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Jacques Israelievitch, violin with
special guests Christina Petrowska-Quilico, piano and Winona
Zelenka, cello
Friday May 4 at 8 pm
$25; $20 seniors; $10 students
Programme:
Compositions for violin and piano by Oskar Morawetz, James
Rolfe and Gary Kulesha
Intermission
Mozart C Major Trio
Kodaly Duo for violin and cello.
Bios
Jacques Israelievitch
Internationally renowned violinist Jacques Israelievitch
has enjoyed an exciting and varied career as concertmaster,
soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and conductor. After making
his debut on French National Radio at the age of eleven, Mr.
Israelievitch went on to graduate from the Paris Conservatory
at sixteen and was subsequently prizewinner at the International
Paganini Competition. His teachers include Henryk Szeryng,
Janos Starker, William Primrose, and Josef Gingold.
Mr. Israelievitch served as Concertmaster of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra for a record-setting twenty years, and
was formerly Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra for six years and Concertmaster of the Saint Louis
Symphony Orchestra for ten years. He teaches and performs
each summer at the Chautauqua Institution and is a faculty
member at the University of Toronto and York University. In
growing demand as a conductor, he has been Music Director
of the Koffler Chamber Orchestra since 2005.
As a soloist, Mr. Israelievitch has collaborated with Solti,
Giulini, Slatkin, Davis, and Frühbeck de Burgos, appearing
with many of the world’s major orchestras. As a distinguished
chamber musician, he has performed with Emanuel Ax, Yefim
Bronfman, and Yo-Yo Ma. He is violinist for the New Arts Trio.
Mr. Israelievitch’s discography features more than 100
albums including the Juno Award nominated Suite Hebraique
and the first-ever complete recording of Kreutzer’s
42 Studies for Solo Violin. He has premiered and recorded
several concertos such as R. Murray Schafer’s The Darkly
Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveler.
In 2004, the French government named Mr. Israelievitch Officer
of the Order of Arts and Letters. He is also the recipient
of a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished contribution
to the performing arts in Canada.
Christina Petrowska Quilico
One of Canada’s foremost pianists, Christina Petrowska
Quilico is widely recognized as an innovative and adventurous
artist and a leading champion of the music of our time. She
has made her mark as a brilliant interpreter of contemporary
classical music. Much in demand, she has premiered more than
100 new works, many written especially for her, and premiered
16 piano concerti. A prolific recording artist, having recorded
26 CDs of classical, romantic and new music, she was awarded
The 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award by the Canadian Music
Centre and the Canadian League of Composers. A national jury
recognized Christina Petrowska Quilico “for her dedication
to Canadian contemporary classical music as well as her unwavering
support of this country’s composing community. Throughout
her exceptional performing and recording career, Christina
Petrowska Quilico has had a profound impact on Canada’s
classical music community from coast to coast.”
Over the course of her career, Petrowska Quilico has collaborated
with a long list of eminent international and Canadian composers,
including Violet Archer, Pierre Boulez, Glenn Buhr, John Cage,
Christos Hatzis, Lowell Liebermann, György Ligeti, Alexina
Louie, R. Murray Schafer, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luis de Pablo,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Claude Vivier and John Weinzweig. She
has performed with most new music groups and chamber ensembles
in Canada. Her concert tours, both as a soloist and with her
late husband, the legendary Metropolitan Opera baritone Louis
Quilico, have taken her across four continents. On the recital
stage, her appearances include such prestigious New York City
venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully
Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall. Tours have taken her to Taiwan,
the Middle East, France, Greece, Germany and Ukraine, and
throughout the United States. She is heard regularly on Canadian,
American and European radio stations.
Christina Petrowska Quilico has performed with such leading
orchestras as the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Centre
Orchestra, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony,
Taipei Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony, and the Greek Radio Orchestra,
and worked with conductors John Eliot Gardiner, Jukka Pekka
Saraste, Bramwell Tovey, Alex Pauk, Victor Feldbrill, Boris
Brott, Geoffrey Moull, Walter Boudreau, Serge Garant, and
others. She has premiered and performed concerti written for
her by Steven Gellman, Heather Schmidt, Larysa Kuzmenko, Ted
Dawson, David Mott and Alexina Louie, Glenn Buhr, Michael
Matthews, George Fiala, Simon Bainbridge, George Koumendakis
and Claudio Ambrosini. She has also performed two concerti
by Violet Archer, the harpsichord concerto by Murray Schafer
and the first piano concerto by Luis de Pablo who dedicated
his 2nd piano concerto to her.
She made her debut with orchestra at age10 when she performed
the Haydn D major Piano Concerto with the Conservatory Orchestra
in Toronto conducted by Ettore Mazzoleni. She followed this
by a win shared with Murray Perahia and performed a Mozart
piano concerto in Town Hall, New York at age 15. The New York
Times called her a “promethean talent”, and after
subsequent concerts hailed her as “an extraordinary
talent with phenomenal ability… dazzling virtuosity.” She
continued performing classical piano concerti in Canada and
the United States and was a frequent guest on New York and
Canadian radio broadcasts. Some of the repertoire she performed
with orchestra included the Chopin E minor, two Bach concerti,
Haydn and Mozart concerti, Beethoven “Emperor”,
Strauss Burleske, Bartok first, Prokofieff Concertos No. 1,2
and 3, the Grieg, the Healey Willan and Gershwin’s Rhapsody
in Blue, to name a few.
www.petrowskaquilico.com
Winona Zelenka, cello
Photo credit: David Leyes
Winona Zelenka, known for her gorgeous, singing tone, is
one of Canada’s finest cellists on the scene today. As
a soloist, she has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
(Strauss’ Don Quixote Suite, with Thomas Dausgaard
conducting, 2006), and performs often with conductor John
Barnum. Their past collaborations include Lalo’s Cello
Concerto in D Minor with the Mississauga Symphony (2008)
and Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1, with both
the Scarborough Philharmonic (2007) and the Huronia Sinfonietta
(2006). She has also performed Haydn’s Concerto No.
2 in D Major with the Canadian Sinfonietta (2007), conducted
by Tak Ng Lai. At this same concert, Ms. Zelenka, a proponent
of new music, performed the world premiere of “Invocation
II’” for cello and orchestra, a work written
for her by Canadian composer Michael Pepa. In 2008, Ms.
Zelenka performed as guest Principal Cellist for the Canadian
Opera Company’s production of Tosca. She has been
Assistant Principal of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra since
2005, and served as Principal during the summers of 2007
and 2008. She is currently serving as Acting Principal of
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has held that position
since the 2004/2005 season.
Winona is a dedicated recitalist and chamber musician, who
regularly performs on the Les AMIS, Syrinx, Amici, Art of
Time and Offcentre series in Toronto. She collaborates regularly
with many of Canada’s finest musicians including violinists
Stephen Sitarski and Erika Raum; violist Steven Dann; bassist
Joel Quarrington, pianist Andrew Burashko, and countless others.
This summer ( 2009) she performed at the Ottawa Chamberfest
with, among others, soprano Donna Brown and pianist/composer
Heather Schmidt. The 2009/2010 season sees Winona performing
with the Zuckerman ChamberPlayers at the Royal Conservatory’s
new Koerner Hall as well as at the 92nd St. Y in New York.
Ms. Zelenka recently formed Trio Arkel with violinist Marie
Bérard and violist Teng Li, with whom she will perform
at the Four Seasons Amphitheatre in February of 2010. She
will also be performing at the Amphitheatre with long-time
duo partner Jacques Israelievitch in December 2009. In the
2009/2010 season, Ms. Zelenka is very pleased to work with
Mr. Pepa again, who will compose a work for cello, violin
and percussion for his Les AMIS series in Toronto.
Since the
summer of 2004, Ms. Zelenka began performing in the Music
Garden Series at Toronto’s waterfront. Every
year, she has performed a different Bach cello suite. In 2006,
she performed Canadian composer Chris Paul Harman’s “After
the Sixth Suite”, also a composition written for her,
which, as the title suggests, she performed in tandem with
Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6. For her performance of the
Suite No. 4 in September of 2009 she was joined by dancer
Claudia Moore who added beautiful movements choreographed
by Carol Anderson. Winona was also the cello soloist of such
notable film scores as Atom Egoyan’s “Adoration” (2008),
István Szabó’s “Being Julia” (2004),
and the IMAX film “Under The Sea” (2009).
Exciting new projects include the recently-released films
in HD of the Suite for Solo Cello by Gaspar Cassado, filmed
by Moving Head Productions and available on Youtube. Winona
will also be releasing the complete Bach Cello Suites in the
spring of 2010; all projects are recorded by CBC recording
engineer Ron Searles , whose credits include I Furiosi and
the Eybler Quartet as well as film scores by Mychael Danna
and Andrew Lockington.
