Biography

Member of the Ensemble Ictus, he participated in numerous designs, both in the field of concert music, in whole or in large chamber music (creation of works by Lindberg, Reich, Aperghis, Mernier, Leroux, Harada, Francesconi , ...) in the mixed experiences, especially with dance (many creations with Rosas).

Addressed first in the field of theater and dance (with Theâtre Impoplaire, the company Bonté-Mossoux ...), his compositions gradually shifted to pure music, was hailed by the forum of young Composers of the Unesco (Attrition, for string octet) and earned him the Octave of Classical Music 2006. Ictus Ensemble, Music News, TM + Ensemble (Paris), Gageego (Sweden), Danel Quartet, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Champs d'Action, Spectra, played his music. His works have been programmed in many international festivals (Présence (Paris), Ars Musica (Brussels), Vilnius, Nancy, Dijon, Warsaw, Budapest, Venice Biennale, Lima, Copenhagen, ...).

Jean-Luc Fafchamps first devoted himself to writing for various groups in which the piano played a central role (Dynamiques, for two pianos; Melencholia si ..., for two pianos and two percussions ...) before his interest for non-tempered harmonies and polyphony of stamps does lead to other sound combinations: A garden, for wind quintet, Bryce, for clarinet ans string quartet; Les désordres de Herr Zœbius, for string quartet). Since 2000, he is developing an extensive network of cycle - Letters Sufi - a kind of proclamation for writing and the use of open style as rhetoric and of analogical correspondences as a basis for systemic: S(in) for ensemble, K(AF) for orchestra, A(lif) for ensemble and orchestra, Z3 (Dhal) for trombone and electronics, L(am) for orchestra... His taste for the paradoxical constructions and his sense of synthesis thrive in parts that refer to one another. The last part of his triptych for piano Back to ... was imposed as compulseray work for the semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2010.

His works engraved on two monographic cd's on Sub Rosa (Attrition, 1993, and Melencholia si ..., 2003), label for which he also engraved on the piano recordings of Morton Feldman, Berio, Liszt, Dallapicolla, Bowles, Scelsi, ... A disc devoted to his music for small ensembles, ... lines..., was published by Fuga Libera in 2008. WDGhZ2SA, a Six-letter Sufi Word just appeared at Sub Rosa.

He teaches music analysis at the Mons Conservatory.