Leo Svirsky is a pianist, composer, and accordionist currently based in
the Hague. He is active in new and improvised music scenes, as well as
interpreting the standard piano repertoire. He has premiered new works
by composers such as Michael Pisaro, Peter Adriaansz, Cornelis de
Bondt, David Pocknee, Maya Verlaak, and Robert Blatt, and appeared with
the Wandelweiser composers ensemble, Ensemble MAE, Acid Police, and the
White Noise Orchestra. As an improviser, he has collaborated with among
others, Raoul van der Weide, Onno Govaert, Katt Hernandez, Jaap Blonk,
Anne La Berge, Jasper Stadhouders, Marshall Allen, John Berndt, and
Veryan Weston.
For Sotu he will play songs with an accordion hovering somewhere between psychedelic, apocalyptic folk and
post-reductionist composition, exploring the elusive nexus of the sacred
and the political.
"The accordion is a wind instrument, but also a keyboard instrument, it has stops, its colours are eminently rich and its two sound sources, as long as they are sounding, are always moving: away from each other, towards each other." -Antoine Beuger