Winona Zelenka began her career at age 22 as Associate Principal
in the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and won orchestra
jobs with the National Ballet Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra
in Manchester. She obtained her Bachelor of Music and Artist
Diploma at the University of Indiana, and studied with the
legendary Janos Starker. Ontario born and raised, Ms. Zelenka’s
other main teachers include William Findlay, Vladimir Orloff,
and William Pleeth.
Winona plays on the “Starker Guanerius”,
which was made in 1707 by Giuseppe Guarneri, the father of
the legendary “Guanerius
del Gesù”. This instrument, formerly owned by
Janos Starker for 30 years, is on loan to the TSO for Ms.
Zelenka’s use thanks to the generosity of Dr. Edward
Pong.
www.winonazelenka.com
Mike Downes’ In the Current Jazz
Ensemble
(7 horns and rhythm section)
A Toronto Downtown Jazz Special Project
Wednesday May 9 at 8 PM
$20 adults; $15 seniors; $10 students
Kelly Jefferson – saxes, Colleen Allen – saxes/woodwinds,
Shirantha Beddage – saxes/woodwinds, Jon Challoner – trumpet,
James MacDonald – French horn, Jay Burr – tuba,
Kelsley Grant – trombone, Mark Kelso –drums, Brian
Dickinson – piano, Ted Quinlan – guitar, Mike
Downes – bass/composer
In the Current was honoured to be chosen as one of three
TDJ Special Projects for 2012. The music is a unique convergence
of jazz and contemporary classical music, drawing on influences
such as Gil Evans, Bela Bartok and Miles Davis’ Birth
of the Cool recording. This stellar cast of Toronto musicians
promises to deliver an unforgettable night of music!
Program
In the Current Suite – originally composed as part of
a master’s thesis at York University, the suite is in
5 parts – In the Current, Parallel Streams, Re-emerging
Linear Tones (an anagram based on Gil Evans’ birth name
Ian Ernest Gilmore Green), Still Waters Run Deep and Re:currents.
The ensemble will also premiere new works Bell Park, Soleil
Couchant, Elation, Smoky, Whisper and a special arrangement
of Boplicity/Miles Ahead.
Mike Downes
"Mike’s time playing is delightfully inventive
and his intonation is absolutely impeccable…his lines
are clear, hip, and agile. His technique and intonation are
extraordinary.” Kim Richmond, Jazz Player
“Mike Downes is as gifted a composer as he is a bassist.” Chris
Kosky, International Society of Bassists
Mike Downes began playing bass at the age of eight, inspired
by his bass-playing father. He studied bass, piano and trombone
and began performing in Winnipeg as a teenager. He has been
active as a bassist, composer, arranger and educator in the
Canadian music scene since the early 1980s.
He has performed worldwide, including tours throughout Europe,
Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Iceland, the United States
and Canada. In addition to leading his own groups, Mike has
performed with virtually all of Canada's top jazz musicians,
including Oliver Jones, Diana Krall, PJ Perry, Renee Rosnes,
Don Thompson, Kirk MacDonald, Terry Clarke, Guido Basso and
Pat LaBarbera. He has been in demand to perform with visiting
jazz artists such as Chris Potter, Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie,
Peter Erskine, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Paquito D'Rivera,
Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Phil Woods and many others.
His large discography includes Juno-nominated and Juno-winning
CDs. He has released three recordings as a leader - Forces,
Then and The Winds of Change. Mike is the Bass Department
Head at Humber College in Toronto. He has also been featured
as a Yamaha artist/clinician throughout Canada, at the Paekche
Institute in Seoul, South Korea and the infamous Conservatoire
de Paris.
mikedownes.com
A Recital of Art Songs by Philippe
Sly, bass-baritone
and Anne Larlee, piano
Thursday May 10 at 8:30 pm
Pay What You Can
Programme
Henri DUPARC (1848 - 1943)
Chanson Triste (3’)
Phidylé (5’)
Maurice RAVEL (1875 - 1937)
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée
I.Chanson romanesque (2’)
II.Chanson épique (3’)
III. Chanson à boire (2’)
Guy ROPARTZ (1864 - 1955)
Quatre poèmes d’apres l’Intermezzo de Heine
Prélude (3’)
I. (2.15’)
II. (3.30’)
III. (2’)
IV (2.10’)
Postlude (1.10’)
Pause
Jonathan DOVE (1959-)
Three Tennyson Songs
I. Swallow, swallow (4.30’)
II. Dark House (3’)
III. The Sailor-Boy (2.30’)
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Gruppe aus demTartarus (3:30’)
Wanderers Nachtlied (5:00’)
Der Tod und das Madchen (2:30’)
Fischerweise (3:00’)
An die Musik (2:30’)
Der Erlkonig
Bios
Canadian Bass-baritone Philippe Sly is a recent graduate of
the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. He recently
won the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions
Competition in 2011 and completed his bachelor of music degree
in voice performance at McGill University’s Schulich
School of Music in Montreal. Philippe is also a recipient
of the Prix Jeune Soliste 2012 des Radios Francophones Publiques
and of the Brian Law Opera Scholarship. Mr. Sly’s recent
performances include Dr. Bartoloin Il Barbiere di Siviglia
with theSan Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program;
Marcello in La Bohème and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s
Progress with Opera McGill. This season with the COC he has
appeared as A Scythian Man in Iphigenia in Tauris, Hermann
in The Tales of Hoffmann and Ser Amantio di Nicolao in Gianni
Schicchi. Philippe will be performing the role of Sitos in
Das Labyrinth in the Salzburg Festival’s 2012 summer
season and will be making his San Francisco Opera debut as
Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in their 2012-2013
season.
In concert Philippe has appeared as a soloist with the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal the Choeur St-Laurent
and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Upcoming engagements
include Handel’s Messiah with L’Orchestre Symphonique
de Trois-Rivieres and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with
the Ottawa Choral Society.
Born in Campbellton,
New Brunswick, Anne Larlee is currently a repetiteur and coach
with the Canadian Opera Company, having already worked for
two successful seasons with the same company as part of the
Ensemble Studio as the intern coach/pianist. Anne completed
her training in the UK where she was an Artist-Fellow and
repetiteur as part of the prestigious Opera Course at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Anne also holds
degrees and diplomas in piano performance from Boston University
and the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice, France
and the University of Windsor, where she was the recipient
of the Board of Governors’ Medal in Music. Anne is also
the recipient of various awards and scholarships, including
most recently the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation.
Anne has held accompanying positions at the Conservatoire
National de Région de Nice, Boston University and the
McGill Conservatory of Music in Montreal. She has appeared
on stages across Canada, the United States, France, Italy
and the United Kingdom including London’s Wigmore Hall.
Anne is in great demand as a collaborative recital partner,
as a repetiteur as well as a vocal coach. Most recent notable
performances include a recital of excerpts from the operas
of John Adams, which won rave reviews from the composer himself,
who was in attendance. She has worked with many acclaimed
singers, including Wendy Nielsen, Adrianne Pieczonka, Phillip
Ens, Alice Coote, Brett Polegato, and Dame Felicity Lott.
Anne is also a regular faculty member of Wendy Nielsen’s
Opera Workshop and Vocal Techniques workshop. Beyond the Canadian
Opera Company, her operatic credits include work with the
Center for Opera Studies in Sulmona, Italy, the British Youth
Opera, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and Aldeburgh Music.
An Evening of Russian Opera
May 12 at 8 pm
General admission:
$20, with special price for first 2 rows: $40.
Programme:
This concert presents a selection of wonderful pieces from
the golden age of Russian opera (19th century). This is wonderful
opportunity to enjoy these timeless masterpieces once again,
or open to yourself the marvellous world of Russian opera.
This selection includes excerpts form Eugene Onegin, The Queen
of Spades and Iolanta by Tchaikovsky; Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky;
The Snow Maiden and The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov; Prince
Igor by Borodin; and Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka.
All pieces are sung in Russian with English
surtitles. There will be one intermission.
Bios:
Luiza Zhuleva, soprano, made her operatic debut in 2006 as
Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) on the stage of Nizhny Novgorod
Rostropovich Philharmonic. Luiza also performed the main roles
in operas Faust (Marguerite), La Serva Padrona (Serpina),
Eugene Onegin (Tatiana) in her native Nizhny Novgorod and
Saint Petersburg. In 2007 after moving to Canada, she was
engaged by Opera In Concert to make her Canadian debut in
the title role of the Snow Maiden and later on she also appeared
as Gorislava on the same stage. Upcoming engagements include
Lucia de Lammermoor with Toronto School of Music, Musetta
with Opera Belcanto and participation in IVAI 2012 summer
program.
Anna Bélikova is a Russian-Canadian contralto, studying
voice under the tutelage of Inna Golsband. Her repertoire
includes the roles of Naïna in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila,
Zita in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Marcelina in Mozart's Le
Nozze di Figaro, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Mother
in The Consul by Menotti. She performed the part of Goffredo
in Rinaldo, Mistress Bentson in Lakmé, Old Baroness
in Vanessa and the part of Bobyliha in The Snow Maiden. She
sang the parts of Giovanna, Countess Ceprano and Page in Opera
York production of Rigoletto, Baba the Turk in The Rake's
progress by Stravinsky. Anna has worked with numerous choirs:
the Black Creek Summer Music Festival, Opera York, Opera in
Concert, Mendelssohn and Orpheus choirs.
