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Due to the health measures in place (COVID-19), this year’s Images Sonores 2021 festival will take an alternative form.

A series of concerts will take place in the autumn in Liège, Mons and Brussels, including the premiere of the work Eco Ricercata by Denis Bosse, accompanied by a film by Isabelle Françaix.

During the usual festival period in the spring, we will make several recordings of the planned projects. On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May, Pierre Berthet’s sound installation Chaises Musicales, developed during a residency at RAVI (Liège), will be accessible to the public from 2 to 5 pm in the courtyard between RAVI and Créahm. For information and reservations, please consult the agenda.

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Pierre Berthet – Chaises musicales

A jury, consisting of personalities from the  contemporary music scene
such as Michel Fourgon, Marianne Pousseur, Gilles Gobert, Malika
Kishino, Claude Ledoux, Daan Janssens and Marie-Isabelle Collart, has
awarded the Prize Henri Pousseur 2019-2020 to Alithéa Ripoll.

Formed at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège and winner of the André
Souris Prize (2015), Alithéa Ripoll will receive a grant for the
development of a new mixed piece as part of this Prize Henri Pousseur.
The new piece will be presented on 11 December 2020 at the Théâtre de
Liège during an evening in collaboration with the Province of Liège and
the programme of Ça Balance Musique Contemporaine.

Given the current circumstances related to Covid-19, the Centre Henri Pousseur, in consultation with all partners, has taken the decision to cancel the Images Sonores 2020 festival, which was originally scheduled to begin on April 30.

We regret to have to take this decision today, but given the current situation, it is no longer possible to guarantee the organisation of the festival, as well as the intended artistic level. We deeply regret to disappoint the public and the artists in this way, and we thank everyone for the expressions of support and understanding already received.

Together with the various partners, the Centre Henri Pousseur is currently studying the possibility of presenting the various programmes at a later date or integrating them into new initiatives. Several creations of the festival will be to be discovered during the concert within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the Centre in Brussels (the Senghor), on October 24th, 2020. As soon as the new dates of the different projects are decided, they will be communicated through the usual communication channels of the Centre Henri Pousseur.

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In the context of the current situation around Covid-19, the following concerts are cancelled:
– The concert of the composition & mixed composition classes of the Royal Conservatory of Liège (L’An Vert, 19 March)
– the festival Électrocution in Brest, from 26 till 28 March
– A Page of Madness, in Flagey (April 2), NTGent (April 3) and Amsterdam (April 25).

We will inform you as soon as new dates for these concerts are set.