The Vibrations ensemble was founded in 2015 under the impetus of Pascale Simon. It brings together seven flutists from different backgrounds, but with one common desire: to set out on a discovery journey for a repertoire that is as varied as it is unique and innovative.
To achieve this, the ensemble continuously explores three major musical genres:
- Contemporary music
- Baroque music
- Jazz and traditional music
Over the years, Vibrations has been lucky enough to collaborate with Belgian and French composers such as David Achenberg (ongoing in 2024: premiere of Tango Pastel), Jean-Marie Rens (2023: premiere of Traces II), Pierre Bartholomée (2023: premiere of Petit concert à 7), Christian Dachez (2023: premiere of Arcs de Ciel), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (2019: premiere of Aurore) and Arnould Massart (12 Petits Mystères).
Vibrations also serves as a kind of creative laboratory for one of its members, Eric Leleux, who regularly creates original arrangements of Baroque and Renaissance works (Buxtehude, Bach, Telemann, Parsons).
Finally, the ensemble draws on its own creativity to collectively revisit traditional and jazz pieces, thereby highlighting the richness in expression of the transverse flute and transcending certain stylistic preconceptions associated with the instrument.
A first album, entitled ‘Strange Meeting’, was released in April 2019 on the Homerecords label. It offers a musical journey combining the three different genres of the ensemble’s repertoire. A second album was released in September 2022, this time on the Et'cetera Records label, devoted to the complete Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann – arranged for flute quartet by Eric Leleux.
Since its creation, the Vibrations ensemble has performed some forty times both in Frenchspeaking Belgium and in France, among others in venues such as the Musée des Instruments de Musique in Brussels, the Espace Senghor in Etterbeek and the Théâtre Royal in Namur.
The members of the Vibrations ensemble are Fabien Bogaert, Myriam Graulus, Philippe Laloy, Eric Leleux, Audrey Ribaucourt, Pascale Simon, and Lydie Thonnard.
"Their concerts are the proof of this fascinating journey on which each musician's skillset is put to the benefit of the group; from the subtle articulations of ancient music to the asymmetric rhythms of eastern European tradition music, by way of the abrupt ruptures of contemporary music; the fluid choreography of bodies and flutes is confirmation of the success of the project." Serge Clément