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Jacques Demierre

04.11.1954

Pianist and composer, Jacques Demierre was born in Geneva. His musical career has followed various paths through improvised music, jazz and contemporary music.
As a composer he is mainly self-taught. He writes for concerts and theatre and works alongside choreographers. He receives commissions from the field of jazz and contemporary music. As a pianist he has performed with numerous improvisation groups including with Barre Philips, Martial Solal, Radu Malfatti, Joelle Leandre, Urs Blochlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Carlos Zingaro, Han Bennink, Ikue Mori, Dorothea Schürch, he also gives regular solo concerts. He works with new music ensembles, is a freelance music writer and co-editor of the ‘Revue Contrechamps’ which is dedicated to twentieth century music.

Jacques Demierre
3, rue de la Poterie
CH-1202 Genève
Fon: +41 (0)22 329 48 38
E-mail: jacdem@geneva-link.ch

Scores

The Case of Mr. V. (1985)

for tuba solo
Order No: 0901, sFr. 18.00, € 14.00

A plausible portrait of the tuba player in his solitude.

Je deviendrai Médée (1986)

30'

for voice solo
Order No: 0902, sFr. 42.00, € 32.00

Texts: Euripides, Heiner Müller, Pier Paolo Pasolini What is stronger than to see this woman, Medea, who progressively propagates and accomplishes her own myth?

Expinnocence (1986)

45'

for voice, 2 pianos and violoncello
Order No: 0903, sFr. 68.00, € 52.00

Texts: William Blake Written for an improviser/reader, these pieces attempt to recreate a fantasy world in honour of some of William Blake's poems.

Bleu (1986)

for voice solo
Order No: 0904, sFr. 13.00, € 10.00

Texts: Everyday advertising and media language The performance of a singer who tries in vain to suppress her fit of giggles. Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.

Outward (hommage à Eric Dolphy) (1988)

15'

for flute and clarinet
Order No: 0906, sFr. 39.00, € 30.00

"Rhythm, is in fact, the only art or system in which the various energies can be ordered and sustained. The basis of a vital and psychological dynamic is rhythm." (G. Bachelard).

Désir d'azur: musique de danse (1988)

42'

for 8 voices and 2 pianos
Order No: 0907, sFr. 70.00, € 54.00

Texts: Roberto Juarroz The electric pianos remind one of toy pianos that grew too fast. The words are sonorous, the lists long and dense.

Altus (1988)

pour orgue
Order No: 0908, sFr. 34.00, € 26.00

This piece is concerned with the moment. It is a contest in which the contestants are missing.

Terminus (take two) (1988)

11'

for flute and piano
Order No: 0909, sFr. 26.00, € 20.00

This piece stages its own silence, even the fragile and dramatic silence that emerges only after the final tone has sounded.

Une table pour trois, ou la troïka s'ennuie (1990)

20'

for three percussionists
Order No: 0910, sFr. 26.00, € 20.00

(Parts: sFr. 30.-; € 20.00)
This piece is based around numerous hand playing techniques (from the most common gestures to the orthodox playing techniques of the darbuka). It develops theatrically according to the gestures of each performer. Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.

L'archer, l'arc, la flèche et le blanc, ou l'Eloge de l'irritation (1990)

12'

for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, vioncello, two marimbas and imrovised piano
Order No: 0911, sFr. 57.00, € 44.00

(Parts: sFr. 50.-; € 33.00)
Dialectic between the pianist and ensemble involving the discovery of the unanticipated improvised moment within the notated musical gestures.

Quelques remarques (1991)

13'

for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone and four-handed piano
Order No: 0923, sFr. 57.00, € 44.00

(Parts: sFr. 90.-; € 90.-)

Portrait de ça en cale sèche (1991)

70'

for speaker, three female voices, tuba, accordion, two pianos and choir
Order No: 0912, sFr. 230.00, € 188.00

Texts: Jacques Roman The content of the piece has a diffused feeling, a difficult to describe situation summed up excellently with a short sentence by B. Requichot: "je ne sais pas c'qui m'quoi."

