2015 02 12 Donderdagavondserie Nieuw Ensemble

Do 12 feb 2015 donderdagavond serie serie nieuw ensemble Grote Zaal / 20.15 uur

nieuw ensemble An Evening of Today 2015

PROGRAMMA

do 12 feb 2015 donderdagavond serie serie nieuw ensemble grote zaal / 20.15-22.30 uur

Nieuw Ensemble

An Evening of Today 2015 Gregory Charette dirigent Gunnar Gunnsteinsson spreker Aljaž Šon illusionist Vinny Jones lichtontwerp

duur ca. 40 minuten voor de 1e pauze ca. 30 minuten voor de 2e pauze ca. 20 minuten na de 2e pauze het pauzedrankje wordt geschonken in de 1e pauze

inleiding foyerdeck 1 / 19.15-19.45 uur

Harrie Starreveld fluit Carlos Rosas Coronado hobo Anna voor de Wind klarinet Hans Wesseling mandoline Helenus de Rijke gitaar Ernestine Stoop harp Katerina Konstantourou piano Herman Halewijn percussie Emi Ohi Resnick viool Frank Brakkee altviool Charles Watt cello Rosemarie Heggen contrabas

Joël Bons in gesprek met de componisten

Partners Donderdagavondserie:

We verwachten een internationaal publiek. Daarom is ervoor gekozen de toelichtingen en de biografieën in het Engels te plaatsen.

Gunnar Gunnsteinsson (IJsland, 1989) Lecture on Jón Leifur Gunnarsson with special attention to his Piece Nr. 3 Manuel Sánchez García (Spanje, 1989) aRPHe A Michalis Paraskakis (Griekenland, 1980) Skostok PAUZE 1 Luke Deane (Engeland, 1990) Melt Me Down Manuel Sánchez García aRPHe B Genevieve Murphy (Schotland, 1988) Fine.

PAUZE 2 Petra Strahovnik (Slovenië, 1986) Percept

inleiding Het Nieuw Ensemble is altijd nieuwsgierig naar de muziek van de toekomst. Voor jonge componisten en musici is een brug naar die toekomst van levensbelang. Met An Evening of Today biedt het Nieuw Ensemble daarom jaarlijks de ruimte aan de talentvolste creatieve geesten van vandaag.

Na twee succesvolle afleveringen van An Evening of Today wordt nu de derde editie in de Donderdagavondserie van Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ gepresenteerd. In samenwerking met de ervaren musici van het ensemble treedt een internationale jonge garde componisten buiten de bekende kaders en gaat op zoek te naar ongehoorde klanken en verbindingen met andere disciplines. Manuel Sánchez García (Spanje), Genevieve Murphy (Schotland), Gunnar Gunnsteinsson (IJsland), Luke Deane (Engeland), Michalis Paraskakis (Griekenland) en Petra Strahovnik (Slovenië) vormen een bont gezelschap van alumni en masterstudenten van de conservatoria van Amsterdam en Den Haag. Enkele componisten delen als uitvoerder het podium met de NE-musici; video, belichting, elektronica en een illusionist zijn integraal onderdeel van de voorstelling. Zo levert An Evening of Today een kleurrijk beeld op van de ongelooflijke diversiteit in de muziek van vandaag.

De broedplaats die de afgelopen jaren in Amsterdam rond het Conservatorium en Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ is ontstaan, maakt de stad tot internationaal kruispunt en thuis voor jonge componisten en musici.

Componistenprojecten bieden jonge kunstenaars een podium om hun werk te laten horen. Jonge musici integreren in gevestigde ensembles als het NE, in samenwerking komen programma's tot stand waarbij de verantwoordelijkheid voor programmering, productie en pr wordt gedeeld. Componisten doen praktijkervaring op die waardevol is voor hun verdere ontplooiing en carrière in het muziekleven.

Deze organisch gegroeide ontwikkeling heeft bij het Nieuw Ensemble geleid tot het Platform Jonge Makers: een creatieve vrijplaats waar studerenden en net afgestudeerden zelfstandig projecten kunnen realiseren. Het platform is van levensbelang om excellente talenten kansen te bieden en het vruchtbare klimaat voor de nieuwe muziek te voeden.