Slava Serebrainik is very talented young tenor. Slava won
numerous awards at provincial voice competitions and has performed
the principal role Don Jose in Carmen with Toronto Opera repertoire.
hes repertoire includes roles of Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera
and Gherman in Queen of Spades (both productions with Opera
by Request). He sang part of Rodolfo in La Boheme and Turiddu
in Cavalleria Rusticana with Opera Lyrica Italiana. His upcoming
engagements include Rodolfo (La Boheme), Alfredo (La Traviata)
and Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera) with New Opera in Concert
Centre and Odessa Opera House (Ukraine).
A native of Western Ukraine, Serhiy
Danko was born into
a family with deep musical roots. Family traditions brought
him to the Odessa State Conservatory where he mastered the
art of opera singing. Since the year 2000 Serhiy has been
living in Toronto where he worked with the Canadian Royal
Opera and the New Opera and Concert Centre. His repertoire
includes such operatic roles as: Figaro (The Barber of Seville),
Germont (La Traviata), Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Yeletski (Queen
of Spades), Robert (Iolanta). His repertoire also includes
many songs and romances by world known composers. Upcoming
engagements include Marchello (La Boheme) with New Opera in
Concert Centre.
Solomon Tencer. From an early age Solomon developed a strong
interest in singing and pursued his passion with voice lessons
by famous Russian voice coaches. In 1972, Solomon moved to
New York, where he received further vocal training with the
leading tenor of New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera – Harry
Theyard. Mr. Theyard became his vocal mentor. In 1987 Solomon
relocated to Toronto, Canada and continued his vocal studies
under Canadian baritone Louis Quilico.
Our special guest, a
native of Moldavia Igor Emelianov is an exceptionally gifted
baritone who has performed extensively in North America, Europe,
and Asia. Mr. Emelianov celebrated his successful international
debut in 2001 with the New Israeli Opera as Germont in Verdi’s
La Traviata; in the same year with the Mississauga Opera Company
also as Germont; and in 2002 with Opera Lyra Ottawa as Schaunard
in Puccini’s
La Boheme. He gave a stirring performance of Don Carlo in
Verdi’s Ernani with the Sarasota Opera, and as the Venetian
Merchant in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko with Opera in Concert.
Mr. Emelianov appeared with the Canadian Opera Company as
Doctor Ibn Hakia in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, as Monterone
in Rigoletto, and created the role of Alexander Berkman in
the world premiere of Kulesha’s Red Emma with the Canadian
Opera Company. Other engagements were with Centuries Opera
Association as Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Germont in
Verdi’s La Traviata. He has also been a featured soloist
with Kingston and York Symphony Orchestras, with CBC in Singing
Starts of Tomorrow and Opera Highlights broadcasts, with the
Canadian Opera Company’ Operamania, Opera York, Opera
Ontario, and L’Opera de Montreal.
The Belarusian-born pianist Zhenya
Yesmanovich holds a Master’s
Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Toronto
where she was mastering the art of piano under the guidance
of Boris Lysenko. These past couple of years Ms. Yesmanovich
had participated in masterclasses with Garrick Ohlsson, Boris
Berman, Yefim Bronfman, Roger Vignoles, Håkan Hagegård
and Adrianne Pieczonka. She had also collaborated with Mark
Morris Dance Group at the Luminato Festival in Toronto, at
the State University of New York at Purchase, and at the Jacob’s
Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts.
Erik Satie (1866-1925) an Arraymusic
Fundraiser
Sunday May 13 at 4 pm
For tickets please call 416 532 3019
$25
“Before I compose a piece, I walk around
it several times, accompanied by myself.” - Eric Satie
Array pianist Stephen Clarke is joined by Eve Egoyan (piano)
and vocalist Christopher Butterfield. Please join us for a
delightful foray into the music of Eric Satie. Refreshments
will be served.
Program:
Chanson (1887)
Elegie (1886)
Les Anges (1886)
Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire (1903) piano four hands
-intermission-
Socrate (1918)
Bios
Born in Victoria, B.C., in 1964, pianist
Eve Egoyan has been interpreting new works since 1994. Eve
has performed the world première and North American premières of many
works by Canadian and international composers including Martin
Arnold, Allison Cameron, Alvin Curran, Maria de Alvear, José Evangelista,
Michael Finnissy, Rudolf Komorous, Jo Kondo, Michael Longton,
Juliet Palmer, Stephen Parkinson, James Rolfe, Linda C. Smith,
Ann Southam, Karen Tanaka, James Tenney, Judith Weir and Gayle
Young. Many of these works were commissioned through the Canada
Council, Ontario Arts Council, Laidlaw Foundation, CBC, Japan-Canada
Fund and the British Council.
She has appeared as a solo recitalist in Canada, England,
France, Germany, Portugal, Japan, and the U.S. including performances
at the Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, (Huddersfield,
U.K.), the Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), the Vancouver
New Music Festival, the Kobe International Modern Music Festival
(Kobe, Japan), and the Sound Symposium (St. Johns). In 2001
she made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, playing
the world première of Figures by Ann Southam for the
Massey Hall New Music Festival (CBC commission).
Eve has released eight critically acclaimed solo discs, seven
of works by contemporary composers and one disc of works by
Erik Satie. She has acted as soloist and executive producer
on all these discs. Her first solo CD, thethingsinbetween,
was included in the Globe and Mail’s 1999 “Top
Ten” list. Simple Lines of Enquiry, a one-hour long
piano solo by Ann Southam written for Eve, was selected as
one of the New Yorker magazine’s ten top of 2009 discs
by Alex Ross, music critic and author of the critically acclaimed “The
Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century”.
Her most recent disc, RETURNINGS, was selected by Elissa Poole,
of The Globe and Mail, as her top pick of the Year's Best
Music, 2011.
RETURNINGS, with world première recordings of works
Ann Southam, was released on December 2, 2011 at Glenn Gould
Studio, Toronto. Along with Simple Lines of Enquiry, RETURNINGS
represents some of the complete works for solo piano that
Ann wrote with her in mind. New works have recently surfaced
which Eve is planning to record. Eve performed Ann’s
Simple Lines of Enquiry at Nuit Blanche in Paris, France,
October 2011. She looks forward to touring this work westwards
to the PuSh Festival in Vancouver and other destinations in
January 2012.
As an improvising musician Eve has had the opportunity to
perform with Fred Frith, Michael Snow, Malcolm Goldstein,
Anne Bourne, Martin Arnold, and Casey Sokol. Other collaborations
include dance projects, interdisciplinary performance, film
work (including the Oscar nominated “Capote”)
and sound installations. Her most recent Collaboration Surface
Tension with her husband media artist David Rokeby (structured
improvisations on a disklavier piano and real-time images)
can be viewed at: www.vimeo.com/6154175.
Honours include numerous commissions and awards from the
Canada Council, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils, FACTOR,
a University of Victoria Distinguished Alumna Award, a K.M.
Hunter Award, and a Chalmers Award. Recently she was elected
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and was one
of fifty Canadian performers and conductors given and designation
of “CMC Ambassador” by the Canadian Music Centre.
Eve trained in standard repertoire at the Victoria Conservatory
of Music with Anne Brayshaw and Winifred Scott Wood, the University
of Victoria with Eva Solar- Kinderman, the Banff Centre of
Fine Arts with György Sebök, the Hochschule der
Künste in West Berlin with Georg Sava (German Academic
Exchange Scholarship), the Royal Academy of Music in London,
England, with Hamish Milne (Commonwealth Scholarship), and
in Toronto where she completed her M.Mus. at the University
of Toronto with Patricia Parr (Chalmers Award).
Stephen Clarke has performed
in festivals in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and South America,
among these the Donaueschingen Musiktage and the Berliner
Festwochen. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic New Music Group, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
New Music Concerts (Toronto),
the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company.
He also plays in a duo with violinist Marc Sabat, has worked
with a number of ensembles and is pianist with Arraymusic.
Solo recordings include first recordings of works by Giacinto
Scelsi (Mode Records) Udo Kasemets (hatHut) and Marc Sabat
(World Edition). Recordings with Marc Sabat include the complete
music for violin and piano by James Tenney (hatHut), Morton
Feldman and Christian Wolff (Mode), as well as Maria de Alvear
(World Edition) Mr. Clarke studied composition at the University
of Toronto and has written works for various ensembles.
Born in Vancouver, composer Christopher
Butterfield received
his earliest musical training as a chorister in King’s
College Choir, Cambridge (UK). He studied composition with
Rudolf Komorous at the University of Victoria, and with Bülent
Arel at SUNY Stony Brook. He lived in Toronto from 1977 to
1992, where he played in the rock band Klo, made performance
art, conducted and sang.
