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ECSA INVITES YOU TO THE CONCERT OF THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO) FEATURING T H E ENSEMBLE HOPPER CONDUCTED BY FRANÇOIS DEPPE BRUSSELS, 19 FEBRUARY 2019 — LE SENGHOR, CENTRE CULTUREL D’ETTERBEEK — CHAUSSÉE DE WAVRE 366, 1040 BRUSSELS ABOUT ECCO THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO) Imprint ECCO is an ECSA project dedicated to performing and promoting contemporary Biographies and programme notes written by the composers, the conductor and art music and to reaching new audiences. It operates as a network of active the ensemble: Talia Amar, Gilles Doneux, Jan Flessel, Sampo Haapamäki, Gaëlle ensembles, orchestras and young professionals, supporting the creative Hyernaux, Maija Hynninen, Gyula Pintér, François Deppe and Ensemble Hopper dialogue between composers and performers and offering young professionals the opportunity to develop their skills with ensembles experienced in Editor: Alicja Swierczek, Alfonso Guerra performing contemporary music on an international level. The concert series Designer: Meriem Steiner taking place bi-annually in various countries serve to circulate repertoire across European borders and help promoting current repertoire and Europe’s musical diversity. Please note: BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT, YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT TO HAVE PICTURES The ECCO concert, and other cultural projects organised by ECSA, aim at AND VIDEO MATERIAL OF YOU TAKEN THAT MAY BE USED IN PUBLICATIONS increasing the visibility of ECSA and all the issues connected to the status OR MARKETING IN RELATION TO THIS EVENT. of contemporary music creators. Pieces are received via a call to all ECSA member societies and are carefully selected to reflect the cultural and aesthetical diversity of European contemporary music in the 21st century. In 2015, two ECCO concerts were held, one in Brussels and one in London. The first one was performed by theSturm und Klang ensemble and conducted by Thomas van Haeperen. The second one was performed by the BBC Singers and conducted by James Morgan. In 2016, ECCO presented three very successful concerts performed by Sturm und Klang, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Big Band of RTV Slovenia. In February 2017, the ECCO Symphony Wind Orchestra concert featured the Sturm und Klang ensemble and was conducted by Thomas van Haeperen. In October 2017, the concert featured the renowned Wiener Concert-Verein string orchestra ensemble which was conducted by two students from the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Svetlomir Zlatkov and Lorenz Müller. In 2018, two ECCO concerts were held again, one in Brussels and one in Belgrade. The first one was featured at Flagey, by the prominent ensembleQuatuor Diotima. The second one was performed by the RTS Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Bojan Suđić. Tonight’s concert will feature the Ensemble Hopper conducted by François Deppe, The European Commission support for the production of this publication who will perform pieces by the following composers: Talia Amar (Israel), Gilles does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views Doneux (Belgium), Jan Flessel (Denmark), Sampo Haapamäki (Finland), Gaëlle only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Hyernaux (Belgium), Maija Hynninen (Finland) and Gyula Pintér (Hungary). ABOUT ECSA PROGRAMME THE EUROPEAN COMPOSER AND 19 FEBRUARY 2019 — BRUSSELS SONGWRITER ALLIANCE The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) represents over WELCOMING WORDS 30,000 professional composers and songwriters in 26 European countries BY including Israel. With 57 member organisations across Europe, the Alliance LORENZO CARÒLA speaks for the interests of music creators of art and classical music Director of the Forum des Compositeurs and (contemporary), film and audiovisual music, as well as popular music. member of the ECCO Artistic Committee The main objective of the Alliance is to defend and promote the rights of authors of music at the national, European and international levels by any WINNOWING legal means. It advocates for equitable commercial conditions for composers MAIJA HYNNINEN and songwriters and strives to improve social and economic development of music creation in Europe. GESTURES NO. 1 (PRESENTIMENT) GYULA PINTÉR ECSA was initiated in 2006 in Vienna within the framework of the Mozartjahr. It was established as an alliance in March 2007 in Madrid with the purpose STUDIES FOR PIANO TRIO – of becoming the central organisation representing the interests of all music 3 DEPICTIONS OF NIGHT creators in Europe, giving every composer and songwriter a European voice. JAN FLESSEL LOGO SAMPO HAAPAMÄKI INTERMISSION TRIANGULATION TALIA AMAR AVATAR GAËLLE HYERNAUX DEFRAGMENTATION 