Alain Craens

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The music of Alain Craens is difficult to categorise, being sometimes tonal and sometimes atonal or 'freely tonal'. His music often shows characteristics of impressionism, minimal music or jazz. It is above all intended to be accessible. After the complexities of modernism, in which experimentation took the central place, Craens believes that it is time to rebuild to a normal relationship with the public. Music should be allowed simply to be 'beautiful' again, without all kinds of innovative ulterior motives. In order to achieve this, he has returned to the traditional triad which, however, he does not approach functionally or tonally. One sometimes has the impression that certain tonalities or tonal centres are suggested, but this is not Craens' intention: he works with coincidental, consonant encounters between sounds and sets out to work towards points of support. In this way, he means to build a bridge between his own individual expression and the audience. Biography Alain Craens was born on 17 May 1957 in Kapellen. He showed a predilection for music early on, and took his higher secondary education at the Arts High School in Antwerp. He later continued his studies at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in the same city. There he studied oboe, English horn, chamber music, analysis and form (with August Verbesselt), as well as harmony and composition (with Willem Kersters). He earned his diplomas in fugue and counterpoint with Rafaël D'Haene at the Brussels Conservatory. Crae

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