Collaborating Artists

Frank Krawczyk (composer)

Born in a family of self-taught musicians, Franck Krawczyk follows a classical training in Paris and Lyon with Gilbert Amy, where he now teaches chamber music with Jacques Aboulker (CNSMD).
Very soon, the Festival d’Automne encourages him to develop an activity as a composer. Many of his works have been awarded.
Then, there are strong encounters and friendships –(Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Laurence Equilbey) –that encourage him to deepen the relationship between music and other art disciplines. These become more direct, more free and more unpredictable.

His last collaborations are Polvere, a cello concerto with S. Wieder-Atherton for Monumenta 2010-Christian Boltanski, Une Flûte enchantée after Mozart with P. Brook and M.H. Estienne, Passione in Due after Bach with E. Greco and P. C. Scholten.

For Emio Greco | PC’s creation [purgatorio] IN VISIONE Frank Krawczyk has re-interpreted Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for strings, wind and accordion. In 2011 he collaborated with the company for the creation they made together with the Amsterdam Orgelpark,  Double Points: Orgel. In 2012 their collaboration continues with the performance Passione in Due.

Hanspeter Kyburz (composer)

Swiss composer Hanspeter Kyburz was born in 1960 in Lagos, Nigeria. In 1980 he began studying composition with Alexandra Dobrowlsky and Gösta Neuwirth in Graz. From 1982 to 1990, he studied with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the Berlin Akademie der Kuenste, then with Hans Zender in Frankfort from 1990 to 1993. In 1990, he
received the Boris Blacher Prize, a scholarship to study at the Cité International des Arts in Paris, and began working with the Insel-Musik-Konzerte in Berlin. The following year, he obtained his Master’s Degree in Musicology, Philosophy, and Art History. He has won several music awards including the Schneider-Schott Prize (1994), the Encouragement Prize from the Berlin Akademie der Kuenste (1996), and a prize from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation (2000).

His work has been performed by some of today's leading international musical ensembles such as Klangforum, l'Ensemble Contrechamps, l'Ensemble Intercontemporain, Musikfabrik, l'Ensemble Modern, l'Ensemble Recherche, the Ensemble für Neue Musik, le Quatuor Camerata, and the Ensemble United Berlin at the Berlin Biennial, at the Wiener Festwochen, as well as in Witten and Donaueschingen.
Hanspeter Kyburz has taught at several electroacoustic studios in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Kyburz taught at the Basler Komponistenwoche in 1996 and at the Musikhochschule in Basel (2000 to 2002). Since 1997, he has been working as a composition professor at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin.

Kyburz started his collaboration with Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten in 2004 with the research performance Double Points: +, a continuing project that resulted in a new version of Double Points: + in 2005 and in a totally new production - Double Points: ΟΥΤΙΣ - in 2011.

Clifford Portier (costume designer)

Dutch fashion designer Clifford Portier (1966) graduated from the Fashion Academy Charles Montaigne, Amsterdam. After his studies, Clifford moved to Milan. He specialises in men’s fashion and has worked as a designer and concept designer for various international fashion brands, including Mexx and Falke. At the same time he continues to look for new forms. His passion for contemporary dance resulted in a special partnership with the internationally acclaimed dance company Emio Greco | PC. It led to a new approach to what a dress can mean. The design does not only cover the body, but also reveals a life of its own. His ingenious design has meanwhile become the hallmark of the company.

The urge to make a translation to couture prompted him to develop his own line in 2009. In MAISON PORTIER, based in Amsterdam, his craftsmanship and creative mind come together. The technique whereby he draws his designs straight onto the pattern without first putting a sketch or drawing onto paper is extraordinary. The result is an unparalleled finesse, which pairs simplicity to precision.

Joost Rekveld (projections)

Joost Rekveld creates abstract films and kinetic installations inspired by the ancient idea of making visual music for the eye. He graduated from The Interfaculty Image and Sound of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1994 where he now teaches experimental film. Rekveld is currently involved in setting up the Veenfabriek, a new ensemble exploring the link between theatre, music and the visual arts. Rekveld created the projections for the Double Points: Two performance of the Nederlands Dans Theater in 2003, for Orfeo ed Euridice in 2004 and for [purgatorio] IN VISIONE and [purgatorio] POPOPERA in 2008.

Isabelle Vigier – (art director)

Since she graduated from College of Arts, Angouleme, France, in Graphic Design and in Visual Arts (Photography), Isabelle has been active in both fields. Living and working first in Paris, she was an art director for publishing departments in advertising companies, where she acquired experience in dealing with the production of large projects and art direction for up-market brands such as Cartier, Baume & Mercier, Caron, Dior, a.o. She based herself in Amsterdam in 1995, where she has become a freelance artist doing art direction and design for Dutch based organisations such as music label Ramboy or dance company Magpie and Dutch or international publishers (de Balie, Meulenhoff, Contact, Tema, Hachette a.o.). For the last few years she has been involved with the conceptualizing and editing of publications, in addition to serving as art director (de Veenfabriek, Emio Greco | PC). She is a co-founder of the music label Unsounds.

Isabelle Vigier has been collaborating with ICK in several ways over the past years, mainly as art director of the magazines that were published next to Emio Greco | PC's performances HELL, [purgatorio] POPOPERA and IN VISIONE and you PARA | DISO.

Minsuk Cho (architect)

Minsuk Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied at the Architectural Engineering Department of Yonsei University (Seoul) and at the Graduate School of Architecture at Colombia University (New York). He began his professional career with various organisations in New York and later moved to the Netherlands to work with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).Through this variety of jobs he acquired experience in a wide range of architectural and urban projects carried out in different places around the world.In 2003 he returned to South Korea to set up his own company, Mass Studies. Cho was awarded several prizes for his work.

In April 2009 he developed the set for Emio Greco | PC’s production BEYOND Seoul, which premièred in Seoul on 10 April 2009. His second collaboration with Emio Greco | PC was for the performance you PARA | DISO, for which, once again, he developed the set.