Dream House Quartet

Piano: Katia Labèque

Piano: Marielle Labèque

Guitar: Bryce Dessner

Voice, guitar, and electronics: David Chalmin

Sound mix: Dan Bora

Associate producer and tour manager: Sami Pyne

North American premiere tour produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Pianos by Steinway & Sons.

Special thanks to Josephine Ridge, Max Rubino and the amazing team at TO Live, Vivian Chiu and Steinway Pianos, Gill Graham, Samantha Holderness, The Kitchen, Rachel Fine, Jennifer Newman and Yale Schwarzman Center, Shanta Thake, Guillaume Loubère, Paschalis Zervas, Melay Araya, Deutsche Grammophon, and the team at Unison Media.

Bryce Dessner compositions performed by special arrangement with Chester Music Ltd.

Philip Glass composition performed by special arrangement with Dungaven/Chester Music Ltd.

Meredith Monk composition is performed by special arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes.

Katia and Marielle Labèque Piano

Katia and Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music), and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.

They have played with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Filarmonia della Scala, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

For their own label KML recordings, they have released an album called Sisters (2014). Previous releases include a Gershwin-Bernstein album, and their project Minimalist Dream House, which chronicles 50 years of minimalist music. The DVD The Labèque Way, a letter to Katia and Marielle by Alessandro Baricco produced by El Deseo (Pedro and Augustin Almodovar) and filmed by Felix Cabez is released by EuroArts. Their biography, Une vie a quatre mains by Renaud Machart is published by Buchet-Chastel.

Bryce Dessner is one of the most sought-after composers of his generation, with a rapidly expanding Catalogue of works commissioned by leading ensembles. Known to many as a guitarist with The National, he is also active as a curator—a vital force in the flourishing realm of new creative music.

His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. He has worked with some of the world’s most creative and respected musicians and visual artists, including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Johnny Greenwood, Justin Peck,

David Chalmin

Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Matthew Ritchie, among others. His work “Murder Ballads,” featured on eighth blackbird’s album Filament—an album he also produced and performs on—won the 2016 Grammy Award for best chamber music/small ensemble performance. Along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, Dessner composed music for Oscar Award-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu’s film The Revenant, which received a 2016 Golden Globes nomination for best original score.

Born in Chambéry, France, in 1980, David Chalmin is a composer, producer, sound engineer, and musician. He grew up in a strongly musical environment and after some years of piano studies, he began playing the electric guitar at the age of 14. His various collaborations extend from classical music to avant-garde. He was composer in residency at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes for the seasons 18/19 and 19/20 and was recently commissioned by the Foundation Singer Polignac.

He is a member of Triple Sun together with Massimo Pupillo and Raphaël Séguinier. Their first album, The City Lies in Ruins, was released by Consouling Sounds in May 2016. Together with Katia Labéque, they have a project called Moondog that premiered in Nuits de Fourvière (Lyon) with dancers Marie-Agnès Gillot, Yaman Okur, and Stephane Deheselle.

David’s ballet Star-Cross’d Lovers was premiered at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. This original composition for pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque, electric guitar, and drums is based on the Shakespearean drama Romeo & Juliet with a choreography for seven dancers by worldrenowned break-dancer Yaman Okur. In 2013, he teamed up with Raphaël Séguinier to create the rock duet UBUNOIR.

David created his own studio in the centre of Paris in 2009 (Studio K) where he does most of his productions. Since 2012, he also manages the Studio KML created by Katia and Marielle Labèque in Rome, Italy. He has written the original music for Madonna’s short film Her Story, and his most recent engineer/producer credits include Shannon Wright, The National, Gaspar Claus, Pedro Soler, Angélique Ionatos, Antoine Sahler, and François Morel.

Bora Sound Mix

Dan Bora is a designer, producer, and engineer for albums, film scores, and live sound. He has worked with Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, The Magnetic Fields, Nico Mühly, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and many others. His credits include Academy Award-winning Fog of War as well as the revival of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. Dan’s live work has been praised as “deft,” “provocative and even poignant…” (The New York Times).

Sami Pyne is the associate producer at ArKtype, one of the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. She is also an NYC-based independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the production process for creators. Sami’s had the pleasure of working with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon’s Sophia Club, The Martin E. Segal Center, Signature Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Play Company (PlayCo), The Tank, The New Ohio, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center. She holds a BFA from Shenandoah Conservatory and is a graduate of the Columbia University theatre management and producing MFA program. Sami is the operations committee leader of the Creative & Independent Producers Alliance and a fellow of WP Theater’s 2022-2024 producers lab.

Thomas O. Kriegsmann specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell, and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways, nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds with JD Samson, Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron Mitchell’s “The Origin of Love”, Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers’ Cartography, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail

Baryshnikov’s Man In a Case, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not By Bread Alone. Ongoing collaborations include, 600 Highwaymen, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, and Compagnia T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Justin Peck & Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois, 600 Highwaymen’s The Following Evening, Timothy White Eagle’s Indian School, and Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present. He is a founding member of CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance).