Simon Lenski

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

As a cello player, he is a highly sought guest musician for other artists and music groups, often together with his brother . In 2004 he set up a collaboration with Swiss avant-garde cello player .[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.

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 . 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, key's & 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.

  • Simon Lenski / Bo Wiget - Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde (2007)
  • Laïs Lenski - Laïs Lenski[5][6] (2009), together with Laïs
  • Simon Lenski: Oh City (solo EP 2016) Simon Lenski

Collaborations[]


Film and theatre scores[]

  •  [nl] / Venlo, Theatre Score[10]
  •  [nl] / The Haunted House of History, Theatre Score and performer[11]
  •  [nl] / Meg Stuart : Revisited, performer[12]
  • , Theatre Score
  • / Der (kommende) Aufstand, performer[13]
  • / Orpheus in der Oberwelt, Theatre Score / performer[14]
  • " / Macbeth, Theatre Score and performer[15]
  • Left Bank Linkeroever, soundtrack[16]
  • , soundtrack[17]
  • Needcompany / , Performer / Theatre Score[18]
  • & CAMPO/ Hello Useless, for W and friends, Theatre Score[19]
  •  [nl] / The Future of Sex , Theatre Score / Performer[20]

Needcompany[]

References[]

  1. ^ Simon Lenski at Discogs
  2. ^ Bo Wiget biography Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ (in Dutch) review Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde
  4. ^ "Dance(R) (work in progress) / Goldberg Variations - Concertgebouw Brugge". www.concertgebouw.be. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  5. ^ Ultratop charts
  6. ^ (in Dutch) review Laïs Lenski
  7. ^ "Eindelijk Vakantie!". 2 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Needcompany | Ensemble". www.needcompany.org. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  9. ^ "DPG Media Privacy Gate".
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ (in Dutch) https://web.archive.org/web/20081024213231/http://www.vooruit.be/nl/event/1007. Archived from the original on 24 October 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ [3]
  14. ^ "Orpheus in der Oberwelt: Eine Schlepperoper – andcompany&Co".
  15. ^ (in Dutch)[4]
  16. ^ "Left Bank".
  17. ^ "Waste Land".
  18. ^ "Needcompany".
  19. ^ "Hello useless - for W and friends - Campo".
  20. ^ "The New Forest - Haal de natuur in huis!".
  21. ^ "Needcompany | O Or The Challenge Of This Particular Show Was To Have Words Ending In O". www.needcompany.org. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

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