maandagPianist, organist, composer
Pianist Fred Van Hove is one of the pioneers of improvised music. Not quite jazz, not really classical, Van Hove's music has elements of both, but manages to transcend those classifications to create a genre all its own. Van Hove's virtuosity brings to his music an almost impossibly broad range of influences, clear echoes of Erroll Gardner, Arnold Schoenberg, Lennie Tristano, Cecil Taylor and others—an uncommon and tantalizing combination. He has performed with most of the world's improv musicians in a variety of combinations: solo, duo, trio and large ensembles such as the legendary Peter Brötzmann Octet and Van Hove's own 't Nonet. For 2001, Van Hove planned new combos, such as piano paired with a quartet of string players, and his own line-up of piano, bass and drums—one of the classic jazz combos which Van Hove in some 40 years of performing has never attempted.
Van Hove was born in 1937 in Antwerp, Belgium. His father was a self-taught musician who played trombone and double-bass and who was aware from personal experience of the limitations of self-training and private lessons. He made up his mind that his son would have a real musical education. Thus, around the age of eleven, Fred Van Hove entered the musical academy in his home town of Antwerp where he studied classical piano for the next seven or eight years. Normally such a student would have gone on to conservatory. By that time, however, Van Hove was already interested in jazz. He left school, but continues to use classical exercises to practice. "I do because they're the most advanced, the most advanced technically speaking, to get all the different things of piano playing in your fingers," he told Contemporary Musicians. "I still use them almost every day."
Formed first jazz group, middle 1950s; began collaboration with Peter Brötzmann, 1966; performed in trio with Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink, 1968-75; WIM collective formed, 1971; began playing solo piano in accompaniment to silent and experimental films, mid-1970s; formed Musica Libera Antverpiae (MLA), a group of around seven improvising musicians, 1978; became artist-in-residence in Berlin, Germany, at invitation of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1983; made several tours of Japan, mid-1980s; formed trio with singer Annick Nozati and Johannes Bauer, 1988; began teaching in the music department at the university at Lille France, 1990; formed 't Nonet, with Marc Charig and Axel Dörner, trumpet; Annick Nozati, voice; Paul Rutherford and Johannes Bauer, trombones; Benoit Viredaz, tuba; Evan Parker, John Butcher and André Goudbeek, saxophones; and Ivo Vander Borght, percussion, 1991; received title Cultural Ambassador of Flanders, 1996-97.
a beautiful and damaged piano runs into a madman of passion,reason and unreason.
APPELBOL 10 1:54
BALLADE TERUG 1:50
CANTANKEROUS 2:52
DEAR ME 1:09
HOOFD-,BIJ-EN NEVENZIN 3:35
KLOMPENOVOURTURE 5:51
OLD MAID IN A DRAWING ROOM 1:54
ONHEIL 1:11
OUVERTURE IN DE MAAT 2:29
OVER HERE ALBERT 3:43
SAMENGEVAT 3:51
TANGO REVEIL 2:02
TWEE HOOG 2:43
WEEN, GELIEF BROEDER 3:45
WORSTENBROOD 8 2:26
WORSTENBROOD 9 2:09
