klangspuren www.klangspuren.at schwaz tirol international ensemble modern academy in tyrol 01.09. – 14.09.09 composers in residence m. matalon j. m. staud iema 09 2 3 CONTENTS PREFACE Application form ........................................................................................... 1 Last year, more than 100 people from nearly 40 nations applied Preface .............................................................................................................. 3 for IEMA, thus making it one of the most successful projects of International Ensemble Modern Academy .................................. 4 Klangspuren Festival. The design is international, the participants Call for applications IEMA Schwaz 2009 ........................................ 6 young and highly talented, and the composers in residence and the Composers in residence 2009: M. Matalon | J. M. Staud .... 8 solo artists of Ensemble Modern Frankfurt guarantee a multifaced Programme ..................................................................................................... 10 and immediate experience of contemporary music. When | Where | Costs ................................................................................. 12 Requirements & application procedure .......................................... 13 György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Benedict Mason, Wolfgang Rihm, Michael Gielen and Steve Reich are the important and formative figures of the last decades of contemporary music, festival klangspuren who, as composers in residence, have left their distinctive marks upon the past editions of IEMA at Klangspuren Schwaz. focus on latin america For its sixth edition, IEMA and Klangspuren Schwaz will present 10.09. - 27.09.09 two artists who will broaden the horizon of the “composers in residence”- concept: composer Martin Matalon is an important composers in residence figure especially in the French music scene. Being from m. matalon, j. m. staud Argentina, he bridges biographically to Klangspuren Schwaz 2009 focus on contemporary music from Latin America. The young Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud was introduced by Ensemble Modern. At least since the performance Publisher’s Imprint | Editor and Organiser: Klangspuren Schwaz Contents: Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Klangspuren Schwaz of his APEIRON by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Texts: Klangspuren Schwaz, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Rattle, he has become one of the most sought-after composers www.martinmatalon.com, Tobias Fischer of the younger generation. Some of his pieces have received Photos: Astrid Karger, Klangspuren, Nicolas Botti, Jonathan Irons Graphic design: Irene Daz, www.dazdesign.at, Print: Steigerdruck, Axams their premiere within Klangspuren festival. After the splendidly performed academy concerts of the last years, we have decided to open the workshop concert for the audience and to trust the young artists of IEMA again with not one, but two concerts in Klangspuren Festival’s main programme and again an appearance at the festival transart in Bolzano. Peter Paul Kainrath Artistic director, Klangspuren Schwaz iema 09 4 5 INTERNATIONAL ENSEMBLE MODERN ACADEMY The International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) was The International Composition Seminar, directed by Helmut founded in Frankfurt am Main in summer 2003. It represents Lachenmann and Franck Ollu was held in cooperation with the the continuation of what has been Ensemble Modern’s main Allianz Kulturstiftung for the first time in 2004. In 2005 the goal for over 25 years –highest quality, joy of performing, seminar featured George Benjamin, and Paris-based IRCAM interdisciplinary art projects and internationality. Since its agreed to cooperate in the project. The final concerts were formation 25 years ago, EM has been committed to interac- held in Frankfurt and Paris in December 2005. Hanspeter Kyburz ting closely with artists and their works. Gaining extensive and Stefan Asbury were the lecturers of 2006/07. The and highly diverse knowledge of 20th century music, EM programme will continue in 2008/09 with Johannes Kalitzke. has become the “memory of modern music”. The master courses were held in Japan and Korea in 2005, IEMA is committed to the same spirit. It is a dynamic place and every year since 2004 at the Paxos Spring Festival in where young artists have the opportunity to learn, communicate, Greece and at the festival Klangspuren in Schwaz, Austria. discuss, experiment, and profit from this memory in a variety In 2008, another master course took place in Tokyo. of ways. IEMA offers study grants, master courses, education programmes for teachers and symposiums, all of which aim to foster the artistic discourse between highly qualified young artists and renowned