Wibert Aerts

Category:solist, muzikant, docent, hedendaagse muziek
Ninove, 1974
Genre(s):21ste eeuw / hedendaags, 20ste eeuw, romantiek, classicisme
Instrument(s):viool
Actual/previous member of:Het Collectief

Biography

Wibert Aerts is especially known as a chamber musician and a violonist of the very appreciated chamber music quintet “Het Collectief. Several  CD’s of the latter ensemble have received  laudatory  reviews  in international professional journals such as Gramophone, Répertoire,  Scherzo and Diapasonn, monde de la musique.

In 2011 the ensemble got the Klara-award of “best musician of the year” by the Flemish classic radio.

In 1998, he decided to team up with the Spanish pianist Caridad Galindo and since then they regularly perform as a duo.

Besides he has built up a considerable reputation with daring solo recitals of modern and contemporary music.  In 2008 his solo cd “Violin Faces”, including works of Zimmermann, Hartmann and L. Berio  , comes out on the Label Fuga Libera and received laudatory reviews in international and national press such as Monde de La Musique ( 4 stars), Classiqueinfo, Crescendo, Klassik.com… to mention those few.

In a recent cd review on “Violin Faces” The Strad magazine mentioned: “…but Belgian player Wibert Aerts has crafted this disc to perfection. ‘Violin Faces’ has a broad mix of works dating from 1927 to 2001, all highly coloured and well contrasted, and performed with tender delicacy by Aerts, whose sweet-singing tone ensures that even in its grittiest moments this music never grates.

In 2013 he made his debut in Germany  as soloist in the violinconcerto of K.Saariaho and performed the violinconcerto of Bram van Camp with the Symphony of Flanders.

As soloist and member of “Het Collectief he has performed in and outside Europe playing at well-known festivals such as Festival de Saintes ( France) Ars Musica , Festival van Vlaanderen, Klara Festival, Festival de Wallonie, Cellofestival ( Novosibirsk), Festival Campos de jordao ( Sao Paulo), Ruhrtriënale, Festival 20/21 Leuven,  and at famous concerthalls including Concertgebouw Amsterdam,  Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Bozar (Brussels), deSingel, Concertgebouw Brugge, Gulbenkian (Lisboa), Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, De Doelen (Rotterdam),  to mention a few of them.

Wibert Aerts has been involved in many world creations of pieces by contemporary composers, including J.-P. Deleuze,  Mauricio Kagel, Kee-Yong Chong, Mattijs Van Damme, Walter Hus, Frederic Dhaene, Daan Janssens, Luc Breways, Frederic Rzewsky, Vykintas Baltakas...

Besides he was  concertmaster of the renowned Doelenensemble (2011-2013) and member of the Taurus Quartet (2011-2015).

In September 2016 he played the violin concerto of Charlotte Bray with the Notabu ensemble neue Musik in the Tonhalle of Dusseldorf.

Wibert Aerts recorded more than 10 cd’s including works of composers such as Bach, Messiaen, Schönberg, Xenakis, Berio, Zimmermann, Hartmann en Chong, Berg, Webern en Zemlinsky. (Fuga Libera,  Eaon, Klara, ZigZag ( Alpha) )

Wibert Aerts currently teaches at the Royal Conservatoires of Mons and Ghent.

Selective discography

Violin faces IIViolin faces II (2018)
21st century / contemporary
HERMESensemble, Bram Van Camp, Wibert Aerts, Charlotte Bray, Kaija Saariaho, Notabu Ensemble
Scoop - Concertgebouw Brugge - Jonge musici op weg naar de topScoop - Concertgebouw Brugge - Jonge musici op weg naar de top (2011)
21st century / contemporary, 20th century, romanticism, classicism, Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach, Wibert Aerts, Bram Van Camp, EnAccord Strijkkwartet, Pierre Boulez, Arsis4 (strijkkwartet), Mattijs Van Damme, Les Timbres (...)
Violin facesViolin faces (2008)
20th century
Wibert Aerts, Luciano Berio, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Kee-Yong Chong
Ein musikalisches Opfer "revisited" J.S.BachEin musikalisches Opfer "revisited" J.S.Bach (2006)
20th century
Thomas Dieltjens, Wibert Aerts, Toon Fret, Benjamin Dieltjens, Het Collectief, Johann Sebastian Bach

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

12 x 12 - A musical zodiac12 x 12 - A musical zodiac (2012)
21st century / contemporary, 20th century, early music
Capilla Flamenca, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Het Collectief, Pierre Des Molins, Johannes Ciconia, Faenza Codex, Guillaume de Machaut, Nicholas Pykini (...)
Iannis XenakisIannis Xenakis (2011)
20th century
Arne Deforce, Iannis Xenakis, James Wood, Ensemble musikFabrik
Arnold Schönberg - Pierrot Lunaire / KammersymphonieArnold Schönberg - Pierrot Lunaire / Kammersymphonie (2004)
20th century
Robin Engelen, Het Collectief, Arnold Schönberg

Related Items

Releases:Messiaen Olivier - Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
External links:Spotify van Wibert Aerts