Joël Bons (artistiek leider Nieuw Ensemble)

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introduction

Each year An Evening of Today is presented by the Nieuw Ensemble at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. The idea is to provide a platform for young composers to work together with professional musicians who are dedicated to new music. Thus, six young composers realize their projects in collaboration with the Nieuw Ensemble. The platform is vital to provide excellent talents opportunities to feed the fertile environment for new music in Amsterdam.

Gunnar Gunnsteinsson

Manuel Sánchez García

Lecture on Jón Leifur Gunnarsson with special attention to his Piece Nr. 3

aRPHe

There are secrets that, by being kept, allow us to experiment life in a more enhanced and mysterious way. Thus, aRPHe (capitals intended) is a piece that pursues the enhancement of the musical experience through mystery and secrecy. The twelve components of the Nieuw Ensemble will act, twice, as guides in this vespertine journey.

Gunnar Gunnsteinsson will do a short introductional lecture on the Icelandic composer Jón Leif Gunnarsson, with the help of the Nieuw Ensemble.

‘Jón Leifur Gunnarsson has had immense influence on me and many other musicians of my generation, in Iceland and Scandinavia.

His thoughts and music definitely deserves attention as well as his mysterious fate.’

The lecture will circulate around Jón’s Piece nr. 3.

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introduction

Michalis Paraskakis

Petra Strahovnik

Skostok is the name of an ancient King and all we know about him is that he existed. Brass coins with laureate Apollo and an equestrian with the inscription ‘Skostok’ is all that we have.

Human brains make assumptions about the surrounding environment (objects, actions, words, sounds). Astoundingly accurate assumptions. Reading, learning and solving problems come from this ability. Protecting us from insanity, hungry for new knowledge. With this ability come a few blind spots. All of us have them. The magician will use them to fool you and so will politics, marketing, religion, etc. Curse or gift? How can we ever be sure?

Skostok

Percept

Luke Deane

Melt Me Down The Plot: A wild child, deafened by a Long Range Audio Device (LRAD) sonic defence system, cannot sing because it can’t hear its own voice.

Genevieve Murphy Fine.

F.I.N.E - Fucked Insecure Neurotic Exhausted.

These works are inspired by perseverance, parody and connection.

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songtext Luke Deane – Melt Me Down I will not let them take, The spring out from my step.

Nor will I loose the voice of my friend.

I will carry my song so far inside my ear, That you can melt me down and never find it.

Never hear.

I asked my father, Will I be safe from this danger?

Avoid it, He said, And hung his head.

I asked my teacher and he said, There is danger Luke, In this war you wager.

A song, too loud to hear.

The melody an everlasting ringing in the ear.

And so I put it to you, That those untrained in the power of sound, Should not be employed by the government, To make it.

It comes to a burning point, A sound so loud it could kill, A sound so strong it would hurt.

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BIOGRAphies COMPOSERS Gunnar Gunnsteinsson

Gunnar Gunnsteinsson was born in Iceland. He was put, by his mother, in a recorder course at the age of 6. The recorder led Gunnar to the saxophone, the saxophone to marching bands and before he knew it he was performing the James Bond theme at a school-band festival in Malmö.

diploma from The Music College of Reykjavik. His career as a bass player (also the electric bass) includes playing in traditional orchestras, a balkan-rock band and in various pop- and jazz-bands.

By the time Gunnar was studying the double bass he started composing music. His first works were influenced by the music he played in the bands and orchestras.

In 2011 Gunnar decided to move to Amsterdam and study composition. In Amsterdam Gunnar got interested in electronics and he saw a great opportunity to compose and perform solo with electronic music. Recently, Gunnar is back into cooperations but this time he mostly seeks to work with other disciplines such as fine arts and dance. In the summer of 2014 he premiered, along with visual artist Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir, an installation in the Rongwrong gallery in Amsterdam, involving sculptures and musicians.

This led Gunnar to study the contrabass. In 2009 Gunnar finished his double bass8

Manuel Sánchez García

In his work Manuel Sánchez García often explores different aspects of the sound-time experience as related to lifeprocesses, ritual and, lately, also to calligraphy, his other big passion.

He’s currently studying Masters in Composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Wim Henderickx and Richard Ayres. In the past he studied composition in Seville, Madrid and Tallinn, working with composers such as

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Antonio J. Flores, David del Puerto and Toivo Tulev. Besides, Mauel had the opportunity to attend courses and masterclasses with several composers. His music has been performed in Estonia, Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain. Upcoming projects will be premiered in Germany, Turkey and the U.S.A.

