Kris Defoort
Kris Defoort studied early music, playing the recorder, and jazz, by learning to play the piano. A composer and noted improviser, he lived in New York before moving back to Belgium to head, among others, the six-man ensemble KD's Basement Party and the trio KD's Decade. A lover of literature, he has composed operas, including The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, House of the Sleeping Beauties, inspired by the works of Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata, as well as shows like The Brodsky Concerts, based on the writings of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, which he created with actor Dirk Roofthooft. All three were LOD productions. It is with the Kris Defoort Trio that he improvises every night the music of An Old Monk, his first collaboration with Josse de Pauw.
JFP, April 2014
