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KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Brussels Guitar www.brusselsartsplatform.be Laboratory Rethinking the six-string Icon 27, 28 & 29 April 2018 KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Brussels Guitar Laboratory Rethinking the Six-String Icon An initiative of guitar professor Antigoni Goni, the KCB Research Department, and Brussels Arts Platform 27, 28 & 29 April 2018 KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Dear friends and music lovers, It is with great pride and joy that we present to you the Brussels Guitar Laboratory. From the 27th to the 29th of April, our inspiring, innovative, and daring doctoral students will share with you their research journeys, through which curiosity, passion, and creativity have been their compass. In their hands our instrument unfolds its full potential, which is bound to surprise even the most seasoned aficionado. Join us for three days of recitals and workshops to feel the thrill of discovery and be transported by the guitar’s unique allure. Antigoni Goni Professor of Guitar Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel Brussels Guitar Laboratory | 3 KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Brussels Guitar Laboratory Rethinking the Six-String Icon After decades as a popular icon, shedding new light on the guitar should cast some interesting shadows. In a series of concerts and workshops, PhD students and researchers of the Brussels Royal Conservatory’s guitar studio beat unconventional tracks to and from their beloved instrument. Gut strings, motion sensors, excavations of mechanical debris, imagined bows, and symbiotic choreography. This is not the guitar you know, but surely one you are curious to meet. Brussels Guitar Laboratory | 5 SCHEDULE Friday | 27 April 2018 At 8pm CONCERT Seis Doncellas Bailan by Yiannis Efstathopoulos Tempelzaal, Kleine Zavel 5 Saturday | 28 April 2018 From 11 am till 12.30 pm WORKSHOP What Guitarists Can Learn from Bow Technique by Kostas Tosidis Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 From 2pm till 3.30 pm WORKSHOP The Guitar in the IT Revolution by Pierre Bibault Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 From 4 pm till 5.30 pm WORKSHOP Guitar technique in Spanish High-Romanticism by Yiannis Efstathopoulos Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 At 8 pm CONCERT Bricolage by Maarten Stragier, Flesh and Wood by Luca Isolani Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 6 | Rethinking the Six-String Icon KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Sunday 29 | April 2018 From 11 am till 12.30 pm WORKSHOP Percussion Techniques on Classical Guitar by Luca Isolani Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 From 2pm till 3.30 pm WORKSHOP Bricolage by Maarten Stragier Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 From 4pm till 5 pm ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION, moderated by pianist Jan Michiels Room A028, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 At 6pm CONCERT A Portrait of Zad Moultaka by Pierre Bibault and Tokens: A Century of Modern Guitar Music by Kostas Tosidis Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 at 6 pm RESERVATION/ INSCRIPTION For the concerts: Free admission on condition of reservation by e-mail to [email protected] For the workshops: participation in all workshops is free. Those interested in active participation can send an e-mail to [email protected] with the workshops in which they would like to enroll, their personal information, and (if applicable) their school and year of study. Spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis Brussels Guitar Laboratory | 7 CONCERTS Friday | 27 April 2018 | 8pm Tempelzaal Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Kleine Zavel 5 Free admission on condition of reservation by e-mail to [email protected] Seis Doncellas Bailan Yiannis Efstathopoulos In the second half of the 19th century, guitarists Arcas and Tárrega collaborated with luthier Antonio de Torres to lay the foundation for the classical guitar as we know it. A few decades later, that same instrument would ride a wave of neoclassicism and nationalism to become an icon of Spanish culture. Manuel de Falla, as well as composers of the influential Generation ’27, began to write for the guitar. They were drawn to its rich heritage, which had one foot in the illustrious Spanish renaissance and baroque and the other in vibrant folklore. Yet at the same time the music they wrote stood firmly in the present, looking beyond their native culture to the impressionist developments in Paris. Thus the guitar came to inhabit a space between the popular and intellec- tual, between exoticism and modernism. In an intimate recital on gut-string guitar, Yiannis Efstatholpoulos pays homage to this seminal