities of making music. He teaches multidimensional music composition at a state regional conservatory: classical new music, mixed music (with new musical technologies), as well as all forms of improvisation.
As a composer, he prefers an art of composition, a "polyphony of styles" between the structured languages of contemporary written art music, electro-acoustic music, from mixed music (acoustic instruments combined with electronic instruments) to the much more "fleeting" improvisation. Composition in connection with poetry and fine arts (painting, sculpture...), with video and film art is particularly close to his heart. As a performer he prefers the contemporary piano, both in mixed and improvisational use, as a solo or ensemble instrument, promoting new rhetoric and technique of today's piano, exploring the interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic worlds, the relationships between solo piano and electronically "accompanied" piano, between strict spelling and ephemeral art of the moment - not to forget the interpretation in connection with poetry and fine arts (painting, sculpture ...), with video and film art.
University teaching: State teaching qualifications (Diplôme d'État and Certificat d'Aptitude from the French Ministry of Culture in jazz and improvised music), degree in composition in the class of Claude Ballif at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
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