Pierre Kolp

Biography

Pierre Kolp is a Belgian composer and music pedagogue born in Cologne, Germany, on 23 March 1969.
With composers Juan Carlos Tolosa, Francis Ubertelli, and David Nuñezañez, he founded the Black Jackets Company in 1995, an international society of contemporary arts based in Brussels.

Work

For many years, Kolp has taught music theory, organology, aesthetics, history, and composition. In 1997, he became director of the Institut de rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique, an educational institute in Brussels. In 2004, he became president of the Francophone Association of Belgian Music Academies and delegate to the European Music Schools Union.
Kolp has written several articles on creativity, time, and musical spaces.
He gave composition master classes at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 1999, and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2002. He also works with conductor Juan Carlos Tolosa, composer André Ristic, and virtuoso Stephane Ginsburgh, all three of whom have also taught at the Institut de rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze de Belgique.

Orchestra

Cosmose (2006–2008), 40 minutes
Ho, mia kor' (2007), 8 minutes
Los cometas colorados – opera (2002), 10 minutes
Manimatrix (2002–2004), 25 minutes
Stop Exchange (2008), 20 minutes

Stage

Désirs chorégraphiques – music for dance (1994), 14 minutes
Los cometas colorados – opera (2002), 10 minutes
The Eyes of Ambush – stage music (2003), 8 minutes
Perdre corps – music for dance (2005), 13 minutes

Chamber ensemble

Chant contre champs – for 7 players (1994), 6 minutes
Antipasti – for 7 players (1995), 12 minutes
Mat – for 6 players (1996), 14 minutes
Have a Break – for 6 players (1997), 18 minutes
Passerelle – for 4 players and electronics (1999), 8 minutes
Mani – for various combinaisons of players (2001–2002)
Wet Wet Wet Wedding – for 3 players and tape (2004), 3–15 minutes

Chamber music

Sept Blasons – for wind quintet (1994), 14 minutes
Interchamps – for 2 flutes and guitar (1994), 14 minutes
Speaker – for flute quartet (1995), 6 minutes
I ching – for flute and guitar (1996), 10 minutes
Incipit vita nova – first piano trio (2001), 7 minutes
So-mani dreams are explored – second piano trio (2005), 15 minutes
The Bowling' Stones – for 2 pianos (2006), 9 minutes
Plug-in – for 2 pianos (2007), 6 minutes

Solo instrument

P as T – for alto (2005)
Sub-Negation – for any solo instrument, 2 versions (2007–2008), 12 minutes
Portiques génitifs – for cello (1994), 6 minutes
Beaver Tuned – for piano (1998), 10 minutes
Due scherzi – for piano (2007), 12 minutes
So Slow the Snow – for piano (2006), 10 minutes

Vocal music

Eggs – for choir (1994), 8 minutes
Hors d'un coffret de Santal – 7 melodies for one singer and piano (1997), 12 minutes