Image Credit: Mathew Knight, Kenyon Shankie and Jeff Avery NO MAN’S LAND

Composer: John Psathas Director: Jasmine Millet Cinematographer: Mathew Knight

FREE PROGRAMME Produced by Victoria University of .

With support from: The Lottery Grants Board, Adrian Durham, the British High Commission, the Polish Embassy, the French Embassy, the -France Friendship Fund, Radio New Zealand Concert, Park Road Post Production, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand Defense Force, and WW100.

Nau mai haere mai ki Te Ahurei Toi O Tāmaki Makaurau. Welcome to Auckland Arts Festival. We are delighted to host you.

The Festival moves through moments in history and reflects on the impact they have on our world. It moves across cultures and into places where there are no borders. It shows us human beings coming together through music, performance and art.

We are delighted to present this momentous and inspired multi-disciplinary work, and offer our thanks to the artists whose vision, hard work and passion made it happen. Congratulations John, Jasmine, Mathew and all the artists from around the world who participated in this ground- breaking work. And thank you to our commissioning partners and supporters.

Have a fabulous Festival.

Ngā mihi mahana—the Festival Team

2 NO MAN’S LAND

GREAT HALL, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL FRIDAY 4 MARCH, 8:00 PM

COMPOSER’S INTRODUCTION – JOHN PSATHAS

Why musicians travelling in the footsteps of soldiers 100 years ago? If we could go back in time and say to those on the battlefields “guess what happens here in 100 years” – would they believe us? If we said the same thing to those fighting now, would they believe us? Would we believe ourselves?

We now wage war on our own species. But even at our worst, humanity and empathy continue to survive. Our story culminates in acts of kindness: soldiers from opposing sides, ‘enemies’, offering each other water, a cigarette, a shoulder to lean on. Even – incredibly – in what is surely one of the most bizarre and dangerous inventions of the human mind: a place called no man’s land. 

ORIGINAL ARMENIAN LYRICS, FROM POSTLUDE (LAMENTOS) -

Gyanke mechernis voronoum e' Life is searching within us for a concert of Daak aryuni hantes boiling blood Mahe mezi modetsnum e' Death is getting us closer to the entrance of Eyoutian semi vaay Asdvadz Being Trakht yev djokhk Dear Ays gyankn e' Heaven and Hell, Martgutyioune haaverj goradz It's this life Manougi demkin unpidz sere Humanity eternally lost Haghtanagne' me'r jumpaan The pure love on the face of a child Is the victory, our road

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PROGRAMME NO MAN’S LAND

PART 1 JOURNEY PART 2 OH BELOVED Music David Downes & John Psathas Music John Psathas Featuring Renkei Hashimoto  ------Shakuhachi Ariana Tikao ------Voice Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui ------Voice Meeta Pandit ------Voice Women of the Polish Radio Choir ------Voice Marta Sebestyen ------Voice

 3 PART 3 SHELLSHOCK PART 4 SOUL OF MINE Music John Psathas Soundscape David Downes Featuring The Nudge Recitations Monsieur Claude ------Voice ------Catholic Svet Stoyanov The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque ------Davul ------Islam Alexej Gerassimez Himanshu Dixit ------Bass Drum ------Hindu Benjamin Schafer Michael Mandel ------Bass Drum ------Hebrew Bijan Chemirani Monseigneur Job ------Bendir ------Russian Orthodox Paolo Cimmino Transitions David Downes ------Tamorra Music John Psathas Shahbaz Hussain Polyphonic------Tabla Singing Gareth Lubbe Yanal Staiti Featuring Simone Rebello ------Dumbek ------Wind Chimes David Ross Kostas Theodorakos ------Snare Drum ------Marimba David Henderson Petros Kourtis ------Snare Drum ------Percussion Fara Diouf Andreas Pappas ------Djembe ------Percussion Refugees of Rap ------Voice