diversity by returning to its origin—Garcia Lorca’s six dancing maidens, three of flesh, three of silver. Program Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) Capricho Arabe Rosa García Ascot (1902-2002) Española Gustavo Pittaluga (1906-1975) Homenaje á Mateo Albeniz Salvador Bacarisse (1898-1963) Pavane Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987) Giga Julián Arcas (1832-1882) Murcianas (dedicated to Antonio de Torres) Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Homenaje (Le Tombeau de Debussy) Julián Bautista (1901-1961) Preludio y Danza Ángel Barrios (1882-1964) 2 Little Pieces Sabicas (1912-1990) Zapateado 8 | Rethinking the Six-String Icon KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL Saturday | 28 April 2018 | 8pm Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 Free admission on condition of reservation by e-mail to [email protected] Bricolage Maarten Stragier Bricolage is the ability to use whatever one finds and recombine it to create something new. Done right it can be delectably subversive; it can expose the cracks and contradictions in our everyday preconceptions. This is certainly the case for the music of composers José Maria Sánchez-Verdú and Mauricio Pauly. Veritable “junkyard virtuosos,” both decided to rummage through the historic discards of the beloved guitar in order to create new instruments. Maarten Stragier performs the result: a classical guitar that has shed its insecurities about dynamic range and finds full expression in hyper-intimate chamber music; and an electric guitar stripped of its machismo swagger and swallowed whole by a mesmerizing noise-scape of electronic glitches. Program José Maria Sánchez-Verdú Tres Caprichos (2005) Mauricio Pauly Sky Destroys Dog (2014, rev. 2016) Flesh and Wood Luca Isolani Percussion has become an increasing part of the guitarist’s toolbox. This physical interaction with the instrument alters how we relate to it. In this light, our old practices are inevitably reconfigured. This reconfiguration has generated a wealth of inspiration for players and composers alike. Luca Isolani gives us a sampling from a century of experimentation: Turina evokes the clicking heels of flamenco dancers; Petrassi paints a nocturnal scene with a palette of mesmerizing timbres; and guitarist-composers D’Angelo and Ryan daftly expand playing technique toward a virtually seamless integration of newfound percussive possibilities. Program Joaquìn Turina Fandanguillo Op.36 (1929) Gofffredo Petrassi Suoni Notturni (1959) Nuccio D’Angelo Electric Suite (1995) Funky Soft Raga-Blues Song Gary Ryan Benga Beat (2011) Brussels Guitar Laboratory | 9 CONCERTS Sunday | 29 April 2018 | 6pm Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 Free admission on condition of reservation by e-mail to [email protected] A portrait of Zad Moultaka Pierre Bibault Pierre Bibault delves into the work of French-Lebanese composer and visual artist Zad Moultaka. If this is your first encounter with Moultaka’s music, the European premiere of Kahraba for electric guitar and electronics will no doubt make it a memorable one. Existing in sound as well as a caligraphic copper engraving, this work puts the notion of gesture front and center in the creative process. Also on the program the titanic Calvario for classical guitar and electronics. Calvario was inspired by Christ’s falls during the stations of the Cross, in which Moultaka sees a cyclical movement towards the divine not unlike the whirling trance of Sufi muslim ascetics. Program Zad Moultaka Calvario (2008) Kahraba (European premiere) Tokens: A Century of Modern Guitar Music Kostas Tosidis In this concert, Kostas Tosidis shares some of his modern favorites. Among them: mementos from the rebelious years of Leo Brouwer; flamenco-inspired vignettes by Gasull; pocket-size master- pieces by giants Milhaud and Poulenc; an early treasure from the oeuvre of Gubaidulina; Latvian institution Vasks’ medidations on lonileness; and Tosidis’ very own transcription of Ligeti’s cello sonata. Program Leo Brouwer Canticum Tarantos Gyorgy Ligeti Sonata for cello (arr.Kostas Tosidis) Francis Poulenc Sarabande Sofia Gubaidulina Serenade Darius Milhaud Segoviana Peteris Vasks Sonata of Loneliness Feliu Gasull 10&1 Estudios 10 | Rethinking the Six-String Icon Saturday | 28 April 2018 | 8pm Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Regentschapsstraat 30 Free admission on condition of reservation by e-mail to [email protected] Bricolage Maarten Stragier Bricolage is the ability to use whatever one finds and recombine it to create something new. Done right it can be delectably subversive; it can expose the cracks and contradictions in our everyday preconceptions. This is certainly the case for the music of composers José Maria Sánchez-Verdú and Mauricio Pauly. Veritable “junkyard virtuosos,” both decided to rummage through