Helmut Lipsky

Thanks to my dear friend Andreas Vollenweider for this memorable collaboration.

My piece "Mirrors" (1985) from my first MÉLOSPHÈRE album from 35 years ago is Number 1 again in "Jazz in Canada" on NumberOneMusic (N1M).

Happy Halloween:-)

Le Trio Grafeneck, Artiste de la semaine de l'Agence artistique Latitude 45! The world premiere of the memorial concert Grafeneck 10654 took place in December of 2015 at Castle Grafeneck in the region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to commemorate the 75 years since 1940, when the Nazis had killed there 10654 people with cognitive and physical disabilities in the first gas chamber of the Holocaust. The same methods were used a year and a half later in Auschwitz-Dachau and ...other concentration camps to murder 6 million Jewish people. The trio is formed by three outstanding musicians, pianist Louise Bessette, violinist Helmut Lipsky and percussionist Olivier Maranda, who recount the emotional and archetypal history of Castle Grafeneck, from its beginning during the Renaissance up to the horrible events of 1940 through the highly expressive compositions and re-imaginations of works by the Swiss composer Thomas Fortmann and the Canadian-German composer and violinist Helmut Lipsky. The programme will be presented again in Grafeneck and in other European festivals in October of 2021 to commemorate the 80 years that have passed since 1940, as well as the 75 years since the liberation of the survivors of the Holocaust. It underlines also the 250th Birthday-Year of Beethoven, whose glorious Ode to Joy has been transformed by Helmut Lipsky into a memorable Requiem. The concert concludes with the monumental composition Grafeneck 1940 by Thomas Fortmann, which deals with the incomprehensible events which took place at Castle Grafeneck during 11 months of 1940. This concert pays homage to the victims of all genocides. It seeks to rescue the memories of these people from oblivion, as well as to shed the lucid light of day on events like Grafeneck, bringing this real, and at the same time metaphorical story back to our present-day conversation. The well-known German artist Jochen Meyder created a commemorative work made up of 10654 sculptures in terracotta. Exhibited at the Grafeneck Memorial Center, images of his work accompany this evocative and thought-provoking musical journey. Click below to learn more See more

Un beau souvenir d'il y a six ans... merci à Michel Dupuis et Coco Jazz et mes superbes musicien(ne)s!

De mes archives : liens vers mon album "Moontide", enregistré en 1995, il y a 25 ans... le temps passe...