À la flamande
Christine Dysers — À la flamande.
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A Global Perspective on Contemporary Music from Flanders Christine Dysers
Christine Dysers holds a PhD in Music from City, University of London and will be joining the Music Department at Princeton University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2021. Christine’s research is situated at the intersection between musicology, aesthetic theory, and music analysis. Her work focuses on 20th- and 21st-century music, with special interests in contemporary composition and the aesthetics of musical repetition.
For centuries, Flanders has been an international hub of musical creativity. From the late Middle Ages to the early seventeenth century, the whole of Europe had its eyes (and ears) on the musical innovations of the so-called ‘Flemish polyfonists’ – a group of highly trained composers and performers from the Low Countries, who travelled all across the continent to introduce their audiences to the newest musical trends. While it may seem as though this creative upsurge dissipated into more global trends during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, researchers from across the world are currently rediscovering archives full of Flemish music spanning from the early Baroque period to late romanticism. Modernity brought us innovators such as Karel Goeyvaerts and Lucien Goethals, who once again emphasised Flanders as a fertile ground for musical creativity. Today, Flanders takes up an undeniably central role in the international field of new music creation, combining a well-established concert and festival circuit with an exciting young generation of performers and composers.
