EUROPEAN COMPOSER & SONGWRITER ALLIANCE INVITES YOU TO THE CONCERT OF THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO) F E AT U R I N G T H E RTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BOJAN SUĐJIĆ BELGRADE, 18 SEPTEMBER 2018 — KOLARAC CONCERT HALL — STUDENTSKI TRG 5, 11000 BELGRADE — SERBIA ABOUT ECCO THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (ECCO) Imprint ECCO is an ECSA project dedicated to performing and promoting Biographies and programme notes written by the composers and the ensemble: contemporary art music and to reaching new audiences. It operates as a Ülo Krigul, Jacqueline Fontyn, Nicola Campogrande, Mikko Nisula, Isidora network of active ensembles, orchestras and young professionals, supporting Žebeljan, Milan Mihajlović and Zorica Premate. the creative dialogue between composers and performers and offering young professionals the opportunity to develop their skills with ensembles Editor: Alicja Swierczek experienced in performing contemporary music on an international level. The Designer: Meriem Steiner concert series, 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 art 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 the Sturm 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 February 2018, the prominent ensemble Quatuor Diotima was featured at Flagey. Tonight’s concert will feature the RTS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Bojan Suđić who will perform pieces by the following composers: Ülo Krigul (Estonia), Jacqueline Fontyn (Belgium), Nicola Campogrande (Italy), The European Commission support for the production of this publication Mikko Nisula (Finland), Isidora Žebeljan (Serbia) and Milan Mihajlović (Serbia). does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. ABOUT ECSA PROGRAMME THE EUROPEAN COMPOSER AND 18 FEBRUARY 2018 — BELGRADE SONGWRITER ALLIANCE The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) represents over WELCOMING WORDS 50,000 professional composers and songwriters in 26 European countries. BY With 54 member organisations across Europe, the Alliance speaks for the DUŠAN BAVDEK interests of music creators of art and classical music (contemporary), film and (Chair of the ECCO Artistic Committee) audiovisual music, as well as popular music. The main objective of the Alliance is to defend and promote the rights of EIN (KLEINER) WINTERNACHTSTRAUM authors of music at the national, European and international levels by any JACQUELINE FONTYN legal means. It advocates for equitable commercial conditions for composers and songwriters and strives to improve social and economic development of SYMPHONIC SLICES music creation in Europe. ÜLO KRIGUL ECSA was initiated in 2006 in Vienna within the framework of the Mozartjahr. THE HORSES OF SAINT MARK It was established as an alliance in March 2007 in Madrid with the purpose ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN of becoming the central organisation representing the interests of all music creators in Europe, giving every composer and songwriter a European voice. INTERMISSION TRE PICCOLISSIME MUSICHE NOTTURNE NICOLA CAMPOGRANDE MEMENTO MILAN MIHAJLOVIĆ VELLAMON NEIDOT MIKKO NISULA JACQUELINE FONTYN BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: EIN (KLEINER) WINTERNACHTSTRAUM Jacqueline Fontyn was born in Antwerp, where, at the age of five, her parents Mrs. Fontyn writes: “Thanks to a commission by German conductor and entrusted her to the wonderful Russian piano teacher Ignace Bolotine. She violinist Wolfgang Hentrich, I could dedicate myself to this short composition had lessons daily, and Bolotine encouraged her to develop her taste for that was going to be performed by the Dresdner Philharmonic on New Year’s improvisation. At the age of fifteen, she decided to become a composer. She Eve 2003. received her grounding in the techniques of composition from Marcel Quinet in Brussels. She continued her musical education in Paris with Max Deutsch, a Its title alludes to beloved Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. fervent disciple of Schönberg. It was for me an opportunity to add a humourous note that will certainly make the audience smile, hoping they will appreciate listening to this humble opus.” In 1956 she attended Hans Swarowsky’s conducting class at the Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. From 1963 to 1970 she was Professor of Music Theory at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. From 1970 to 1990 she taught Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She is a regular guest of universities and conservatoires in Europe (Germany, France, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland), the United States, Israel, Egypt, Asia (China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan) and New Zealand. She has received many awards, most notably the Spanish Oscar Espla Prize and the Prix Arthur Honegger from the “Fondation de France”. She was asked to write the set piece, a Violin Concerto, for the finals of the 1976 Reine Elisabeth International Music Competition, and has twice undertaken commissions from the Koussevitsky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Washington. Since 2006 all her manuscripts are hosted in the music division of the library of Congress in Washington. Jacqueline Fontyn is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy and in 1993 the King of Belgium granted her the title of baroness in recognition of her artistic merit. © private ÜLO KRIGUL BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME NOTE: SYMPHONIC SLICES Ülo Krigul was born 7 November 1978 in Tallinn. His style includes influences As an initial drive for creating the musical material of that piece, there are from jazz, post-minimalism and sonoristics among them. The imagery of Krigul’s certain types of rhythmic patterns, written by using the classical drum set music is rich in playful contrasts. At the present time his major compositional only, later harmonising and orchestrating the outcome. These patterns are interest is “to treat chords and the relationship between them as geometric based on a style that is called the “Breakbeat” in the drummers´ world. figures or graphic projections”. He graduated from Tallinn Music High School (Alo Põldmäe’s composition class and the extracurricular tuba class), and from The smallest musical unit in percussive context is the beat. This term is something the Estonian Academy of Music under the guidance of Raimo Kangro and that runs through the entire orchestration and energy of Symphonic Slices. The René Eespere. He then furthered his studies at the Universität für Musik und same idea is reflected in the title, referring to certain kind of disruptions and darstellende Kunst Wien with Detlev Müller-Siemens. In 2006, he obtained a fragmentary – the “beatness” - of the material exposed. Master Degree in composition with Tõnu Kõrvits at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. There are places in the score where the whole orchestra is set in layers according to different parts of the drum-set. Anyway, all passages and patterns are in From 1993, Krigul has been a keyboard player and arranger in many rock and relation to the shortness, precision and concentration of a sole Beat. jazz ensembles. At the present time he plays keyboards in the ensembles Compromise Blue and Contus Firmus. The piece is divided into 4 movements, shifting rapidly from one to another. The “so called” dynamic statics are important in phrasing details: dramaturgic His works have been performed at several music festivals in Estonia (Estonian development happens on repetitive cumulation and/or sudden absence of Music Days, international new music festival NYYD, international pianists’ festival expected events. Klaver, etc.) as well as in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine etc. Ülo Krigul is also active as music organizer and as film-music composer. He belonged to the staff of the international jazz festival Jazzkaar and he was the artistic director of the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music founded by him and Timo Steiner. Since 2005, he is one of the artistic directors of the Estonian Music Days Festival. Among his most important awards, Krigul can list the first prize at the International Composers’ Rostrum in Paris in the category of composers under 30 years in 2007 and the Europäische Komponistenpreis 2005 at the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin for his orchestral work JenZeits. His work Swan Bone City for soprano and orchestra was awarded the Composer Prize of the Estonian Music Days Festival 2012 and Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Prize in 2014. In 2006, he was awarded the Heino Eller Music Prize and the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for artistic direction of the Estonian Music Days Festival and Estonian music propaganda. In 2007, Krigul was awarded the Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in the artistic team of feature film Autumn Ball.