His most recent work includes Bosquet, a spatial work for
22 flutes and ‘cello commissioned by Montreal’s
Ensemble Alizé; Stall, a site-specific work for public
washrooms commissioned by improvising singers DB Boyko and
Christine Duncan; Trip, a string quartet written for the Quatuor
Bozzini; settings of Jacques Prévert’s 1947 childrens’ stories
Contes pour enfants pas sages, for Toronto’s Continuum
Ensemble; Madame Wu said…, a projected three-day piece
for piano trio; Triple Expansion for orchestra, commissioned
by the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra; and Les Paradis Perdus,
music for voice and tape to accompany a choreography by Laurence
Lemieux.
He has written an opera, Zurich 1916, which was produced
at the Banff Festival in 1998; Convoy PQ17, a ballet score
for chorus and orchestra that premiered in St. Petersburg,
Russia in 2001, and many chamber works. In 1996/97 he performed
Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonata many times on tour
in Europe and the United States with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie
Zane Dance Company.
Butterfield’s music has been played across Canada,
as well as in Finland, Slovakia, Poland, and France, and is
recorded on the Artifact and CBC labels. He teaches in the
School of Music and the Department of Visual Arts at the University
of Victoria, BC
TRIO CONCERTANTE:
Nancy Dahn, violin; Tim
Steeves, piano; Simon Fryer, cello
Sunday May 20th at 3:00pm
Tickets $25.00; students $10.00
Programme:
Beethoven Op.1 No.2
Katarina Curcin: Gypsy
Schubert Bb Trio D898
Bios
Nancy Dahn and Timothy
Steeves, well known
as Duo Concertante, have worked together since 1997 and are
known for the passion, subtlety, and brilliance of their performances.
Nancy and Tim maintain a busy touring schedule, with frequent
performances across North America, as well as in Europe and
China. Duo Concertante has received the Touring Performers
Award (Contact East) as well as Memorial University’s prestigious President’s
Award for Outstanding Research, and were named NLAC Artist
of the Year in May 2010.
Of five acclaimed recordings, the most recent, Wild Bird,
includes works written especially for the duo by Canadian
composers Murray Schafer, Chan Ka Nin, and Kati Agócs,
and takes its name from Schafer’s Duo for Violin and
Piano which won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of
the Year. Duo Concertante’s recording It Takes Two features
encore pieces and was described as “spectacular” by
the American Record Guide. Their first three CDs—À Deux,
Of Heart and Homeland, and Wild Honey—all received nominations
for Best Classical Recording at the East Coast Music Awards.
Based at Memorial University in St. John’s, Dahn and
Steeves have given hundreds of master classes and workshops
across Canada, the US, and China and their commitment to working
with young musicians has given rise to the annual Tuckamore
Chamber Music Festival. As Artistic Directors of the Festival,
they continue to present and collaborate with international
artists such as the Shanghai Quartet, the Lafayette String
Quartet, Mark Fewer, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Miro
Quartet, Suzie Leblanc, and Louis Lortie.
“two packages of musical dynamite” Halifax
Chronicle-Herald
www.duoconcertante.com
Simon Fryer, recently appointed Principal Cello of the Regina
Symphony Orchestra, is an artist of the utmost versatility,
at home with the demands of the music of our time and those
of historical performance, with collaboration and solo recital.
Artistic Director of the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto,
Simon is also in demand for his teaching, coaching and masterclass
skills.
Appearances as soloist in Canada with the Esprit Orchestra
and the Da Capo Chamber Choir, are complemented by performances
as guest Principal with the Hamilton Philharmonic and internationally
with the Orqestra Sinfonica de Tenerife and the UK’s
Northern Sinfonia. Formerly a member of the Juno-winning Penderecki
String Quartet and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Simon collaborates
regularly with musicians such as the Silver Birch String Quartet,
Duo Concertante and flutist Robert Aitken. His discography
of over 20 recordings includes the solo CD: Music of a life
so far... acclaimed as ‘a fascinating collection' by
the Toronto Star. He will shortly release a CD of Victorian
English Sonatas with pianist Leslie De’Ath for Centaur
Records.
Now teaching at the Regina Conservatory for the Performing
Arts Simon has previously held faculty positions at Wilfrid
Laurier University, the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould
School, Canada and the Casalmaggiore International Festival
in Italy. Continuously active as a chamber musician, orchestral
player and soloist in more than thirty countries on six continents,
he performs on an instrument completed in 1998 by Masa Inokuchi.
www.simonfryer.com
DAVID AMRAM
"From Cairo to Canada to
Kerouac"
Viewing of "Pull My Daisy" followed by Jazz & Excerpts
from "On the Road" as premiered by Kerouac and Amram
in 1957.
Tuesday May 22 at 8 pm
Tickets $30
Featuring David Amram, composer and multi-instrumentalist;
Les Allt, flute; Roberto Occhipiniti, bass
Program
Introduction by David Amram
Screening of Robert Franks' film "Pull
My Daisy" (29
minutes)
Spontaneously narrated by Jack Kerouac
Directed by Alfred Leslie
Score and title song composed by David Amram
*The screening
will be followed by a Q & A
CANADIAN PREMIER of the Chamber Version of the flute concerto
commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway.
2nd movement
of "Giants of the Night" composed
by David Amram and Les Allt, flute
INTERMISSION
"This is Beat"
a reading of a statement Jack Kerouac
by David Amram
Jazz & Poetry
five classic excerpts read from "On the Road",
as performed by Kerouac and Amram 1957 for the first-ever
public jazz/poetry readings in New York City
1) Children of the American Bop night"
2) "Denver
At last"
3) "On the Roof of America"
4) "On Hearing Shearing"
5) "So in America"
Kerouac & Amram’s musical favorites
"Waltz" from Arthur Miller's After the Fall" from
Amram's score for Miller's play
Aya Zehn" Famous Egyptian folk song
Theme for
"Splendor in the Grass" from Amram's score for
the film, which was one of Kerouac's favorites
Mastinchele Wachipi Olwan", traditional Lakota round
dance melody.
Pull My Daisy" Lyrics by Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen
Ginsberg.
Bio
David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber
music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and
film, including the classic scores for the films "Splendor
in The Grass" and "The Manchurian Candidate;" two
operas, including the groundbreaking Holocaust opera "The
Final Ingredient;" and the score for the landmark 1959
documentary "Pull My Daisy," narrated by novelist
Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three books, "Vibrations," an
autobiography, "Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac," a
memoir, and "Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" published
in the fall of 2007 by Paradigm Publishers.
A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso
on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens
of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an
inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has collaborated
with Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's
first composer-in-residence in 1966, Langston Hughes, Dizzy
Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk,
Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel
Hampton, E. G. Marshall, and Tito Puente. One of Amram's most
recent works "Giants of the Night" is a flute concerto
dedicated to the memory Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy
Gillespie, three American artists Amram knew and worked with.
It was commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway.
He is also currently working with author Frank McCourt on
a new setting of the Mass, "Missa Manhattan," His
two most recent orchestral works are "Symphonic Variations
on a Song by Woody Guthrie." commissioned by the Guthrie
Foundation, premiered Sept. 29 2007 , and Three Songs: A Concerto
for Piano and Orchestra premiered in January of 2009. He was
the Democratic National Convention's composer-in-residence
in August of 2008 in Denver.
Today, as he has for over fifty years, Amram continues to
compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist,
bandleader, visiting scholar, and narrator in five languages.
Subito: Duos for Violin and Piano
Wednesday, May 23rd at 8pm
Tickets $20 (Student $10)
Programme:
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin in F major, op. 24 "spring"
Lutoslawski: "Subito" (1992) for Violin and Piano
INTERMISSION
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Cesar Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major
Bios
Carson Becke has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber
musician, including performances in Canada (National Arts
Centre, Four Seasons Centre, Integral House), England (the
Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Georges Bristol,
Steinway Hall, Winchester Cathedral), Scotland, Ireland (Canadian
Embassy), Germany, Switzerland (Verbier Festival Academy),
Poland, Latvia (National Radio) and Trinidad and Tobago. For
the past three summers he has been artist in residence and
then artistic director of “Festival Pontiac Enchante” in
Luskville, Quebec.
Carson was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began learning the
piano at the age of five with his Great Grandmother, Mary
Mackey. In 2005, he moved to the UK in order to study at the
Purcell School of Music, where he studied piano with Ilana
Davids and composition with Jonothan Cole. After graduating
from the Purcell School, he studied on scholarship at the
Royal Academy of Music in London with Tatiana Sarkissova.
He completed his Bachelors degree in June 2011.
Since moving to the UK, Carson has won a number of awards
and prizes, including the top prize in the S.V. Rachmaninov
Piano Competition (2006, Russia), 1st Prize in the BBC young
composers of the year competition (2007), and the Harold Craxton
Chamber Music Competition, Francis Earle, and Dorothy Bryant
awards at the Royal Academy of Music. He was also the recipient
of a BBC performing arts fund bursary scholarship in 2007.
