Chapeau Classique: Duo Spike: Conversation Intime in Münster

Gabriel Yeo, piano | Holger Roese, percussion

When Thu, November 27, 2025, 8:00 PM

‍Where or WHAT Münster NRW.BANK Münster‍

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‍organizer GWK eV

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A grand piano plus numerous percussion instruments: a new world of sound, from mysterious soundscapes to thrilling grooves, opens up. Gabriel Yeo, prizewinner of the GWK and international piano competitions, and the multi-award-winning percussionist Holger Roese, a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre in Flensburg, found each other as scholarship holders of the German Music Competition. They gave themselves the programmatic name "Spike" after an incendiary classic from the still-young duo scene.

In "Spike" for percussion instruments and piano, New Zealander John Psathas, whose works draw influences from jazz, classical, avant-garde, electronic, and others, starts from the simplest musical idea: the repetition of a single note. This spike penetrates diverse sound environments, rising and falling in waves of varying intensity. The classical world, too, has its spikes, for example, in the forward-pushing single-note repetitions in the theme of Haydn's C-sharp minor piano sonata. This is familiar absolute music. Absolute, yet abstract in its new tone, Ferrari's "Conversation Intime" is absolute: "No words, no meanings, neither literal nor otherwise," he says, characterize his ballad, "only the longing to let two such different instruments speak together. Would they expose each other to danger or exploit their differences and profit from it?" Ferrari lets them do both. Meditative, hypnotic, virtuosic. Xenakis' "Rebonds," the classic for solo percussion, is considered an "immense abstract ritual" (J. Lonchampt). The rhythms and sounds are fascinating; one imagines several instrumentalists are playing. Debussy's delicately humorous "Children's Corner" and Corea's charming "Children's Songs" will experience a new arrangement by Spike. Childhood memories with Debussy range from piano practice to snowstorms to puppet shows with ragtime. Corea will present the first song, "Simplicity as Beauty, as it appears in the mind of a child." Later, things get complicated: colorful fun.

Musicians:
Duo Spike
Gabriel Yeo Piano
Holger Roese Percussion

Program: Conversation Intime
John Psathas (*1966): Spike, for mallet percussion and piano
Josef Haydn (1732-1809): Sonata No. 49 in C-sharp minor, Hob. XVI:36
Luc Ferrari (1929-2005): Conversation Intime, for piano and percussion
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): Rebonds
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Children's Corner
Chick Corea (1941-2021): Children's Songs

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