Simon Lenski Explained

Simon Lenski is a cello player from Antwerp, Belgium. His main activity lies within the band DAAU which he co-founded in 1992.[1]

As a cello player, he is a highly sought guest musician for other artists and music groups, often together with his brother Buni Lenski. In 2004 he set up a collaboration with Swiss avant-garde cello player Bo Wiget.[2] Together they released an album Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.[3]

In 2008 Simon Lenski composed the soundtrack for the movie Left Bank Linkeroever by Pieter Van Hees.

Simon Lenski composed the music for several theater plays.

In 2011 Simon Lenski composed and recorded the soundtrack for the short movie Motor of Dutch movie maker Simone Bennett. For this musical piece a special electric twelve string violin was built for him by experimental luthier Yuri Landman.

Since 2017 Simon Lenski is a member of the Needcompany ensemble.

2018-19 he toured Europe with Selah Sue as member of an acoustic trio formation (guitar / vocal, keyboards & cello).

In 2019 he created, in collaboration with George van Dam a dance performance based on the Goldberg Variations in which George van Dam played the entire Variations and Simon Lenski danced to them. The piece premièred at the December Dance festival in Bruges on december 6th 2019.[4]

Discography

For Simon Lenski's discography with DAAU, please see DAAU.

Collaborations

Film and theatre scores

Needcompany

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Simon Lenski . 2024-04-24 . www.begeerte.be . nl-BE.
  2. Web site: 2006-07-21 . Bo Wiget, cello player, live electronics, jazz, theater music . 2024-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060721134249/http://www.bowiget.com/en/biography.html . 21 July 2006 .
  3. Web site: 2007-04-29 . Bo Wiget & Simon Lenski - Die Vögelein Schweigen Im Walde . 2024-04-24 . Kwadratuur . nl.
  4. Web site: Dance(R) (work in progress) / Goldberg Variations - Concertgebouw Brugge. 2021-04-01. www.concertgebouw.be.
  5. http://www.ultratop.be/en/showitem.asp?interpret=La%EFs+Lenski&titel=La%EFs+Lenski&cat=a Ultratop charts
  6. review Laïs Lenski
  7. Web site: Eindelijk Vakantie!. 2 March 2015.
  8. Web site: Needcompany Ensemble. 2021-04-01. www.needcompany.org.
  9. Web site: Van Assche. Gunter. Dit was misschien de mooiste en meest oprechte versie van Selah Sue die we ooit zagen. De Morgen. 2023-11-22. 2018-04-01. nl.
  10. Web site: Venlo . www.wunderbaum.nl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160924232113/http://www.wunderbaum.nl/Venlo1.html . 2016-09-24.
  11. Web site: Haunted house . www.wunderbaum.nl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002353/http://www.wunderbaum.nl/spookhuis1.html . 2016-03-04.
  12. Web site: Vooruit – Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods: REVISITED. 2013-03-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081024213231/http://www.vooruit.be/nl/event/1007 . 24 October 2008. nl.
  13. http://english.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programme/schedule/andcompany-der-kommende-aufstand/
  14. Web site: Orpheus in der Oberwelt: Eine Schlepperoper – andcompany&Co.
  15. http://www.froefroe.be/nl/production/114/macbeth
  16. Web site: Left Bank. 2008.
  17. Web site: Waste Land. 2014.
  18. Web site: Needcompany.
  19. Web site: Hello useless - for W and friends - Campo. 21 March 2016 .
  20. Web site: The New Forest - Haal de natuur in huis!.
  21. Web site: Needcompany O Or The Challenge Of This Particular Show Was To Have Words Ending In O. 2021-04-01. www.needcompany.org.

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