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4 PART 5 ANTHEM PART 6 POSTLUDE (LAMENTOS) Music John Psathas Melody Derya Turkan Featuring Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr Lyrics Serj Tankian ------Gaida, Bagpipes Ambient- Netherlands Blazers Ensemble Texture Russel Walder ------Wind and Bass Arrangement John Psathas Orchestre Philharmonique - Featuring Derya Turkan de Strasbourg, Tecwyn Evans ------Kemence ------Conductor Hayden Chisholm Danny Cudd ------Saxophone & Markus Johansson Nawras Alhajibrahim ------Hang Drum ------Bass Joshua Hyde The No Man’s Land Choir ------Saxophone ------Voice Svet Stoyanov Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi ------Davul ------Ney Alexej Gerassimez ------Bass Drum ------Taonga Pūoro Benjamin Schafer Children Isaac Pujji & Vivienne Pujji ------Bass Drum  Bijan Chemirani ------Bendir Paolo Cimmino ------Tamorra Shahbaz Hussain ------Tabla Yanal Staiti ------Dumbek David Ross ------Snare Drum David Henderson ------Snare Drum Fara Diouf ------Djembe Jack Hooker ------Guitar Mateusz Szemraj ------Guitar Polish Radio Choir ------Voice Pierre Mea ------Organ Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi ------Ney

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5 CREDITS

CREATIVE TEAM LIVE BAND

John Psathas (Composer/Producer) Joe Callwood (Guitar) Jasmine Millet (Director/Producer) James Illingsworth (Keyboards) Mathew Knight (Director of Photography) Vagelis Karipis (Percussion) George Kariotis (Sound Engineer) Jolanta Kossakowska (Violin & Voice) Roger Grant (Editor) Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Stratis Psaradelis (Lyra) Caleb Robinson (Bass)

LYRIC CREDITS

Original Lyrics Concept (Part 2) Translation Marco Sonzogni Hungarian Lyrics (Part 2) Marta Sebestyen & Lackfi Jάnos Hindi Lyrics (Part 2) Meeta Pandit Arabic Lyrics (Part 2) Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui Te Reo Māori Lyrics (Part 2) Ariana Tikao Armenian Lyrics (Part 6) Serj Tankian Arabic Lyrics (Part 3) Refugees of Rap

PRODUCTION TEAM AND CREW

Line Producer Pamela Cain Project Supervisor – Victoria University of Wellington Euan Murdoch Post Production Supervisor Roger Grant Second Camera Jeff Avery

Visual Effects/Projection & Concept Design Creature Post & Lakshman Anandanayagam

Set Design The Show Business & Pak Peacocke

Production Coordinator Eric Millet Production Assistant – Victoria University of Wellington Debbie Levy Emily Argyle Production Assistant Angela Cudd

Camera Assistant Daniela Conforte Vasconcellos

Creative Sound Design/Additional Percussion Arrangements Dave Downes Recording Engineer John Neill Graham Kennedy Lee Prebble Toby Lloyd Recording Engineer & Production Assistant Jack Hooker Production Assistant & Music Production Kenyon Shankie & Steffan Paton

Vocal Consultant Briar Prastiti

EARLY DEVELOPMENT TEAM RESEARCH

Marie Jones Jasmine Millet, Eric Millet Mike Wallis Heather McKay, Charlotte Clech, Inge Rademeyer Lemuel Lye 6 FIXERS

Poland - Krzysztof Szczuchniak, Tomasz Idzikowski, Andrzej Trzeciak Belgium - Freddie Declerck France - Andrei Brauns India - Mahesh Pillai, Amit Vachharajan

PRODUCTION FACILITIES

Story Shop, Conbrio Media, Creature Post, Sierra Recordings, The Surgery Studio, Radio New Zealand, Park Road Post Production, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music

ARCHIVES Archives New Zealand, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena – University of Otago, National Army Museum NZ, AP, Library of Congress, Imperial War Museums, British Library, ECPAD, National Library of New Zealand, National Library of , Sir George Grey Special Collections Auckland Libraries, AFP, San Diego Air & Space Museum, DPA, German Federal Archives, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Roger Viollet, Mary Evans Picture Library, Library & Archives , Canadian War Museum, Australian War Memorial, New South Wales State Library, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Shapoor Bhedwar – Not titled [group portrait of a family], c.1910.

7 ALL MUSICIANS AND NATIONALITIES Armenia/USA Serj Tankian (Voice/Lyrics) Australia Joshua Hyde (Saxophone) Bulgaria Svet Stoyanov (Percussion) France Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg Pierre Mea (Organ); Monsieur Claude (Gregorian Chant recitation) Germany Alexej Gerassimez (Percussion); Benjamin Schafer (Percussion) Stratis Psaradelis (Lyra); Vagelis Karipis (Percussion); Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Marta Sebestyen (Voice) India Meeta Pandit (Voice); Himanshu Dixit (Hindu Religious Recitation) Iran/France Bijan Chemirani (Percussion) Paolo Cimmino (Percussion) Japan Renkei Hashimoto (Shakuhachi) Morocco Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice) Netherlands/Belgium Netherlands Blazers Ensemble (Wind and Brass) New Zealand Tecwyn Evans (Conductor); Hayden Chisholm (Saxophone, Bagpipes); Caleb Robinson (Bass); Ariana Tikao (Voice/Lyrics); The Nudge; Iraia Whakamoe (Drums); Ryan Prebble (Guitar); James Coyle (Keyboards); Joe Callwood (Guitar); Jack Hooker (Guitar) Pakistan/UK Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla) Palestine Nawras Alhajibrahim (Bass); Yanal Staiti (Percussion) Poland Polish Radio Choir; Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr (Gaida, Bagpipes); Jolanta Kossakowska (Voice, Violin); Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar) Russia Monseigneur Job (Russian Orthodox recitation) Saudi Arabia The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque, Paris (Islamic Recitation) Scotland David Ross (Percussion), David Henderson (Percussion) Senegal Fara Diouf (Djembe) South Africa Gareth Lubbe (Polyphonic Singing) Sweden Markus Johansson (Hang Drum) Syria/Palestine Refugees of Rap - Yaser Jamous, Mohammed Jamous (Rap) Derya Turkan (Kemence/Composer); Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi (Ney) UK Danny Cudd (Hang Drum); Simone Rebello (Percussion) USA Russel Walder (Composer) ; Michael Mandel (Hebrew Religious Recitation)

OFF-SCREEN PERFORMERS

Greece Kostas Theodorakos (Percussion); Petros Kourtis (Percussion); Andreas Pappas (Percussion) Aotearoa Richard Nunns (Taonga Pūoro) Additional Musician Tom Callwood

SUPPORT Lottery Grants Board - New Zealand Lottery World War One Commemorations & Environment and Heritage Committee, Victoria University of Wellington, Park Road Post Production, Adrian Durham, British High Commission, New Zealand France Friendship Fund, New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Festival, Auckland Arts Festival, Radio New Zealand, Womad 2016, Tourmakers, New Zealand India Research Institute – Victoria University, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Wellington, Embassy of France in Wellington, The Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington, The Victoria University Foundation, Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music.

THANKS Grant Guilford, Frazer Allan, Neil Quigley, Helen Clark, Chris Finlayson, Celia-Wade Brown, Dilys Grant, Catherine Galuszka, Vicki Jackways, Dean Watkins, Nigel Scott, Rob Rabel, Sotiris Beckas, Nik Zahariadis, Simon Bowden, Lesley and Michael Shanahan, Jamie Selkirk, Rosalind Plimmer, Zbigniew Gniatkowski, Raynald Belay, Anne-Christine Roussel, Joel Watson, Embassy of Poland in Wellington, The Embassy of France in Wellington, British High Commission, High Commission of India in Wellington, Embassy of Greece in Wellington, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand High Commission London, New Zealand Embassy Warsaw, New Zealand Embassy Brussels, New Zealand Embassy Paris, Goethe Institute, WW100 Project Office, ACAP Pole d’Images, Film Lorraine, The team at the Wellington Quarry, Arras, Mayor of Arras, Urszula Wojnar, Lidia Morawska, Office of Tourism Verdun, Screen Auckland, Carla Psathas, Anita McKegg, Tricia Walbridge, Cheryl , Shelagh Murray, Kirsten McDonald