2 GILLES DONEUX MAIJA HYNNINEN BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: WINNOWING Maija Hynninen – composer and sound artist – is working in the areas of concert Winnowing – separating the grain from the chaff, letting the wind blow the music, electronic instrument design and multidisciplinary performances. The lighter parts away; or the sound made as the air flows through the tail feathers essence of her music builds on the unique moments where the parameters of certain big species of bird during mating. My original idea was to compose of this world are slightly altered to allow a glimpse of another reality to be music that would relate to Messiaen’s “La Fauvette des jardins”. I started to plan present. It can be a moment where the timbre of purely acoustical writing the piece thinking of the relationship between birdsong and electronics. gives surprising results or when electronics project sounds into another domain, another space and reality. I was constantly traveling at the time and started little by little to think about the movement of birds: the migrating flocks of birds of the autumn and spring She entered the Sibelius Academy in 2003 (M.Mus. 2011) to study with Paavo amongst the old maple trees of the central park in Stuttgart, wild geese and Heininen while she was also working for a violin diploma at the Norwegian that single lonely swan which decided to spend its winter in Stuttgart taking Academy of Music. The studies in electronics continued at IRCAM, cursus 2012-13. off and landing on the subtly fluctuating surface of the pond: stir, quiver and She is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, with Franck Bedrossian, Ken slowly decreasing vibrations of water. Simultaneously, I found myself to be Ueno, Edmund Campion and Cindy Cox as her professors. more and more interested in the subtlest timbres of the piano. I listened to the softly shivering piano harmonics through headphones and wanted to surround She is also doing a PhD in electro-acoustic music at Sibelius Academy. She was the audience with this gentle sound to let the audience experience the subtle amongst the finalists in Feeding Music - International Composition Contest, timbre changes of these sounds and relax inside this fragile soundworld. organised by Divertimento Ensemble and EXPO Milano 2015. Her music has been presented and commissioned by YLE, Helsinki Chamber Choir, Avanti! Winnowing is composed and dedicated to Jaana Kärkkäinen and it was composed Chamber Orchestra, the International Maj Lind Piano Competition, Camilla with the support of The Sibelius Fund — Society of Finnish Composers. The Hoitenga and Eija Kankaanranta among others. electronics were made at SACMUS — Sibelius Academy Computer Music Studio by the composer. © Maarit Kytöharju GYULA PINTÉR BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: GESTURES NO. 1 (PRESENTIMENT) Gyula Pintér was born in Hungary in 1954. He studied piano with Lídia Csebiss, Presentiment is a notion based on a physical contradiction because we proceed and composition with Zoltán Pongrácz and János Kautsky (The Netherlands). from the past through the present into the future. Since 1978, he has been conducting electroacoustic musical experiments in his studio, which he designed himself. Do we feel the future in the present or does the future send a message to the past? He has been participating in musical and fine arts events and festivals since This can start an exciting train of thoughts in anyone who is able to see among 1980. Mr. Pintér has contributed to numerous art events, performances and the obvious facts of the present the exceptional which suggests the future. theatrical productions both in Hungary and abroad. In recent years, he won prizes at several competitions, including: Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in 1989 and 2001; Hungarian Radio’s EAR International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in 1992, 1995 and 1999; and Ferenc Erkel Prize in 2012. © Vera Maros JAN FLESSEL BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: STUDIES FOR PIANO TRIO – 3 DEPICTIONS OF NIGHT Jan Flessel, born 1982 in Halle an der Saale, is a composer and sound designer Studies for Piano Trio – 3 Depictions of Night based in Copenhagen, Denmark. for Violin, Violoncello, Piano, Video and Audio – Playback His works range from orchestral and chamber music, with and without I. From Night to Light electronics, to electronic music as well as music and sound design for II. To Hear and Listen at Night computer games. He studied composition with Peter Manfred Wolf, Georg III. Into the Darkness Friedrich Haas and Simon Steen-Andersen in Rostock, Basel and Aarhus. He also studied game design in Copenhagen. “At night new orders of connection assert themselves: sonic, olfactory, tactile. The sensorium is transformed. Associations swarm