Charles Loos
Piano - compositions

Charles LOOS was born in Brussels in 1951.
After formal training, he left, in 1972, to study jazz composition and orchestration at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.
Back in Europe, he accompanied numerous soloists : Toots THIELEMANS, Chet BAKER, Philip CATHERINE, Johnny GRIFFIN, MAURANE etc... He also took part in more experimental groups such as “Abraxis” and “Julverne”.
He founded and recorded two albums with the LOOS-LAZAREVITCH International Quintet (with Serge LAZAREVITCH, Riccardo DEL FRA, John RUOCCO).

He usually plays his own compositions, inspired by serious music, folklore as well as jazz of yesterday and today. These various styles have taken him around the world.
In December 1986, together with bassist Philippe AERTS and drummer Félix SIMTAINE, they joined an official delegation to China, where during one week they played in Shanghai, representing Belgian jazz.
Teaching and writing for theatre (“Les poètes du jazz”, “Antigone”, “Salut Lenny”) and ballet (“No Wall No War”, California 1991, available on the B. Sharp label) fill his time.

He received the “Sax Prize” for the best concert of the year 1988.
The “Prize for the Jazz Rallye’s most creative concert” in 1990.
and the “DJANGO D’OR” in 1997.
Charles Loos compositions have in common a certain spacious simplicity and purity.