Michalis Paraskakis

Michalis Paraskakis was born in Athens where he studied Graphic Arts & Design, as well as piano and accordion.

Since 2008 he has lived in The Hague where he finished his Bachelor and Master degrees in composition, with Yannis Kyriakides, Cornelis de Bondt, Diderik Wagenaar, Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz.

Michalis’ visual background impels him to meticulously ‘compose’ every aspect of his works, from the score to the final staging. He loves playing with the expectations and 9

limits of the listener, and he is particularly interested in sonic and performance ‘flaws’ and how they can be manipulated to create new sonic realms.

Michalis has worked as a composer or performer with notable ensembles (Asko|Schönberg, Ensemble Modelo62, Slagwerk Den Haag, ASKO Kamerkoor, KLANG Ensemble, Athens State Orchestra, Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music). His piece Not Yet II is included in MATA Festival New York in April, while his pieces Terpnon and Ark Futura were broadcasted on the Concertzender. As a singer/performer, he focuses on challenging and demanding roles, including Kassandra by Iannis Xenakis and Anaparastasis I by Jani Christou. His flexibility as an artist has brought him on stage with the Nederlands Dans Theater in 2013, in Karyn Benquet’s piece Ensuing, where he sang, improvised, and danced.

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Luke Deane

Luke Deane is a composer from Somerset, England.

Deane’s work is associated with the satirical ‘4th Viennese School’ of composition. He is most known for his collaborations, which include large scale sculpture and theatre works, and for his songs, which he performs under the guise of Lisa, his alter-ego.

Deane studied contemporary piano with John Law in Somerset before studying composition with Howard Skempton at Birmingham

Conservatoire from 2010 until 2014. Whilst in Birmingham, he studied alongside many composers including Richard Stenton, Cameron Dodds, Ryan Probert, Josh Herring, Ryan Latimer and James Oldham.

Deane’s feature-length light and sound show My Dream was premiered in Birmingham in April 2014. Deane’s work has been played on BBC Radio 3 and 6, featured on Resonance FM, and performed in a variety of concert venues and festivals worldwide. In July 2014, Deane was awarded the Birmingham Conservatoire Composition Prize joint with Richard Stenton for their collaborative work as electronics duo Intercalaris. He was also awarded the MU Bill Warman award for Most Promising Performer and Artist. Luke Deane lives in Amsterdam where he studies at the conservatory with Richard Ayres and Jorrit Tamminga.

He continues to work in Birmingham.

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Genevieve Murphy

After studying in the Junior department of Royal Conservatoire of Glasgow, Genevieve Murphy was accepted into Birmingham Conservatoire (2006) to study Bachelor of Music, joint honours, piano with Simon Nichols, and composition.

Genevieve Murphy received one to one tuition from influential composers such as Joe Cutler, Michael Wolters, Lamberto Coccioli, Howard Skempton, Edwin Roxburgh, Richard Ayres and Louis Andriessen.

Throughout the UK she has

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collaborated with artists. In 2009, Genevieve began working and performing piano with Martin Creed on his ballet Work 1020. This then lead to international concerts with his band, along with multiple performances of the ballet.

Genevieve graduated with Masters in Composition at The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague under the tuition of Martijn Padding and Yannis Kyriakides in June 2013. She became increasingly involved in contemporary dance, composing for choreographers such as David Middendorp (Korzo) and previous Nederlands Dans Theater dancer Natalia Horecna.

Since January 2014 Genevieve has continued to collaborate with and compose for performers and artists based in The Netherlands. The multidisciplinary composer has been accepted to study at DasArts Master of Theatre where she will begin in September 2015. There she will have time to focus on her performance concepts in combination with her compositions.

Petra Strahovnik

Petra Strahovnik was born in Celje, Slovenia. She finished composition with Uroš Rojko at the Music Academy in Ljubljana (2011) and Master Composition with Martijn Padding and Peter Adriaansz at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2014).

For her study Petra received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Slovenia as well as from the municipality Žalec, Slovenia. Her works range from solo, chamber, vocal, instrumental and orchestral music. Many of them have 11

been performed in festivals, seminars and workshops all over Europe. Between East and West for four percussionists won the MusMa Festival award and was performed in five countries across Europe.