figures from the fields of culture and research. Since its formation, IEMA has awarded study grants to young musicians, conductors, composers and sound directors who receive personal tutoring in contemporary solo composition and chamber music by members of EM for one year. This grant programme was initiated in cooperation with Kunststiftung NRW. Thanks to funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation, IEMA has been able to offer study grants to students nationwide since 2004, doubling the number of grant recipients and lengthening the grant period from six months to one year. IEMA study grants have now been awarded six times. Since 2006, they have been awarded worldwide as an International Ensemble Modern Academy - Master‘s Degree Programme at the Frankfurt University of Music and the Performing Arts. www.internationale-em-akademie.de iema 09 6 7 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IEMA SCHWAZ 2009 In September 2009, members of Ensemble Modern will hold All this is contrasted with a very different film aesthetic: ever master classes at Klangspuren Schwaz for the sixth time since the Twenties of the last century, various directors sought through cooperation of the International Ensemble Modern the challenge of making “nature-realistic” mountain films in high Academy (IEMA) and Klangspuren Festival Schwaz. alpine areas, under the most difficult technical conditions. As early as 1921, director Arnold Fanck produced one of the Composers Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Benedict first monumental mountaineering films: Im Kampf mit dem Mason, Wolfgang Rihm and Steve Reich were featured in the Berge [In Sturm und Eis] (Fighting the mountain [in storm past years. This year, for the first time, two composers in and ice]), nearly 90 minutes long. The young Paul Hindemith residence will accompany the course: Martin Matalon (1958) happened to be in Freiburg when Fanck worked there on and Johannes Maria Staud (1974). Johannes Maria Staud, born editing his film. The composer was so impressed by the in Innsbruck, is the first Tyrolean composer to be portrayed “musical” visual language (“visual symphony”) that, within by Klangspuren. In addition to this internationally acclaimed a few weeks, he composed a score for the film without fee, young Austrian, Martin Matalon will provide a Latin American thus producing one of the first original compositions for perspective. Ensemble Modern has worked closely with both film ever. Unfortunately, Fanck’s original work has been lost, composers in 2007, premiering both Stauds Berenice Suite I and only a 54-minute version edited by Lothar Prox remains. and II and Matalon’s new score to Fritz Lang’s legendary 1927 Accordingly, a shortened version of Hindemith’s score is used. silent film Metropolis. Together with the Ensemble Modern docents, conductor “Film and Music” are also the second focus of the master class. Franck Ollu and composers Martin Matalon and Johannes Following his success with Metropolis, Matalon turned to the Maria Staud, who will be present, the course participants work of the Spanish director Luis Buñuel. Especially Buñuels will study the pieces of two main programmes to be performed Le chien andalou is known as the surrealist fi lm and was the in three public concerts during Klangspuren Schwaz and director’s fi rst collaboration with Salvador Dalí. Buñuel himself the film festival transart in Bolzano. added the score for the silent fi lm’s premiere in 1929 by alterna- tely playing music from Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde and Additionally, other important pieces of contemporary reper- Argentinean tangos on the gramophone. Le chien andalou has toire are going to be rehearsed, a selection of which will be fascinated and inspired various composers. Matalon’s Las siete performed in a workshop concert at the end of the course. vidas de un gato and Wolfgang Rihms Bild (from his cycle Chiffren) It is possible to include solo pieces in the course providing will be rehearsed in the master class as exemplary pieces. they have been agreed on beforehand. iema 09 8 9 COMPOSERS IN RESIDENCE 2009 JOHANNES MARIA STAUD Contemporary composers often have to deal with an image of MARTIN MATALON grumpy young man feeding on a diet of too much coffee, cigarettes Born in Buenos Aires in 1958, Martin Matalon received his Bachelor and Kant while facing a lifetime of fi ghting against the expectations degree in Composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music In of an incomprehensive audience and a conservative establishment. 1984, and in 1986 his Master‘s degree from the Juilliard School of The career of Johannes Maria Staud, meanwhile, seems to have Music. In 1989, having initiated himself in conducting with Jacques- been extremely fl uent. Louis Monod, he founded Music Mobile, a New York-based ensemble