Bryce Dessner @ Ars Musica Festival

Dessner is a vital and rare force in new music. He has won Grammy Awards as a classical composer and with the band The National, of which he is founding member, guitarist, arranger, and co-principal songwriter. He is regularly commissioned to write for the world’s leading ensembles, from Orchestre de Paris to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and is a high-profile presence in film score composition, with credits including The Revenant, for which he was Grammy and Golden Globe nominated, Fernando Mereilles’s The Two Popes and Mike Mill’s C’mon C’mon.

 

Dessner collaborates with some of today’s most creative and respected artists, including Philip Glass, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Sufjan Stevens, Thom Yorke, Nico Muhly and Steve Reich, who named Dessner “a major voice of his generation.” Dessner’s orchestrations can be heard on the latest albums of Paul Simon, Bon Iver and Taylor Swift.

Unusual Suspects is involved in Bryce’s artist in residence programme during Ars Musica Festival at BOZAR, Brussels which will show his multifaceted talents as creator and performer to the full. The program includes performances with Brussels Philharmonic, Dream House Quartet a.o.