In April 2012, she won both the Jury and the Audience award at the competition Biennale Koper 2012 with Awareness. In January 2011, Petra received the highest award from the University of Ljubljana for all of her musical achievements, the Academic Prešeren Award. In December 2013 her opera Becoming the System premiered by the Diamantfabriek and got positive reviews. Petra never bars by a traditional way of how we think about sound and music. She is also aware of the audiences’ perception of sound in space. She is working on research in art, discovering ‘mechanicalelectronic’ sounds, using rare earth magnets and mechanical sound speakers.

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PERFORMERS Gregory Charette

photo: James Oesi

Conductor

Gregory Charette was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned his B.M. in composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Lewis Nielson and participated in master-classes with Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, and Rebecca Saunders.

where his primary teachers were Jac van Steen and Kenneth Montgomery. In 2013 he earned his degree from the newly created National Masters in Conducting in The Netherlands. A fierce advocate of new music, Gregory studied with Pierre Boulez at the 2011 Luzern Festival and has served as conductor in the Holland Festival’s John Cage Centennial as well as the Aldeburgh Festival’s Emerging Composers Program, where he has worked closely with Oliver Knussen.

He is music director and founding member of Oerknal!, a contemporary music collective dedicated to reinventing the concert experience.

Aljaž Šon Magician

Aljaž Šon was born in Celje, Slovenia. From a very early age, he showed deep interest in all types of art forms, like painting, music, acting, dancing.

In 2004, Aljaž saw David Blaine on TV doing some incredible things, which could only be classified as Magic or Illusions. Because of his sceptical nature, Aljaž started researching online about this art form and found that these ‘secrets’ are not so secret anymore. He wanted to

Gregory moved to The Netherlands to study orchestral conducting at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 12

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create his own magic and not just perform other people’s effects. For the past ten years Aljaž has performed his brand of magic all over Europe. Two of his creations were published in MAGIC and Linking Ring, monthly periodicals for magicians.

Aljaž also lectures to other magicians.

Vinny Jones Light design

With a background as a performer, Vinny came to lighting design in 2002 via Het Veem Theater, a production house for contemporary Dutch mime. Another major influence on her work was the internationally renowned Dutch theatre collective Dogtroep, with whom she worked for 6 years.

In 2009 Vinny received an Honourable Mention at the World Stage Design exhibition in South Korea for the Dogtroep performance To be to not be.

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She graduated cum laude from the MFA Scenography at the Frank Mohr International Masters in 2013, her research exploring the use of light as a sensory medium that shapes the relationship between the audience and the stage. Vinny has worked in a wide range of genres from installations and experimental performances to large, site-specific works, to the stages of the Dutch and Czech Republic’s National Theatres. Her work can be distinguished by its desire to give light a formative role in the performance process and space, rather than simply a decorative one.

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Nieuw Ensemble The Nieuw Ensemble has a unique instrumental structure, using plucked instruments such as mandolin, guitar and harp in combination with wind, string and percussion. The lack of literature for this group makes it as dependent upon composers, as composers have always been upon musicians.

The Nieuw Ensemble has thus set out to build its own repertoire, encouraged by continuous contact with composers from different cultures, countries and generations, and longterm workshops for young composers. Since its foundation in 1980, more than seven hundred pieces have been written for the ensemble.

Ed Spanjaard has been the principal conductor since 1982.

for their ‘markedly lively and adventurous programming which can be described as ground-breaking, both in the literal and figurative senses of the word’. The ensemble introduced a large number of non-Western composers in premiere programmes focussing on Japan, the Caucasus, the Middle East and Central and South America.

Other highly successful programmes have been those dedicated to the work of a single composer, such as Berio, Boulez, Carter, Donatoni, Ferneyhough, Kagel, De Leeuw, Ligeti, Kurtág, Loevendie and Nono. www.nieuw-ensemble.nl

In 1998 the Nieuw Ensemble and its artistic director Joël Bons were awarded the Prince Bernhard Fund Music Prize 14

photo: Kadir van Lohuizen

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VERWACHT

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Nederlands Blazers Ensemble Die Fledermaus

Eerder zette het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble met groot succes drie Mozart-opera’s volledig naar eigen hand. Nu doet het iets soortgelijks met de meest gespeelde operette ooit, Die Fledermaus van Johann Strauss jr. Samen met sopraan Johannette Zomer, bariton Frans Fiselier en tenor Bernard Loonen gaat het ensemble aan de haal met deze komische huwelijksklucht. Vermomming, chaos en verwarring, het is deze uitmuntende musici op het lijf geschreven.