8 BIOGRAPHIES

JOLANTA KOSSAKOWSKA – Joe has worked with singer/composer/multi- VIOLIN/VOICE instrumentalist Warren Maxwell in Little Bushman, Jolanta plays medieval fiddles, touring extensively through Australasia and gęśle and baroque violin. She recording three studio albums. Joe first met John is a songwriter and composer Psathas when John was enlisted to write the for theatre and film and has orchestral arrangements for Little Bushman’s Live in participated in several Concert with the New Zealand Symphony projects combining different Orchestra. musical genres, for instance, Other recent projects include writing, performing Warszawa, Tribute to Joy Division (2007) and and recording with instrumental quartet The Etnofonie Kurpiowskie (2011). Jolanta has held Woods, working with composer Tom McLeod concerts with various early music and recording guitar for the Art of Recovery contemporary ensembles (Dekameron, Ars Nova, documentary, more film score recording on Ars Antiqua, Sine Nomine Kwadrofonik). She is also another Psathas project Good For Nothing, and a a guest performer of international music projects five year stint teaching guitar at the New Zealand and festivals, such as Baltic Masters (DK), Euro-Med School of Music. Festival (HU/PL/SRB), Korean-Polish Jazz Mosaics, and No Man's Land (NZ). Jolanta is the STRATIS PSARADELLIS – LYRA frontwoman of MOSAIK, fusing the traditional Stratis is a musician who musics of Poland, the Mediterranean and the focuses on Greek and Middle Middle East. She composes and performs feminist Eastern . Born in music with Pochwalone. She also took part in the Athens, he studied at the ethno-punk R.U.T.A. project, and was awarded Music High School of Pallini, with Polityka's Passport (category pop music), an specialising on the saz as a annual prestigious Polish award presented by the student of Periklis weekly magazine Polityka. Jolanta is a recipient of Papapetropoulos. He has also the Golden Fiddle Special Award part of the New studied with saz masters Talip Ozkan and Mehmet Tradition Festival. Erenler at Labyrinth Musical Workshop in Crete. Self -taught in politiki lyra (lyre of Istanbul or classical JOE CALLWOOD – GUITARS kemence), he enriched his performance skills Joe graduated from the studying with Sokratis Sinopoulos and Derya Turkan. Wellington Conservatorium of Stratis has performed and recorded extensively in Music in 1995 after which he Europe, the USA, Canada and the Middle East, as worked as a freelance a sought after diverse instrumentalist, playing the performer and teacher and lyra, lavta and saz. He has collaborated with many met saxophonist/composer/ artists including Ross Daly, Marta Sebestyen, improvisor Jeff Henderson. Joe Loreena McKennitt, Zohar Fresco, Murat Aydemir, joined Henderson’s Syzygy Creative Music Sarband Ensemble, OnEira 6tet, Giasemi and Nikos Ensemble, touring NZ and recording on their debut Saragoudas, Chronis Aidonidis, Christos Tsiamoulis, album Tongue Grooves. Nikos Grapsas, Antonis Apergis, Martha Mavroidi, He performed with other of Henderson’s Katerina Papadopoulou, and Maria Simoglou. ensembles and became involved with the Stratis completed a Bachelor Degree in Wellington improvised music scene. This led to Musicology at the National and Kapodistrian performances with Dutch improviser Kris Wanders, University of Athens. Since 1999, he has taught The William Parker Big Band, Rosie Langabeer’s traditional Greek instruments at the Music High Zirkus, and in 2002 an album of largely improvised School of Pallini. chamber style music with Arc Trio. More recently