As a composer, his composition “Three Nocturnes for
Orchestra” has been performed by the Purcell Symphony
Orchestra in the UK, and the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra in Canada,
and has also been heard on BBC Radio Three. A smaller composition, “John
Keats: On Death” was recorded by members of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, and has been performed in the BBC Proms.
Currently, Carson is teaching in London, England, and is
studying privately with Tatiana Sarkissova. He is competing
at the Honen's International Piano competition in 2012. Among
recent Canadian appearances were concerts at the Richard Bradshaw
Auditorium of the Four Season's Centre for the Arts and Integral
House (both Toronto, December 2011), and a recital at Festival
Pontiac Enchante (QC, March 2012).
Violinist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank performs as soloist,
chamber musician, and orchestral leader in North America and
Europe. He was recently named the Meaker Fellow at the Royal
Academy of Music in London, and was the recipient of Canada’s
Sylva Gelber Music Foundation 2009-10 career development award.
Highlights of recent seasons included performances at the
Spanish festival Encuentro de Musica de Santander, at the
Festival Pablo Casals in France and leading the Ashover Festival
Orchestra in the United Kingdom. As an avid chamber musician,
his performances have been broadcast on SDR radio (Germany),
WCLV Cleveland and PBS television. He has held multi-year
Fellowships at both the Aspen Music Festival and the Perlman
Music Program.
A native of Toronto, Mr. Anderson-Frank has studied at the
Royal Conservatory of Music, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
and Salzburg’s Mozarteum. Mr. Anderson-Frank holds a
Bachelor of Music degree with academic honours from the Cleveland
Institute of Music and a Masters of Music degree, obtained
with distinction on full scholarship at the Royal Academy
of Music in London. He regularly leads orchestras including
the Orion Symphony and City Side Sinfonia of London and was
a member of the LSO String Experience Scheme. In February
2011, Mr. Anderson-Frank was appointed No. 3 First Violin
of the London Philharmonia Orchestra.
Among Nathaniel's recent appearances in Canada was a program
of Spanish music at Orillia Festival and in George Weston
Hall (Toronto, 2011); concerts at a festival in Pontiac, Quebec,
in July 2011; a program of French and Canadian music in R.
Bradshaw Amphitheater (COC), Ottawa,Quebec and in Integral
House (Rosedale,Toronto) in November 2011
Nathaniel plays a 1682 G. Cappa violin.
Thin Edge New Music Collective
Thursday May 24, 2012 at 8 PM
Admission $20
The Thin Edge New Music Collective believes that contemporary
music is a powerful medium which has the ability to comment
and reflect on modern society in a unique and poignant way.
Being a musician in the information age means one is acutely
aware of the existence of an ever expanding and impossibly
diverse spectrum of musical styles and soundscapes. We believe
that the broad range of musical idioms which new music encompasses
functions as an important touchstone for contemporary life
and as such are passionately dedicated to supporting our
peers through commissions and performance. Ultimately we
aspire to bring innovative and challenging 20th and 21st
century music to audiences both existing and as yet untapped.
http://thethinedgenewmusiccollective.com/home.cfm
Thin Edge Performer Bios:
From her beginnings in Kamloops, BC, Elizabeth
Eccleston is currently completing the final stages of her doctoral studies
in music majoring in Oboe at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music where she also obtained her
MMus. Her interest in new music developed during her time
at Wilfrid Laurier University, where as an undergraduate studying
with James Mason of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, she collaborated
with numerous young Canadian composers for the performance
of new chamber works on the Student Composers Concert Series.
During this time, she was also a member of the WLU Improvisation
Concerts Ensemble, under the direction of composer Glenn Buhr.
Heavily involved with chamber and orchestral music performances,
she has also been featured as concerto soloist with several
orchestras, winning concerto competitions in Waterloo and
twice in Cincinnati, including a performance of Lutos?awski's
Concerto for Oboe and Harp with the Cincinnati Café Momus
Ensemble. In addition, she has been able to perform both new
and traditional music in chamber and orchestral settings during
many years of travel with festival tours through China, Italy,
the United States, as well as Canada with the National Academy
Orchestra of Canada and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Since winning the audition in October 2011, Elizabeth has
taken a new position with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
as Second Oboe/English Horn. In her spare time she enjoys
playing disc golf and snowboarding.
Olaf Szester is a percussionist and composer based out of
Toronto, Ontario. He has been consistent in pursuing both
directions throughout his career. Olaf graduated with an
Honours Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University
where he specialized in Orchestral Performance and Composition.
In addition, he had the opportunity to perform across Holland
while studying percussion at the Royal Conservatory in Den
Haag (Koninklijk Conservatorium), which is renowned for
its focus on new music. He graduated from Koninklijk Conservatorium
with a second Bachelor Degree in Percussion in 2008, where
he studied with Luuk Nagtegaal, Hans Zonderop, Fedor Teunisse,
Ali N’Diaye Rose, Wim Vos, and Stefan Kruger. He has
also had the pleasure of studying with Trichy Sankaran,
Dave Campion, Michael Coghlan, Richard Windeyer, Peter Hatch,
Glenn Buhr, and Linda Catlin Smith. Currently, Olaf is completing
a Masters degree in Composition at York University; he is
also focusing his energies on freelancing, teaching and
pursuing personal musical projects.
Cheryl Duvall is a multi-faceted musician and pianist. She
is active as a soloist, collaborative pianist, teacher and
adjudicator and has toured and performed throughout Canada,
Italy, England, Argentina, the Netherlands and the U.S. Ms.
Duvall appears regularly as a collaborative pianist in the
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society concert series and
is the official accompanist for the internationally renowned
Oakville Children’s Choir. She is especially passionate
about contemporary music, which has led her along with friend
and violinist Ilana Waniuk, to co-found The Thin Edge New
Music Collective. Cheryl has attended the Casalmaggiore Music
Festival in Italy, the Palazzo Ricci masterclass series, the
Toronto Summer Music Festival, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference
and held an artistic residency at the Banff Centre for the
Arts. In 2009, she was awarded a SSHRC grant for her pedagogical
research on how to incorporate aspects of the Alexander Technique
into lessons with beginner piano students. Ms. Duvall completed
an Honours Bachelor of Music, majoring in Piano Performance
and Theory and a Diploma of Chamber Music from Wilfrid Laurier
University as well as a Master’s of Piano Performance
and Pedagogy at the University of Toronto. Her main teachers
and influences include Guy Few, Chris Foley, Midori Koga,
Carmen Piazzinni, Nina Tichman, Henri-Paul Sicsic, Anya Alexeyev
and Jamie Parker as well as the Penderecki String Quartet.
www.cherylduvall.com
Ilana Waniuk, is a versatile violinist and contemporary chamber
music addict. She has held an artistic residency at the Banff
centre for the Arts, and has attended several summer workshops
and festivals throughout Canada, the USA, and Italy which
have provided her with the opportunity to study with members
of the Vermeer, Tokyo, Cavani, and Orford string quartets.
In 2002 as a participant in the NUMUS Pan-Am Chamber Competition
her chamber ensemble the TEDUWA piano trio was the recipient
of the Audience Award sponsored by the Kitchener Waterloo
Chamber Music Society, and the Canadian Music Center Award
for best performance of a Canadian work. She has also performed
with the Pendulum Ensemble in Toronto, and Ensemble Dal Niente
in Chicago. Ilana received a Performers Certificate from Northern
Illinois University where she studied with Blaise Magniere,
and Marie Wang of the Avalon String Quartet and was a recipient
of the Dutton String Fellowship. She completed her Masters
degree in performance at the University of Ottawa studying
with David Stewart, and received her undergraduate degree
in performance and a diploma in chamber music from Wilfrid
Laurier University where she studied with Jeremy Bell and
Jerzy Kaplanek of the Penderecki String Quartet.
Thin Edge Composer Bios:
Margaret Ashburner studied music composition with Linda Catlin
Smith and Peter Hatch at Wilfrid Laurier University and with
Christopher Butterfield at the University of Victoria. Margaret’s
music has been performed throughout Canada: They Let Their
Brushstrokes Show has been performed at the Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria, Through a Window or a Door at the Open Ears
Festival in Waterloo and Ink Blot by the Bozzini Quartet at
Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montreal. She has been
commissioned by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra
and the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra. Her work Small Rooms for
solo harp is published with the Avondale Press and listed
in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s 2009 Harp Syllabus;
Small Rooms has recently been recorded by Lori Gemmell on “Canadian
Music for Harp” which was supported by the Ontario Arts
Council.
Flutist and composer Aura Giles holds a Masters in Flute
Performance from the University of Ottawa, having studied
with Camille Churchfield and is in the ultimate year of her
MA in composition with the renowned Steven Gellman. Aura's
music pushes the limits of the flutists' traditional skills
by incorporating a strong vocal component in her solo pieces.
Dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary
music, Aura joined the board of the Ottawa New Music Creators
in 2010. As well as actively performing in solo, chamber and
orchestral settings, Aura also plays piano and sings for pleasure
and maintains a full roster of flute students. This summer
Aura will be touring with the Thin Edge Music Collective,
as both performer and composer. For more information about
events, please visit www.auragiles.com.
Tova Kardonne’s choir-saturated youth and her Conservatory
training in viola and piano led into a passion for a wide
array of musical idioms. She studied Vocal Jazz and Composition/
Arranging at Humber College, classical viola with Talisker
Players’ Mary McGeer, and orchestral composition under
Gary Kulesha at the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute
2010. Tova’s compositions have toured the world as part
the Vox Novus 60X60 project. She has scored film installation
and accompanied works of theatre, dance, and performance art
in Toronto and internationally. As a vocalist, she has shared
the stage with Ravi Naimpalli, Bill McBirnie, Ted Quinlan,
David Restivo and Jim Vivian among others. Her a cappella
choral choreographed performance art has been showcased in
Nuit Blanche 2007 through 2010, including her large-scale
live choral performance installation, “Sound Forest” in
2008. She performs with Christine Duncan’s Element Choir
(most recently in Montreal for l’Off Festival de Jazz),
Alex Samaras’ GREX choir the Toronto Heliconian Choir,
and plays a daringly instrument-like vocal role in her Jazz
trio The Weft with bassist Phill Albert and drummer Nick Fraser.
Tova performs her compositions with The Thing Is, her 8-piece
Balkan-Jazz fusion band (www.myspace.com/thethingismusic),
makes guest appearances singing her compositions with the
Composer’s Collective Big Band and with the Max Senitt
jazz ensemble. Recent commissions include “La Danse,” based
on the painting of the same name by Marc Chagall, premiering
at the AGO in December 2011, and a Sonata for piano and violin
for the Thin Edge New Music Collective, premiering in May
2012. She is the Musical Director and arrangement consultant
for b current/Theatre Archipelago’s world premiere of
Obeah Opera. Tova acts as a creative facilitator for dance/music
collaborations, most notably with Andrea Nann and Nilan Perera
at the Young Centre for the Arts; she also teaches privately
from her home.
August Murphy-King is an emerging composer currently living
in Toronto. After studying piano and playing in a wide variety
of musical settings, August attended the Schulich School of
Music at McGill University, where he was a Schulich Scholar.
He studied with Chris Harman and Sean Ferguson, completing
a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition in 2009. In the
fall of 2011, August enrolled in the Masters program at the
University of Toronto, where he studies with Gary Kulesha.
His music has recently been performed by the Madawaska String
Quartet and the TorQ Percussion Quartet, as well as by pianist
Yuval Fichman. In addition to composing, August has worked
extensively with the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects,
serving as an assistant on the Composing in the Classroom
project. As part of this project, he had the pleasure of working
with composers Brian Current and Andrew Staniland, as well
as the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Gryphon Trio, and Esprit
Orchestra.
Nick Storring is a Toronto-based composer with a wide palette
of interests, ranging from skewed pop to electroacoustics,
and from chamber music to various forms of cross-cultural
collaboration. Recent winner of the Canadian Music Centre's
2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, he also placed first
in the 2008 Jeux de Temps/ Times Play Competition for young
Canadian electroacoustic composers with the first section
of his broken violin-derived work Artifacts. Eager to collaborate
with artists in various media, his work has recently been
performed by the Esprit Orchestra, the Madawaska String Quartet,
and Quatuor Bozzini. Interactive piece Tentacles, featuring
Storring's music and sound design, was featured at MoMA in
New York City this summer and fall as part of their Talk To
Me exhibit. He also frequently collaborates with Kitchener-based
theatre collective the MT Space, including doing original
music and sound design for the Last 15 Seconds, which toured
across Canada and to the Middle East. He is member of various
bands: Picastro, Mexican son jarocho group Café Con
Pan, I Have Eaten The City, and experimental cello duo the
Knot, and creates skewed pop-dance music under the alias Piège.
His debut album of abstract electronic work, Rife was released
this past September on UK imprint Entr'acte. For more information
and sound samples visit: www.nickstorring.ca
LUCIANE CARDASSI: View from the Train
Friday May 25 at 8pm
$20; $15 Seniors; $10 Students
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A program of evocative music exploring relationships between
music and text in pieces combining piano, pianist voice, electronics
and video.
Program:
A program of evocative music exploring relationships between
music and text in pieces combining piano, pianist voice, electronics
and video.
Luciane Cardassi, piano and voice
Emilie Cecilia LeBel, sound diffusion
Program:
TERRI HRON - AhojAhoj (2011) for piano
and soundtrack
FELIPE DE ALMEIDA RIBEIRO - Desassossego Latente (2010) for piano
and recitation
LINDA CATLIN SMITH - Thoughts and Desire (2007) for piano
and singing
DIANA MCINTOSH - From Wapta Ice (2003) for
spoken text, piano and electronics
Text
by Monica Meneguetti
RAFAEL DE OLIVEIRA - Construção II (2011) for piano
and electronics
EMILIE CECILIA LEBEL - View from the Train (2012) for
piano, electronics and video (premiere)
Longing (2012) for
piano
Text
by Sue Sinclair
Luciane Cardassi
www.lucianecardassi.com
Brazilian-Canadian pianist Luciane Cardassi is a noted performer
of new music who regularly premiers works by emerging and
established composers from around the world. She earned a
doctorate in contemporary music performance from the University
of California, San Diego.
The main focus of Luciane’s work in the last 15 years
has been collaborations with composers. Since moving
to Canada in 2006, she has already premiered more than 30
works by Canadian composers. Luciane continues to collaborate
with composers from her native Brazil as well. In
2010, she developed a concert program, “Going North”,
with new works for piano, pianist voice, electronics and video
by Canadian and Brazilian composers, for which she received
an Alberta Creative Development Initiative grant. This first
cycle of “Going North” was well received by audiences
in Canada, Brazil and the U.K. Luciane is currently
working on “Going North 2”, to be premiered later
this year.
Luciane lives in Banff, Canada. She is the pianist of
the New Music ensemble “Rubbing Stone”, the resident
ensemble of New Works Calgary.
The Array Young Composers Workshop
Saturday May 26th at 3pm
416-532-3019
$10
As the Summer begins we celebrate with world premieres of
works written by four emerging composers:
Carolann DeYoung - London, Ontario
Karen Power - Mountnorth, Co.Cork, Ireland
Justin Haynes - Toronto, Ontario
Lynne Penhale - Victoria, B.C.
Array’s 2011|12 Young Composers’ Workshop and
Concert (YCW) will be held during the entire month of May
in Toronto. The final public concert is presented at Gallery
345 on May 26.
This year the composers will write for percussionist David
Schotzko, cellist Lydia Munchinsky, clarinetist Colleen Cook
and special guest, soprano Patricia O'Callaghan. Faculty of
the University of Victoria , composer Christopher Butterfield
will mentor the composers. Array Artistic Director Rick Sacks
will conduct.
Array’s 2011|12 YCW received funding support from the
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, the Canada Council for the
Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation
and from private donations
Bios
As a soloist, chamber musician, and curator, percussionist David
Schotzko is a passionate advocate for contemporary music.
A founding member of the acclaimed International Contemporary
Ensemble (ICE), David has premiered over 300 works by composers
from across the globe, and has worked with both the established
composers of today (such as Steve Reich, John Adams, Elliott
Carter, Luca Francesconi, Louis Andriessen, Pascal Dusapin,
Stefano Gervasoni, Ignacio Baca-lobera, Julio Estrada, Steve
Reich, Chaya Czernowin, Philippe Hurel, David Lang, Magnus
Lindberg, Philippe Manoury, John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick,
Tan Dun, and more), and tomorrow’s rising stars (Dai
Fujikura, Du Yun, Johannes Boris Borowski, Ted Hearne, Judd
Greenstein, William Brittelle, Missy Mazzoli, Huang Ruo, Edgar
Guzman, Anna Clyne, Marcos Balter, Felipe Lara, and Oscar
Bettison). In 2008 David commissioned and premiered yuunohui’wah
by Mexican composer Julio Estrada, performing the work in
New York, Chicago, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
With the International Contemporary Ensemble, David performed
more than 60 concerts a year from 2001 through 2009, in the
US, Mexico, Finland, Norway, Italy, and Greece. Serving as
ICE’s Program Director from 2004 to 2008, he was engaged
in all aspects of programming and artistic planning: conceiving
and programming the Sound/Image Events series at Rosenberg
and Kaufman Fine Art in New York; commissioning composers
Phillipe Manoury, Huang Ruo, Du Yun, and Dai Fujikura; co-curating
ICE’s 21st Century Young Composers Project in 2004 and
2006; co-curating Chicago ICEFest from 2005 to 2007; and conceiving
3G—a groundbreaking festival of new music by Mexican
composers performed in New York and Chicago.