Johann Strauss jr. nam met zijn ‘Vleermuis’ de gewichtigdoenerige burgerij van zijn tijd flink op de hak. De kans is groot dat het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble met deze nieuwe productie de operette zélf op de hak neemt. De Telegraaf schreef over de uitvoering van Le Nozze di Figaro: ‘Wat hier klinkt is fantastisch … met eenvoudige middelen wordt een wonder van creativiteit op de planken gezet… een avond lang plezier zonder enige reserve.’

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Johann Strauss jr

VERWACHT

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Nieuw Ensemble Boulez 90

Van de giganten die het gezicht van de Europese kunstmuziek in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw bepaalden – Berio, Stockhausen, Ligeti, Kagel, Nono, Xenakis – is Pierre Boulez (1925) als enige nog in leven. Boulez’ invloed op de hedendaagse muziek is nauwelijks te overschatten. Het Nieuw Ensemble is sinds jaar en dag pleitbezorger van zijn werk. Het ensemble eert de maître vandaag op zijn 90e verjaardag met een prachtig portretconcert.

Pierre Boulez: schepper van een klein maar briljant en blijvend oeuvre, wereldberoemd dirigent met glasheldere techniek en loepzuiver oor, scherpzinnig denker/schrijver/polemist.

Verantwoordelijk voor de oprichting van het toonaangevende Ensemble Intercontemporain en het baanbrekende Ircam, het instituut waar wetenschappers, musici en componisten gezamenlijk nieuwe technologie ontwikkelen, is hij van onschatbaar belang voor de muziek van de toekomst.

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Pierre Boulez

VERWACHT

Februari

zo 22 feb / 20.30 uur / Kleine Zaal

zo 1 mrt / 15.30 uur / Waalse Kerk

vr 13 feb / 20.30 uur

Lydia Ainsworth The Rest Is Noise

Nederlands Kamerkoor In Amerikaanse kringen…

Insomnio In Vain

wo 25 feb / 20.15 uur

zo 1 mrt / 20.15 uur

za 14 feb / 20.15 uur

Ragazze Kwartet Haute Couture

Enrico Pace Ludus Tonalis

Calefax + Holland Baroque Society What if Bach…

do 26 feb / 20.15 uur

zo 15 feb / 20.15 uur

Bo Skovhus + Stefan Vladar Schuberts Schwanengesang do 19 feb / 20.15 uur

Nederlands Blazers Ensemble Die Fledermaus vr 20 feb / 20.15 uur

Severin von Eckardstein & friends Klarinet in de hoofdrol

Colin Currie & Ralph van Raat + gasten Bartók en Adams vr 27 feb / 21.00 uur

Die Frau Marlene Dietrich Pascal Schumacher + United Instruments of Lucilin

Sonic Acts 2015 The Geologic Imagination

do 5 mrt / 20.15 uur

za 28 feb / 20.15 uur

Asko|Schönberg Tintelfrisse reïncarnaties

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam Alla Madrigalesca

Maart

Amsterdam Sinfonietta + Terje Tønnesen De nieuwe jaargetijden

Masato Suzuki De dag van het ingenieuze orgel zo 1 mrt / 15.00 uur

zo 22 feb / 15.00 uur

Rick Stotijn Wat is het geheim van de contrabas (8+)

vr 6 mrt / 20.15 uur

Szymanowski Quartet Beethoven plus za 7 mrt / 20.15 uur

zo 1 mrt / 11.00 uur / Kleine Zaal za 21 feb / 20.15 uur

wo 4 mrt / 20.15 uur

Sweelinck Barokorkest Händel Operajuwelen

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Fatoumata Diawara African Life zo 8 mrt / 15.00 uur

Eric Vloeimans Wat is het geheim van de trompet? (8+) Geheimtips Bijzondere concerten die je niet mag missen

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