Hello dear friends!

We are DRE, an ensemble consisting of classical guitar, violin, double bass and percussion that's trying to bring a classical music program with a twist. We arrange classical guitar repertoire for our own setting. We have a huge obsession with the late French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens whose music we are currently playing. We would love to record this program on a CD and be able to share it with everyone!

DRE started out in 2017 as the graduation project of our guitarist Ine Clerckx. For her research, she explored different ways of bringing a classical music program to a modern day audience. In this context, DRE as an ensemble was formed - with Lucas Heytens for percussion, Reinout Pauwels for violin and Daniele Giampaolo for double bass - to do just that: bring a classical music program in a way that is appealing for as many different types of audiences as possible! For this first project, we already arranged some pieces by Roland Dyens, but we didn't have a full program yet at the time. Now we do and we want to bring this program to you!

The reason why we are so obsessed with Roland Dyens' music, is twofold. The first reason is because this music is so versatile. There are influences of Jazz in there, but also of Brazilian music and the French Chanson, but the classical core is still very much noticeable. The other reason is because most of it is based on improvisation, witch makes it incredibly nice to work and explore options with. We also try to implement as much improvisation in our arrangements as possible.

In short: we absolutely love this music and we want to share it with as many people as possible. As much for our own sake as for the sake of getting people to know and love the music of Roland Dyens as we do!

Yours truly,
DRE

a CD for DRE!