GEO² Christian Klinkenberg Orchestra

• 1 Case Sensitive 04:09
• 2 To Savour the Moment 03:52
• 3 La Cathedrale Saint Paul De Liege 05:37
• 4 Infant Isle 06:19
• 5 Eleven Bells 05:59
• 6 Light and Bright 07:23
• 7 Visionary Blue 06:45
• 8 La Bergerie 04:14
• 9 Nelson 04:03
• 10 Geo 2 09:31
• Total Runtime 57:52

Info for GEO²

For his first album GEO², the Belgian pianist, composer and arranger Christian Klinkenberg reveals a music of spontaneity and tension. With his nine musicians coming from all over Europe, he creates, moulds, invents a new form of modern jazz spread through contemporary compositions techniques and possibilities.

GEO² reflects through avaunt-gardist structures and harmonics a place of musical explorations and performances.

Christian Klinkenberg studied composition first at the jazz section of the “Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel” where he received a Master’s degree in 2006. In 2012, he obtained a Master’s degree in the classical section of the same institution.

The music of Christian Klinkenberg is characterized by the combination of contemporary composition concepts and jazz colors and improvisation. Alongside his work as a composer, Klinkenberg has continued actively as a pianist, bandleader and improviser with different performers and ensembles.

Currently, he teaches at the Conservatoire du Nord in Luxembourg and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, and creates his first opera.

Christian Klinkenberg, piano
Antoine Colin, trumpet
Thomas Mayade, trumpet
Quinten De Craecker, trombone
Bruno Van Der Haegen, tenor saxophone
Tom Bourgeois, alto & soprano saxophone
Benjamin Bertrand, clarinet & bass clarinet
Emily Allison, vocals
Cyrille Obermüller, double bass
Jelle Van Giel, drums

Christian Klinkenberg
Contemporary compositional techniques, firmly connected to the tradition of jazz.

Alongside his work as a composer, Christian has continued actively as a pianist, conductor and improviser with different performers and ensembles. At the moment, Christian is working on his 1st opera which is premiered in late 2016, on a new album with his orchestra and a PhD project about micortonality.

Christian Klinkenberg studied composition first at the jazz section of the “Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel” where he received a Master’s degree in 2006.

In 2012, he obtained a Master’s degree in the classical section of the same institution.

The music of Christian Klinkenberg is characterized by the combination of contemporary composition concepts and jazz colors and improvisation.

Alongside his work as a composer, Klinkenberg has continued actively as a pianist, bandleader and improviser with different performers and ensembles.

Currently, he teaches at the Conservatoire du Nord in Luxembourg and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, has started a PhD in Brussels, leads the „Christian Klinkenberg Orchestra“ in Brussels and plays piano in his own quartet Kadrasonic.

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