9 CALEB ROBINSON – BASS moved to Istanbul to study the kanun with leading Caleb performs original music in exponents of the instrument such as Ahmet Meter collaboration with many and Hakan Gungor to learn technique and Omer recognised NZ artists. Performing Erdogdular and Necati Celik (Eastern theory- internationally has strengthened maqams). his resolve to experience and As a soloist she has collaborated with some of the understand other most prominent traditional and alternative cultures. However, his heart musicians, actors, directors and ensembles in remains in Aotearoa which has its own style of Greece and abroad such as: D. Samiou, Chronis musical expression, reflecting the diverse cultures of Aidonidis, A. Apergis, Glikeria, Oresti Karamanli, his South Pacific homeland and own Māori/ Interstellar Overdrive, Kostas Dimouleas, John European heritage. Caleb attained a high level Psathas, Karolos Voutsinas, Giorgos Trandalidis, of achievement at both the New Zealand School of Thanasis Moraitis, Kostas Kastanas, Elsa Stavridou, Music and Victoria University. He specialises in Evi Dimitropoulou, Claire Bloom, Marta Sebestyen, upright bass, as well as the electric and synth bass, Kalman Balog, Dominique Vellard, Noureddine exploring jazz improvisation, pacific Tahiri, Victoria Herenzar, Haig Yazdjian, Ross Daly, grooves, psychedelic rock and many other genre. Ballake Sissoko, Mamak Khadem, Efrin Lopez, Niyazi Sayin, Omer Erdogdular,Derya Turkan, Ahmet JAMES ILLINGWORTH – Erdogdular, Necati Celik, Ulas Ozdemir, Mehmet KEYBOARDS Gureli, Lamia Bedioui, Naziha Azzouz, Babuba Big James is known for his emotive Bang Orchestra, God Save the Rest trio, "THRIA" improvisational jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra of Athen's municipality, performances. He studied and others. Between 2005 and 2011, she taught at from an early age and it Odeio Athinon, the Music School of Athens. Since was apparent he would follow a 2012 she has been teaching at "Nakas" Conservatory. career in music. James graduated with a BMus from VANGELIS KARIPIS – PERCUSSION the Wellington Conservatorium and has gone on to Born in Athens, Vangelis is one of work with many artists and musicians at home and Greece’s most electrifying and abroad. Recently, he has collaborated and toured progressive percussionists. with Australian hip hop group Bliss N Eso; composed Widely considered to be one of and produced eclectic Māori music on the the leading exponents, teachers, album Āiotanga alongside his wife and and pioneers of percussion singer Kirsten Te Rito; played and performed performance from Greece and on Mantis: The Music of Drew Menzies - a fusion of Asia Minor, he has performed as jazz and string quartets and guested on the a soloist and with his percussion trio Krotala latest Trinity Roots album, Citizen. James resides in throughout Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and NZ. Wellington, New Zealand. Vangelis has collaborated with superstars of folk music such as Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Dalaras, SOFIA LABROPOULOU – KANUN Natacha Atlas, Ara Dinkjian, Haig Yazdjian, Doman Sofia has been playing Kanun Samiou, Loreena McKennitt and Eleni Karaindrou. since 1997. She graduated from Pallini music school and was awarded a diploma in Byzantine music under the tutelage of S. Pavlakis. She studied piano with Nelly Semitekolo and Eleni Zacharaki, classical percussion with K. Vorisis and K. Thodorakos and traditional percussion with V. Karipis in Greece. In 2003 she 10 LOCATIONS AND ARTISTS

Part 1: Part 5: Massif fortifie de Souville, Verdun, France Fort I, Przemysl, Poland: Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France [Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr (Gaida, Bagpipes)] Fort Douaumont, Verdun, France Frise Sur Somme, France: Przemysl, Poland [Netherlands Blazers Ensemble] Muriwai Beach, Auckland, New Zealand Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: Wellington, New Zealand [Jack Hooker (Guitar), Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar)] Flanders, Belgium Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: Lille, France [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino] Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: Verdun, France [Danny Cudd & Markus Johansson (Hang Drum)] Paris, France Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: Krakow, Poland [Joshua Hyde (Saxophone)] Frise Sur Somme, France Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Passendale, Belgium [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Part 2: Schafer (Bass Drum)] Passendale, Belgium Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Whitirea Park, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand: [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain [Ariana Tikao (Voice)] (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Paris, France: Reims Cathedral, France: [Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice)] [Pierre Mea (Organ)] Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: Strasbourg Orchestra, Strasbourg, France [Meeta Pandit (Voice)] Massif fortifie de Souville, Verdun, France Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France [Marta Sebestyen (Voice)] Part 6: Part 3: Waikanae Beach, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Muriwai Beach, Auckland, New Zealand: Fort Douaumont, Verdun, France: [Serj Tankian (Voice)] [The Nudge; Ryan Prebble, Iraia Whakamoe, James Coyle] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Schafer (Bass Drum)] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino)] Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France Galleries Guinot, Verdun, France: [Refugees of Rap]

Part 4: Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Passendale, Belgium Reims Cathedral, Reims, France: [Catholic Recitation - Monsieur Claude] Grand Mosque of Paris, France: [Islamic Recitation - The Grand Mufti] Hindu Temple, Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: [Hindu recitation - Himanshu Dixit] Tempel Synagogue, Krakow, Poland: [Hebrew Recitation - Mike Mandel] Cathedrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsk, Paris, France: [Russian Orthodox - Monseigneur Job] Carriere Wellington, Arras, France: [Gareth Lubbe - Polyphonic Voice] Douamont Ossuary, Verdun, France Hooglede German Cemetery, Belgium Noyelles-Sur-Mer Chinese cemetary, Somme, France Tyne Cot cemetery, Ypres Salient, Belgium To find out more about the project, please visit: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Argonne, France Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France http://www.nomanslandproject.org/ Somme river, France

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