Jan Kuijken
A cellist and piano player by training, Jan Kuijken likes collaborating with other artists. After working with the band Louise Avenue, he turned to composing and began working with choreographers, before introducing his own projects as an artist associated with LOD, a production company based in Ghent specialising in musical shows. He first partnered with Josse de Pauw in 2004 to create a first “dramatic concert,” The Soul of Termites, which took the form of a scientific conference that jumped from the lives of termites to the Rwanda massacres. In 2011, they created another concert, The Hanged, in which actors and singers, hanging above an orchestra, sing in Latin and recite texts in Flemish to pay homage to those who paid for their thirst for knowledge with their lives. JFP, April 2014
