Artist
Lambert Colson
Lambert Colson (08.09.1985) Lambert starts his musical studies in recorder with Francoise Defours and then with Pedro Memeldorff, Bart Coen, Marleen Leicher, Bruce Dickey and Gebhard David; Graduating in famous institutions such as the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, the Esmuc in Barcelona, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the HFK in Bremen.
As both a recorder and a cornetto player, he has been invited to perform with conductors and ensembles such as Scherzi Musicali, Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), Holland Baroque, La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), B'rock, Collegium Vocale (Phillipe Herreweghe), Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), Cappella Meditteranea (Leonardo Garcia Alarcon), Continuum…
He has been running his own artistic projects with his own ensemble InAlto.
In recent years, the recordings of InAlto have been highly praised and rewarded by reviewers all over Europe: Diapason d'Or & Diapason d'Or de l'année 2017, Choc de Classica, 5 stars in Rondo Magazin, the choice of the year in both Libération and Le Monde, Joker Crescendo…
As a researcher, he has been invited to write for La pensée de Midi (Actes Sud).
As a teacher, he has been invited to give lectures and masterclasses at the Fondation Royaumont on various topics such as the history of Western music notation, Luther and music in the Holy Roman Empire. Besides participating in various masterclasses, he now teaches cornetto and historical performance practice at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels as well as at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva.
In addition to his teaching activities, and driven by a constant desire to discover more about performance practice, Lambert Colson has been a research fellow at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels since September 2017, with a focus on instrument making, seeking to identify specific models for specific repertoires in several European museums. This research will be presented as a PhD project in 2024.
Unexpected collaborations led him to discover the use of hypnosis within the creative process with choreographer Catherine Contour. Also interested in developing his musical perspectives on the cornetto, he has worked with contemporary composers such as Zad Moultaka, Fabrice Fitch and Bernard Foccroulle on new compositions, and has collaborated with pop, rock and jazz artists such as Shara Worden, Mugison and Efterklang in association with the Box collective. Since then, he has been involved in various improvised music projects in collaboration with An Pierlé, Liesa van der Aa, Emmanuel Baily, Xavier Rogé, Adam Woolf, Franck Vagané, Jon Birdsong, etc.
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As both a recorder and a cornetto player, he has been invited to perform with conductors and ensembles such as Scherzi Musicali, Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), Holland Baroque, La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), B'rock, Collegium Vocale (Phillipe Herreweghe), Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), Cappella Meditteranea (Leonardo Garcia Alarcon), Continuum…
He has been running his own artistic projects with his own ensemble InAlto.
In recent years, the recordings of InAlto have been highly praised and rewarded by reviewers all over Europe: Diapason d'Or & Diapason d'Or de l'année 2017, Choc de Classica, 5 stars in Rondo Magazin, the choice of the year in both Libération and Le Monde, Joker Crescendo…
As a researcher, he has been invited to write for La pensée de Midi (Actes Sud).
As a teacher, he has been invited to give lectures and masterclasses at the Fondation Royaumont on various topics such as the history of Western music notation, Luther and music in the Holy Roman Empire. Besides participating in various masterclasses, he now teaches cornetto and historical performance practice at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels as well as at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva.
In addition to his teaching activities, and driven by a constant desire to discover more about performance practice, Lambert Colson has been a research fellow at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels since September 2017, with a focus on instrument making, seeking to identify specific models for specific repertoires in several European museums. This research will be presented as a PhD project in 2024.
Unexpected collaborations led him to discover the use of hypnosis within the creative process with choreographer Catherine Contour. Also interested in developing his musical perspectives on the cornetto, he has worked with contemporary composers such as Zad Moultaka, Fabrice Fitch and Bernard Foccroulle on new compositions, and has collaborated with pop, rock and jazz artists such as Shara Worden, Mugison and Efterklang in association with the Box collective. Since then, he has been involved in various improvised music projects in collaboration with An Pierlé, Liesa van der Aa, Emmanuel Baily, Xavier Rogé, Adam Woolf, Franck Vagané, Jon Birdsong, etc.
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