The ensemble Musiques Nouvelles was founded in 1962 on the initiative of conductor and composer Pierre Bartholomée with a view to enriching and promoting new compositions in all their diversity. The ensemble consists of a core made up of a dozen dedicated musicians chosen for their great virtuosity and their fervent commitment to serving new musics in Wallonia and Brussels as well as on the international stage. Jean-Paul Dessy has been the ensemble’s artistic director since 1997. Under his direction, Musiques Nouvelles has continued to deploy its creative force and has consistently reinvented itself through unusual and protean projects arising from fruitful artistic encounters. These encounters cut across borders and sometimes across disciplines, combining music, dance, cinema, opera, theatre, poetry, spirituality and the visual arts.

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