David received rave reviews in print and digital press as
the solo percussionist in the US premiere of Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteia
at New York’s Miller Theatre, and has performed solo
in New York, Chicago, Morelia (Mexico), and Oslo (Norway).
An active performer in New York’s contemporary music
scene, David performed regularly with members of So Percussion,
Alarm Will Sound, Either/Or, Argento Ensemble, JACK Quartet,
and many others from 2004 to 2009.
Relocated to Toronto in 2010, David has already become an
active performer in Canada, performing with the Canadian Opera
Company, the Esprit Orchestra, Arraymusic, Toca Loca, Nexus,
TorQ Percussion, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, New
Music Concerts, and at Ottawa Chamberfest. He recently performed
the North American premiere of Au dela d'une etude pour percussion
solo by Vinko Globokar with the composer in attendance at
the Music Gallery, and will premiere a new work by acclaimed
Canadian composer Michael Oesterle at Toronto’s Gallery
345 in April 2012.
Cellist Lydia Munchinsky is a graduate of the Performance
Diploma Program of The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory
of Music in Toronto. A student of Simon Fryer, she was also
a member of the Veritas Piano Quartet, the school's ensemble
in residence. Veritas performed in various music festivals
across Ontario and has been featured on CBC Radio Two's "Music
Around Us" series. Lydia also has her ARCT in performance
for both piano and cello. Her other teachers include Dorothy
Jones and Karen Rowell (piano) and Amanda Keesmaat and Julia
MacGregor (cello).
Lydia Munchinsky (nee Helsdon) grew up near Aylmer Ontario
and began piano lessons at the age of four. She began studying
cello when she was ten, and at the ages of ten and twelve
performed for Dr. Suzuki at the International Suzuki Conventions
in Australia and Korea. After high school, Lydia stayed for
a term at Swiss l'Abri, an International Christian Study and
Philosophy Centre. While there, she met her husband Marty,
whom she married in 2003.
Lydia currently lives and works as a freelance musician and
teacher in Toronto. She has performed in music theatre productions
at Stage West and Theatre Aquarius, with Kanye West at Much
Music, is a regular member of the Vietnamese DVD productions "Paris
by Night" and enjoys giving recitals in retirement homes
across the city. She also performed the Haydn D+ Concerto
with the Deep River Orchestra last October. In her spare time
Lydia enjoys painting, playing sports and making ice cream.
Patricia O'Callaghan divides her time between recording,
touring, and collaborating on other interesting projects.
Some collaborations include singing with Bryn Terfel at Roy
Thompson Hall, touring the multi media opera Constantinople
by Christos Hatzis, produced by The Gryphon Trio, to London’s
Royal Opera House, among other places, and recording and touring
with jazz clarinettist Don Byron, in support of his Bluenote
release, A Fine Line. Recent appearances include opening the
2007 season with Soulpepper Theatre Company playing the role
of Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera. 2010 saw her with Calgary
and Edmonton Operas and Alberta Ballet performing Weill’s
The Seven Deadly Sins. She is in her third year as one of
twelveResident Artists at The Young Centre for Performing
Arts in Toronto.
Colleen Cook is a member of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra.
In her work as an orchestral musician she has had the opportunity
to work with many of southern Ontario’s orchestras,
including the National Ballet of Canada and the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra. As a chamber musician Colleen was a member of The
Burdocks, a contemporay chamber group that was active in commissioning
from many composers; she was also a member of Belladonna,
which brought chamber music into atypical performing spaces
in an effort to create a less formal listening adventure.
Colleen has worked with Collaborations, which aims to combine
music and other visual arts or dance to create a chamber experience
for the audience. Over the years orchestral and chamber concerts
in which Colleen has participated have been broadcast on radio
and television.
Composers Play: Fundraiser for New Music
Concerts
Robert Aitken, flute; Brian Current,
piano; Adam Sherkin, piano; John Beckwith, piano; Bruce Mather,
piano; Andrew Staniland, guitar; Scott Good, trombone; Adam
Scime, contrabass
Friday June 1, 2012 at 8 PM
Admission $50
This evening's performance will feature a number of composers who have been associated
with NMC over the years. They will perform music of their choice in a concert
to benefit New Music Concerts. Pianists Brian Current, Adam Sherkin, John Beckwith
and Bruce Mather; Robert Aitken, flute; guitarist Andrew Staniland, trombonist
Scott Good and contrabassist Adam Scime have all offered their services for an
event that promises to be both eclectic and entertaining. Food and drink, door
prizes and a good time to be had by all. Tickets are $50, with a charitable receipt
issued for the CRA allowable portion and are available in advance from the New
Music Concerts office 416.961.9594.
Robert Aitken
Brian Current
Adam Sherkin
John Beckwith
Bruce Mather
Andrew Staniland
Scott Good
Adam Scime
Daniel Foley 60th Birthday Recital
Sunday June 3, 8pm
FREE
DUO+for+CANADA
Ina Henning and Stefan Schreiber
Friday September 7, 2012 at 8:00PM
$25; $10 - Students
Programme
In Re Con Moto et al. (1915/16) Charles
Edward Ives (1874-1954)
Largo Risoluto No. 1 (1908/09)
Largo Risoluto No. 2 (1909/10)
Pandoras Box (1960/….) Bandoneon Piece Mauricio Kagel
(1931-2008)
MIMETICS Meta Piece for piano (1961)
New commission (2012) Anna Höstman***
Black Hole (2006) Lan-Chee Lam***
Pentagrams (2010) Andrew Staniland**
--- INTERMISSION---
p i a l accordion and piano (1994) Hans Joachim Hespos*
**World premiere
**World premiere
**Premiere
*Canadian Premiere
STEFAN SCHREIBER
Stefan Schreiber was born in 1968 in Duisburg, Germany. From
1978 to 87 he studied Piano with José Prado at the
Niederrhein music school. In 1984 he participated at the 'International
Dmitri Shostakovich Festival' playing early piano cycles by
Shostakovich, and in 1987 at the International Festival
'Charles Ives und die Amerikanische Musik' performing piano
and chamber music by Charles Ives. From 1987-1993 he attended
the Robert Schumann College of Music in Düsseldorf where
he specialised in Contemporary Music, studying Piano under
Prof. David Levine and conducting under Prof Wolfgang Trommer. Whilst
at the college his performances included Piano Cycles,
Chamber Music and Vocal Compositions by Arnold Schönberg,
Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Egon Wellesz, Stefan Wolpe, Josef
Tal and by Morton Feldman the entire work group "Instruments".
With various orchestras he performed the Concerto in F by
George Gershwin and other Piano Concertos by Paul Hindemith,
Aribert Reimann, Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky.
Even before graduating Stefan was engaged at the "Wuppertaler
Bühnen" later known as the "Schillertheater
NRW" from 1992-1997 where he performed the Chamber Concerto
by Alban Berg, Piano Works, Chamber Pieces and Vocal
Compositions by Alfred Schnittke, for instance, the German
Premiere of his "Aphorisms", and he conducted "Fürchtet
Euch Nicht" by Pina Bausch to music by Kurt Weill.
From 1997 - 2001 he was Stellvertretender Studienleiter
at The Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg where
his concerts included piano recitals with compositions by
Charles Ives, George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski and Charles Wuorinen.
Chamber Works by Morton Feldman and a "Collage
piece" of works by Erik Satie, Alberto Savinio, Arthur
Lourié and Igor Stravinsky at the Kunstsammlung
NRW.
In 2001-06 Stefan was appointed Studienleiter and
Assistant to the General Music Director of "Staatsoper
Hannover" where he continued his work of bringing
to the fore the music of Contemporary Composers. Concerts
included Piano Works and Performances from John Cage to Erik
Satie and also Piano Works, Vocal Compositions and Performance
Pieces by Hans Joachim Hespos, Jochen Neurath, Kay Ivo Nowack,
Johannes Harneit and NeuNoNeit.
During his time in Hannover, Stefan was invited in 2002 to
Pfefferberg Berlin by "Activia Neuer Musik" to perform
a piano evening titled "Versus NeuNoNeit". In 2003
he was asked to conduct a new production of Salome by Richard
Strauss at The National Theatre Belgrad. Also in 2003
Stefan started performing as actor in "Lieber Nicht.
Eine Ausdünnung" by Christoph Marthaler at the Volksbühne
Berlin. He was also Studienleiter for the Festival Klangbogen
Vienna and since 2004 he has been the pianist for the Sinfonietta
Leipzig.
