VI SAINT PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: MEHDI HOSSEINI
21 — 25 MAY, 2019 facebook.com/remusik.org vk.com/remusikorg youtube.com/user/remusikorg twitter.com/remusikorg instagram.com/remusik_org SPONSORS & PARTNERS GENERAL PARTNERS INTERSECTIO
A POIN OF2019 The Organizing Committee would like to express its thanks and appreciation for the support and assistance provided by the following people:
Eltje Aderhold, Karina Abramyan, Anna Arutyunova, Vladimir Begletsov, Alexander Beglov, Sylvie Bermann, Natalia Braginskaya, Denis Bystrov, Olga Chukova, Evgeniya Diamantidi, Valery Fokin, Valery Gergiev, Regina Glazunova, Andri Hardmeier, Alain Helou, Svetlana Ibatullina, Maria Karmanovskaya, Natalia Kopich, Roger Kull, Serguei Loukine, Anastasia Makarenko, Alice Meves, Jan Mierzwa, Tatiana Orlova, Ekaterina Puzankova, Yves Rossier, Tobias Roth Fhal, Olga Shevchuk, Yulia Starovoitova, Konstantin Sukhenko, Anton Tanonov, Hans Timbremont, Lyudmila Titova, Alexei Vasiliev, Alexander Voronko, Eva Zulkovska. 1 Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall 4 Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina FESTIVAL CALENDAR Dekabristov St., 37 Vyazemsky Ln., 8 mariinsky.ru vk.com/sculptorstudio
2 New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre 5 “Lumiere Hall” creative space TUESDAY / 21.05 19:00 Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall Fontanka River Embankment 49, Lit A Obvodnogo Kanala emb., 74А ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland) alexandrinsky.ru lumierehall.ru
3 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov 6 The Concert Hall “Jaani Kirik” Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Dekabristov St., 54A Glinka St., 2, Lit A jaanikirik.ru WEDNESDAY / 22.05 13:30 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory.ru Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Composer meet-and-greet: Katharina Rosenberger (Switzerland)
16:00 Lumiere Hall Marcus Weiss, Saxophone (Switzerland) Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia)
20:00 New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre Around the Corner (Spain, Switzerland)
4 Vyazemsky Ln.
THURSDAY / 23.05 12:30 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Composer meet-and-greet: Vladimir Tarnopolsky (Russia)
Petrogradskaya 16:00 Lumiere Hall A&C Quartet (Russia)
Kamennoostrovky ave. 19:30 New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia) Chkalovskaya
FRIDAY / 24.05 13:00 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Composer meet-and-greet: Alexander Knaifel (Russia)
15:00 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Composer meet-and-greet: Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland)
19:00 Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina The Museum of Urban Sculpture Studio for New Music (Russia) Nevskiy Nevsky ave. prospekt
SATURDAY / 25.05 11:00 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Nevsky ave. 2 Saint Petersburg State Conservatory The 3rd International Scientific Conference 3 Dostoevskaya “Music in the Age of New Media” Glinki str. Sennaya ploschad 1 Teatralnaya Sq. 11:00 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov 6 Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Composer meet-and-greet: Dekabristov str. Raphaël Cendo (France)
Rimskogo-Korsakova ave. Fontanka River embankment Ligovsky ave. 19:00 The Concert Hall “Jaani Kirik” Makrokosmos Quartet (Switzerland)
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Obvodniy Kanal embankment Moreover, the composers, being a part ithout a doubt, the music of the civil society, also have an impact of today — a subgrouping on these global trends, consciously or of the greater category of unconsciously capturing them in the art — enjoys a mutual and works they create. creative confluence with Wculture per se, revealing its presence in Consequently, the type of content, the spatial, temporal, psychological and other forms and expressions of such musical cultural capacities. Social participation compositions are the result of combining is an essential component of human parameters that are very different from growth, accountability, civic cooperation an aesthetic point of view, and the and order. Therefore, presenting a audience (in the case of aural and/or New Music Festival in St. Petersburg visual perception) may first find it obscure allows the existence of a cultivated and and have many questions. However, one refined program which promotes lesser of the key ideas and aims of the festival known musical works and not only is to create a platform to facilitate open creates an open platform for the current dialog between composers, musicians generation’s musicians, but ultimately and the audience who are interested in becomes part of a social phenomenon new trends in the art of sound. that provides the essential elements necessary for cultural dialogue and the advancement of artistic creativity. Born s in the previous years, it would out of a social phenomenon, reMusik. be impossible to plan and deliver org not only avails the new generation the Sixth reMusik.org Festival of musicians with an open platform - it without the energetic assistance sets up and promotes the very elements of many people, which is why foundational to the advancement of new IA would like to extend my warmest thanks ideas and cultural initiatives. to the team of the festival and