Alice Van Leuven

Quatuor Alfama Kwartet Alice Van Leuven, violin Caroline Denys, violin Morgan Huet, viola Renaat Ackaert, cello Gilles Millet, artistic director Frédéric Briant, sound engineer Thierry Loreau, video director Pieter Peeters, video producer Excerpt from the quartet's latest cd "so Far so Close", to be released in February 2023 under the label Cypres. The quartet is represented by Arts-Scène Diffusion https://arts-scene.be/fr/asd-artistes-biographie-Quatuor-Alfama Thanks to Ruben De Gheselle and the MIRY Concert hall in Ghent where this was recorded in september 2022.

Alice Van Leuven - violin Işıl Bengi - piano Terre Natale/Thuisland/Homeland What links a composer to their homeland? The duo Alisil explores the feeling of belonging to a culture, to a land, to a history. Nostalgia and exuberant romantic melodies mingle with rhythmic folk dances; it's music that comes from the heart and goes straight to the heart, drawing the audience into the composer's world. An emotional journey that starts from Federico Mompou's Spain and continues to Ahmet Adnan Saygun's Turkey, passing through Bedřich Smetana's Bohemia, the Baltic region of our contemporary Pēteris Vasks, and the Balkans with Georges Enesco. The music sometimes depicts the landscape and nature of these regions, sometimes the folklore of its inhabitants. It's an immersion into each particular culture that doesn't require speaking the language, as it appeals to the universal language of music, which is simultaneously so specific to each composer. F. Mompou - Pastoral (issu de Deux Mélodies), Lento B. Smetana - Z Domoviny (From de Homeland) A. A. Saygun - Demet Suite op. 33 C. Franck - Mélancolie P. Vasks - Mazā vasaras mūzika (Little Summer Music) G. Enesco - Troisième sonate pour violon et piano op. 25 Contact: alicevanleuven@hotmail.com

Violin: Alice Van Leuven Piano: Katsura Mizumoto Live recording @Toots studio from VRT (Flemish television) for the project "De Twintigers" from radio Klara.

violin: Alice Van Leuven piano: Katsura Mizumoto

Concert recording from the Henri Le Boeuf Hall in Bozar Brussels - 21/06/2020 Trio Aries: Alice Van Leuven (violin), Paul Heyman (cello), Wouter Valvekens (piano) Produced by VRT

With the ‘Festivals for Compassion’ event, European festivals show solidarity with anyone who had to suffer from the COVID-19 situation. Frederik Neyrinck was commissioned to write eight variations on the Medieval ‘Danse de Cleves’. These are versions composed for accordion, cello, electric guitar, woodwind… Klarafestival invited violinist Alice Van Leuven. More info on www.festivalsforcompassion.be