Since 2006 Stefan Schreiber has been Studienleiter at Staatsoper
Stuttgart and his projects so far have been:
Zeitoper III : U-Musik.Bunker, composed by Fredrik
Zeller
Zeitoper IV : Pilotprojekt Wunderzeichen with works by Mark
André
Zeitoper V : Paulinenbrücke, composed by Daniel
Ott
Zeitoper spezial: GOT LOST by Helmut Lachenmann, first scenic
performance (February 2011)
Zeitoper X : Die Geisterinsel / The Enchanted Island, chamber
opera by Ming Tsao (May 2011)
Girotondo, chamber opera by Fabio Vacchi (July 2011)
Die Taktik / Tactics, a new opera by Jennifer Walshe – performances
in June and July 2012
at the Kammertheater Stuttgart
pivoines by Hans Joachim Hespos – January 2013 at Staatsoper
Stuttgart
INA HENNING
Ina Henning was born in 1978 in Bretten, close to Karlsruhe
in Germany. She maintains a busy career in three different
fields, music performance, music pedagogy and music therapy.
Starting out as a freebass accordionist taught by her parents
who are amateur music lovers, she studied freebass accordion
from age 5 onwards. From 1992-1999 she was tutored by Werner
Glutsch, one of the finest soloists in the field of classical
piano accordion playing. Subsequently, she began studying
accordion in Trossingen, Germany, where she took lessons at
the Hohner conservatory, also in piano, classical guitar,
recorder and mouth organ. In 1999 she applied to the Hochschule
für Musik Trossingen where she studied classical accordion
with Professor Hugo Noth and piano with Professor Tomislav
N. Baynov. She finished her undergraduate studies as a double
major in accordion and piano performance in 2004. After pursuing
her “künstlerische Ausbildung” under Professor
Hugo Noth she won two stipends with the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD) to study in North America where she completed
an Advanced Certificate of Performance as well as a Master's
Degree in Performance in 2006. She is currently a doctoral
student with Prof. Joseph Macerollo at the University of Toronto.
In 2011, she won a two months stipend with the Sacher Foundation
in Basel, Switzerland in order to do research on her dissertation
topic, Stefan Wolpe.
Artistic appearances include performances with the Heidelberger
Symphoniker (Winterreise by Hans Zender in 2003), two
solo performances in Carnegie Hall, NY in 2005 and 2006 and
recent performances with the Stuttgart State Opera (Paulinenbrücke,
2009, die Ballade von Garuma, 2011, Pinocchio, 2010-12), the
Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and the New Vocal Soloists
Stuttgart. In Germany Ms. Henning frequently collaborates
with Nikola Lutz, saxophones and Luise Wunderlich, recitation
and Doris Untch, cello. In Toronto, Ina has been a guest in
various recital series across town. She has appeared at Esprit’s
New Wave Composers Festival (2006), at the Goethe Institute
(2005 and 2009), at the off centre music salon (2008 and the
Toronto music garden (2007 and 2011). Recently she made her
debut in the season opening concert of New Music Concerts
where she premiered a piece by Andrew Staniland together with
Professor Macerollo. Last year she was offered a teaching
position in accordion at the University of Education in Ludwigsburg,
Germany.
Ms. Henning joined the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Heideberg,
Germany where she obtained another Master of Arts Degree in
Music Therapy in 2008. Positions in this field include the
Klinikum Pforzheim, the Jugendmusikschule Bretten and internships
at the SHR Klinikum Langesteinbach (psychiatric ward), Sunnybrook
Health and Science Centre, Toronto (geriatric and palliative
area) and the Klinikum Pforzheim (premature infants in intensive
care units). In 2010 she became an accredited member of the
Canadian Association for Music Therapy, MTA. In the fall of
2011, Ms. Henning was a visiting scholar at Beth Israel Medical
Center, NY to participate at a weeklong workshop for premature
infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Subsequently,
the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy published an article
by her on this topic in their spring issue earlier this year.
COMPOSERS
Anna Höstman is a Canadian composer whose works have
been performed across Canada as well as in Mexico, Europe,
China, and Russia. Her compositions commonly engage with language,
sensory and kinesthetic memory, breakdown, photography, and
architectures of variation; they explore her deep love for
the natural worlds. From 2005-8, Anna was the resident composer
of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. During this time five
new pieces for orchestra were premiered as well as her opera
What Time is it Now? on a libretto by Governor General Award
winning poet P.K. Page. Recorded and broadcast by CBC Radio
Two, this one-act chamber opera explored issues of dementia
as experienced by an old woman living at home with her caretaker.
Aside from concert music, Anna has also been active in writing
music for other media. She’s composed for the National
Film Board of Canada, made orchestral arrangements for The
Three Canadian Tenors, and created numerous sound designs
for theatre, dance, and experimental film shorts. She is currently
in the doctoral program at the University of Toronto.
Lan-Chee Lam was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the
Chinese University of Hong Kong with first honor, studied
composition with Prof. Chan Wing Wah. Her music often combines
Chinese tradition and contemporary technique, exploring new
dimensions of sound world. Her music has been performed in
Hong Kong, China, Canada, United States, Netherlands, Korea,
Italy, Luxembourg, Indonesia, Spain, Belgium and Taiwan. She
is now pursuing her doctoral degree in composition at the
University of Toronto, under the supervision of Prof. Ka Nin
Chan and Gary Kulesha. She has received numerous awards, including
Academic Creativity Award, Doming Lam Composition Prizes,
Con Vivo Composer Prize, First Annual gamUT Composition Prize,
as well as the winner of Choral and Wind Ensemble Composition
Competitions held at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.
Recently, she awarded top prizes in the 2008 Luxembourg International
Composition Competition, 2009 George Enescu International
Composition Competition (Symphonic Section) and Nieuw Ensmeble’s
Second Chinese Composers’ Competition.
Andrew Staniland has firmly established himself as one of
Canada’s most innovative musical voices. The New Yorker
magazine has described his work as “an alternately beautiful
and terrifying instrumental meditation”. His music is
regularly heard on CBC Radio 2 and has been broadcast internationally
in over 35 countries. His work has received numerous accolades,
including the 2009 National Grand Prize in EVOLUTION, a contemporary
music competition presented by CBC and The Banff Centre. Andrew
is on currently on faculty at Memorial University in St John’s
Newfoundland.
Charles Ives was born in the small manufacturing town of
Danbury, Connecticut, on October 20, 1874, two years before
Brahms finished his First Symphony. During the Civil War his
father George Ives had been the Union's youngest bandmaster,
his band called the best in the army. When the war ended George
had returned to Danbury to take up the unusual trade, in that
business-oriented town, of musician. As a cornet player, band
director, theater orchestra leader, choir director, and teacher,
George Ives became the most influential musician in the region.
For all his singularity, the Yankee maverick Charles Ives
is among the most representative of American artists. Optimistic,
idealistic, fiercely democratic, he unified the voice of the
American people with the forms and traditions of European
classical music. The result, in his most far-reaching work,
is like nothing ever imagined before him: music at once unique
and as familiar as a tune whistled in childhood, music that
can conjure up the pandemonium of a small-town Fourth of July
or the quiet of a New England church, music of visionary spirituality
built from the humblest materials--an old gospel hymn, a patriotic
tune, a sentimental parlor song. The way in which Ives pursued
his goal of a democratic art, and his career of creating at
the highest level of ambition while making a fortune in the
life insurance business, perhaps could only have happened
in the United States. And perhaps only there could such an
isolated, paradoxical figure make himself into a major artist.
Mauricio Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into
a Jewish family which fled from Russia in the 1920s. He studied
music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires.
In 1957 he came as a scholar to Cologne, Germany, where he
lived until his death. From 1960–66 and 1972–76,
he taught at the International Summer School at Darmstadt.
He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from
1964 to 1965 as Slee Professor of music theory and at the
Berlin Film and Television Academy as a visiting lecturer.
He served as director of courses for new music in Gothenburg
and Cologne. He was professor for new music theatre at the
Cologne Conservatory from 1974 to 1997. Invited by Walter
Fink, he was the second composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt
of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1991. In 2000 he received
the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. Among his students were
Maria de Alvear, Carola Bauckholt, Branimir Krsti?, David
Sawer, Rickard Scheffer, Juan Maria Solare, Gerald Barry and
Chao-Ming Tung. He died in Cologne on September 18, 2008 after
a long illness, at the age of 76.
Born in 1938, Hans Joachim Hespos has since 1964 composed
a huge number of works that are usually extreme even by the
standards of the German New Music. Perhaps one of the most
remarkable features of Hespos' music is that there would seem
to have been no discernible process of development of technique
or alteration in concerns during the last thirty years. Hespos
writes as uncompromisingly today as he has always done and
the unmediated forcefulness of his work remains almost without
parallel even today. His scores, be they verbal, graphic,
more conventionally notated or some combination thereof, always
constitute incitements to action rather than instructions
to be executed neutrally. Inspired by Adorno and Artaud, each
composition forms itself unfettered during the act of composition.
Thus each work of any length would hardly be analysable as
an artistic object. In Hespos' own words, he composes without
knowing "whither it goes in the next moment, where it
ends". This radical subjectivity should communicate itself
to any audience of hespos' work, his aim being, to quote Artaud "To
reach a point at which things must burst if there would be
a new departure/beginning ... to lead the spirit to a frenzy,
to a rising of its energies".
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