RUISKAMER: Yasuaki Shimizu / Catharina Evens

Name: RUISKAMER: Yasuaki Shimizu / Catharina Evens — Support: GAME (Joseph Chan)
Start: 2026-11-04T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-04T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Miry Concertzaal

Support: GAME (Joseph Chan)

VIERNULVIER & MIRY Concertzaal

Wed 04.11

19:30 - 22:30

Miry Concertzaal, Gent

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Two adventurous musical worlds come together during this RUISKAMER. Japanese saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, a living legend and cult figure behind the albums ‘Kakashi’ and ‘Utakata No Hibi’, shares the stage with Brussels-based pianist and electronics wizard Catharina Evens. Expect an intimate, curious and multi-layered sonic journey in which saxophone, piano, electronics and improvisation challenge and embrace one another.

Yasuaki Shimizu is a maverick saxophonist, composer and producer whose almost 50-year career spans an impossibly broad range of genres. He is a well-known musical presence in Japan recognised for his crossover pop hits, film soundtrack work and a host of high-profile live commissions, installations and collaborations with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, Van Dyke Parks and David Cunningham. Shimizu's music reached a wider audience in the West following the reissue on Palto Flats of his iconic 1982 solo album Kakashi and his band Mariah’s classic 1983 record Utakata No Hibi – masterful hybrids of Japanese folk and pop idioms filtered via a honed electronic/disco production aesthetic that make them sound fresher than ever today.

Shimizu embarked on his first North American tour in 2025, selling out every show. Don’t miss his stop at RUISKAMER, to witness his ever-evolving artistry.

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Catharina Evens (b. 1997, Brussels) is a Belgian experimental electro-acoustic pianist who seeks to explore an alternative sonic palette for the acoustic piano. She achieves this, in part, by manipulating acoustic sounds live using electronics, amplifying them and allowing them to resonate through the piano’s entire soundboard and strings. The typical piano sound, which we usually associate with the acoustic piano, fades away, making way for a unique sonic universe whose various musical possibilities she further explores through improvisation and composition.

Using granular textures, playful capriciousness, compelling pianistic passages, naive phrases, percussive accents, piano preparations, rhythmic sequences and exploring the space between different musical genres, Catharina creates her own absurd world of sound, full of narrative fragments.

About GAME x Joseph Chan

Joseph Chan is a Hong Kong-born violist whose artistic curiosity deeply engages him in contemporary repertoire and multi-disciplinary art projects. He has worked with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann and Pierluigi Billone. Performing actively across solo, chamber music, and orchestral settings, he has performed as a group player with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and the Rosas dance company. His international footprint spans across Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and Hong Kong. He has performed in major concert halls such as BOZAR, Flagey, deSingel, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Vienna, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and the Hong Kong City Hall. Rooted in his training at both the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, He remains dedicated to exploring a dynamic range of classical, contemporary, and cross-disciplinary repertoires.