Pierre Van Dormael left us on Wednesday, September 3rd 2008.
The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 9th 2008 in the Sint-Joseph church in Waterloo at 11.00 am.
Born May 24th 1952, a choir singer and chamber orchestra violinist as
a child, then folk singer-guitarist at 15, I studied at Berklee (arranging-composition) at 19, became a session guitarist (on many million albums)
in the 70's, hit-song writer and avant-garde guitarist in the 80's, film composer -
music theorist - teacher (and student) in Africa in the 90's, and may be musician
in this decade (or next life). My music has been recorded by such wonderful
musicians as Frank Foster and Freddy Green with the Count Basie Orchestra, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Byard Lancaster, Deborah Brown, Toots Thielemans, Lizz Wright. and I played in concert with Philip Catherine, Reggie Washington, Slide Hampton, Bill Frisell, Billy Hart, Bob Stewart, Soriba Kouyate, Greg Osby, David Gilmore, Marc Ducret,
Magic Malik. also invited to contribute to my friends' records (Tribu, Thôt, and
wrote "North Country Suite" for Octurn / cd: De Werf 2007).