Nous ici (1993)

13'

for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano
Order No: 0913, sFr. 70.00, € 54.00

Texts: Jacques Roman Three main 'characters'. A text by Jacques Roman based on African rhythm organisation and inspired by the solo fragments of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

W. J. (take one) (1994)

for choir
Order No: 0914, sFr. 49.00, € 38.00

Texts: Henri Calet A tribute to Henri Calet in the form of numbers and letters. Eight voices.

Desalpe (1994)

20'

for marimba solo
Order No: 0915, sFr. 26.00, € 20.00

A meeting of truly ancient sounds, whose strength lies in its evocation through the delicacy of its figures. The piece reveals only slightly, the secrets hidden in the wood of the marimba.

La colonne brisée - Frida Kahlo (1996)

58'

for voice solo
Order No: 0916, sFr. 65.00, € 50.00

Texts: Subcommandante Marcos, Frida Kahlo A female voice appears alone on stage. It speaks of the journey from the personal to the universal, a journey brimming with sense and dramatic tension, a journey which connects the singularity of the body with the multitude of a myth dependent on the humanity of a mysticised being - simply our world.

Max und Moritz (1996)

20'

for speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
Order No: 0917, sFr. 57.00, € 44.00

Texts: Wilhelm Busch Musical version of the adventures of those two lovable rascals…

De la tête au pied (1997)

for double bass
Order No: 0919, sFr. 39.00, € 30.00

The languages came first. The country after. (1997)

70'

three spoken voices
Order No: 0918, sFr. 83.00, € 64.00

Texts: John Ronald Raul Tolkien Poetic route for three voices - and in the language of fairies which derives from the language of nature. Homage to John Ronald Raul Tolkien’s love of language.

Traces (2003)

15'

for string orchestra
Order No: 0920, sFr. 57.00, € 44.00

(Material: sFr. 90.-; € 90.-)

17 (2003)

60'

After Christian Wolff
for 4 instruments
Order No: 0922, sFr. 47.00, € 36.00

Cycle of 17 pieces. These pieces can be played as a whole or independently, in any order.

AQUARIUM (2004)

12'

for 7 instruments
Order No: 0921, sFr. 55.00, € 42.00

(Set of 3 scores)
Graphic score.

Discs

vincent barras / jacques demierre: homard et autres pièces inquiétantes et capitales

Vincent Barras:
Jacques Demierre:
Homard et autres pièces inquiétantes et capitales
(Vincent Barras, Jacques Demierre)

stv/asm 006

SME/EMS Order Nr.: 114

Price CHF: 30.- Price EUR: 19.-

Jacques Demierre: le tout sur le tout

Jacques Demierre: Le tout sur le tout
(Jacques Demierre; Sylvie Courvoisier; Süté Gergely; Adrien Kessler; Jim Meneses)

Musiques Suisses MGB 9502

SME/EMS Order Nr.: 58

Price CHF: 29.- Price EUR: 18.-

Jacques Demierre

Jacques Demierre:
Bleu
(Magali Schwartz)
Désir d'azur
(Magali Schwartz; Jacques Demierre)
Je deviendrai Médée
(Magali Schwartz)

Grammont CTS-P 38-2

SME/EMS Order Nr.: 36

Price CHF: 29.- Price EUR: 18.-

Further Discs:
Unit Records UTR 4019: "Assemblance"
Plainisphare 1267-45: "Fabrik-Songs, improvisations sur Weill et Eisler"
Plainisphare 1267-115: "Avec"
Ensemble:
Plainisphare PAV 802: "Disque" (avec Maurice Magnoni
MWO 03: "Au homard" (avec Vincent Barras)
Plainisphare 1267-61: "Live in Lausanne" (avec U. Blöchlinger et O. Magnenat)
Intakt Records 031: "Choockshut" (avec H. Koch, M. Schütz, A. Marti, S. Wittwer, F. Studer)
Plainisphare 1267-83: "You need it" (avec U. Blöchlinger, O. Magnenat)
Unit Records UTR 4125: "Musique nucléaire" (avec Hervé Provini)
Intact Records 064: "Deux pianos" (avec Sylvie Courvoisier)

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