Archipel Tom Bourgeois & Léna Kollmeier

• 1 Archipel 1 04:11
• 2 Dance 05:00
• 3 Glissements 01:30
• 4 Jeff 4 03:07
• 5 Peyolt 04:50
• 6 Archipel 3 05:48
• 7 Jabrokob 02:56
• 8 Archipel 2 04:14
• 9 3 Haikus 03:45
• 10 Jeff 5 02:41
• Total Runtime 38:02

Info for Archipel

“Archipel” is a set of pieces for piano composed by Tom Bourgeois and interpreted by Léna Kollmeier. After their first collaboration, the two musicians continue their research around the solo repertoire. If the previous set “September” focused on short forms, here the subject is more stretched, more dense. “Archipel” is a name given to a few pieces of this new opus, made of small interconnected stories; like islands, each with its own story but always linked to the others.

“Archipel” est un ensemble de pièces pour piano composé par Tom Bourgeois et interprété par Léna Kollmeier. Forts de leur première collaboration, les deux musiciens continuent leur recherche autour du répertoire solo.


Si l’ensemble précédent “septembre” se concentrait sur les formes courtes, ici le propos est plus étiré, plus dense.


“Archipel” est un nom donné à quelques pièces de ce nouveau recueil, fait de petites histoires interconnectées ; telles des îles, chacune avec sa propre histoire mais toujours reliée aux autres.

Tom Bourgeois, saxophone
Lena Kollmeier, piano

Tom Bourgeois
is a versatile composer and saxophone player. He studied at the ENM of Villeurbanne and at the Brussels Royal Conservatory where he was graduated. Finding his inspiration in the European modern jazz, he cultivates his own language somewhere between classical music and contemporary music. Always attracted by the meeting of disciplines, he has found in 2013 the band “Canopée” (the combination of jazz, rock and poetry). As many as he composes for the Theater such as “5 Carnets” by Bernard Sultan (Compagnie l’Emporte-pièces, Paris).

His compositions are full of imagery, his sense of writing is marked by a truly cinematic vision. Since five years, he has been working with the filmmaker Maxime Coton for who he has written many films music for several movies like : « La mécanique des corps » in 2011, « À l’oeuvre » in 2012, « Enfants des pierres » in 2013, « Le Soldat Inconnu » in 2014 and « Petite histoire avant d’aller se coucher » in 2015. He is also used to work with some film makers from l’Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD), for instance, he has composed the music for Camille Sultan, Camille Mol and Louise Dendraën’s short films.

In 2014, he won the « XI jazz Contest 2014 » with the band Geoffrey Fiorese Quintet. Lately Tom Bourgeois recorded his famous pieces for piano solo « Septembre » which were released in 2016 on Prova Records. He can be found performing and recording with a lot of international musicians and bands from the duo to the Big Band with whom he was honoured to tour abroad in Hungary as much as in China.

Lena Kollmeier
Belgian pianist, mastered her instrument remarkably well at an early age. This naturally led her to being accepted as a young talent by Liège Conservatoire, at the age of 15. She obtained her Master of Arts in piano with honours from Brussels Conservatoire after having studied with teachers such as Daniel Blumenthal, Pierre Thomas and Etienne Rappe. She has also actively participated masterclasses taught by Dominique Cornil, Natacha Zdobnova, Dana Protopopescu and Boyan Vodenitcharov.

At the age of 17, she won First Prize at the Dexia Classics Competition and performed a recital in the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels which marked the beginning of her career. She soon had the pleasure of performing with various orchestras, and has appeared as a soloist and chamber music specialist on the international stage – namely in Europe, the US, Thailand and the Caribbean in prestigious venues like the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Luxembourg, El Ateneo in Madrid and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo.

Léna Kollmeier is co-founder of two chamber music ensembles: the DUO ROSA, together with soprano Stephany Ortega since 2014, and the Trio O3, specialized in the contemporary repertoire formed with cellist Eugénie Defraigne and flutist Lydie Thonnard.

The duo launched their first album « Return » in 2016 in the Philharmonie Luxembourg, under the label Etcetera Records. They followed up on their release with a promotional tour - Return World Tour - across 18 cities around the world. In 2019, the duo released their second album « American Soul : from Broadway to Paris » (Hänssler Classic) which has been nominated by the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2020.

In 2018, the Trio O3 won the « Supernova » competition and allowed them to go on tour to several Belgian festivals and concert halls, especially Flagey in Brussels and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. Léna also has a piano duo with her sister Louise Kollmeier. In 2019, the Kollmeier Sisters won a second prize at the international competition « Grand Prize Virtuoso » and performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for the occasion.

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