all my colleagues at the concert venues. To make new music evaluated and understood, it is necessary to bring I am especially grateful to Valery Gergiev, together various cultural aspects the Artistic Director of the Mariinsky that take the audience into the zone Theatre, for his invaluable support of of hearing, where they concentrate the festival, Aleksey Vasilyev, the Rector on their own thoughts and internal of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, research. In this sense, the program of and Valery Fokin, the Artistic Director the sixth festival continues the journey of the Alexandrinsky Theater, for their started in the previous years in order assistance and support of festival events. to attract renowned performers of new music. We have made every effort to I must also express special gratitude present premieres of works by different to the government of Saint Petersburg, generations of composers, who are in in particular, to Konstantin Sukhenko, constant search for unique ideas, and to Chairman of the Saint Petersburg show the features of their musical dialects Committee for Culture, for their as fully as possible. assistance to and support of reMusik. org. Without additional support, which The ongoing process of the development in some cases was decisive, from of music in the twenty-first century, institutions like the Swiss Arts Council in particular of those areas that are Pro Helvetia, the French Institute, and the presented at reMusik.org, reflects Polish Institute, we would not be able to many recent musical languages created implement the wide range of concert and by the new generation of composers educational activities that we can offer and is, from the point of view of its this year. geographical coverage, a reflection of the general situation in connection with the I wish all the participants, guests and current state of human society, which concertgoers an exciting and fruitful time is constantly evolving, experiencing the at the reMusik.org Festival. impact of important political, economic, social and cultural changes that take place around the world. — Mehdi Hosseini Composer and Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival Tuesday, 21 May 2019 Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall 19:00
ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland) Conductor: Sebastian Gottschick (Germany) ounded in 1985 as a sextet, with Lucas Niggli, Nik Baertsch, Chris the ensemble für neue musik Wiesendanger, Daniel Riegler, Matthias zürich is dedicated exclusively Spillmann, Philipp Schaufelberger, and The program: to contemporary music. The many others. Numerous radio recordings musicians plan and design their were made at SRF2Kultur, Radio Kiev, Cécile MARTI (*1973) Fprograms on their own and invite guest Radio Odessa, Hong Kong RTHK, BR, Dancing Spectra (Russian Premiere, 2019) conductors. If necessary, the basic WDR, etc., and many CD productions were for violin, flute, clarinet, cello, percussion and piano ensemble formation is expanded to made at Hat Hut Records Ltd. and music include singers or instrumentalists. Every scene Switzerland / Grammont. project, every artistic decision and all Svetlana LAVROVA (*1979) financial marketing risks are shared by the he ensemble made an international Jitter (Russian Premiere, 2019) musicians. name for itself with its "theater for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano department" dieSZENEzürich Among the special concerns of the through projects by Peter Maxwell Katharina ROSENBERGER (*1971) ensemble für neue musik zürich is the Davies (“Mad Queen, Mad King”), Blur (Premiere, 2019) promotion of not yet established, young TDaniel Mouthon (“Finnabout”, “L'empire composers from Switzerland and other des choses”, “Ghostdriver”, “Air à l'en for bass flute, bass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello and piano countries as well as cooperation with verre” and “Liquid Crystal Display”), sound artists at the edges of the scene. Daniel Füter (“Rise of the Swing Broom” Martin JAGGI (*1978) In addition to more than 300 world and "Trout Stanley”) and “Keyner nit” by Enga (Russian Premiere, 2018) premieres by composers from over 30 Mathias Steinauer. Through successful for bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano different countries, most of which were cooperation with Joachim Schlömer, dedicated to or commissioned by the Herbert Wernicke, Albrecht Hirche, Hanspeter FREHNER (*1953) ensemble, the program also includes Sven Holm, Stefan Nolte, Anna Viebrock composer portraits by George Crumb, and many others, it has contributed to Clutter (Russian Premiere, 2018) Liza Lim, Noriko Hisada, Hanspeter Kyburz modern, contemporary musical theater. for flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion and Franz Furrer-Münch, Dieter Ammann, Johannes Harneit, Jochen Neurath, Elliott The ensemble für neue musik zürich Alexander RADVILOVICH (*1955) Carter, Ysang Yun, Hans Joachim Hespos, successfully performs in Europe, Central Brouillage (Russian Premiere, 2019) Bruno Stöckli, Lukas Langlotz, etc., and Asia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and for clarinet solo and ensemble thematic concepts like “Memento mori” Australia. and “ZUHOEAN” by Christoph Coburger and Sebastian Gottschick. ensemble.ch Performers: In the art context, they organize “Kunsthalle-Specials” in the Kunsthalle Hanspeter Frehner, flute Zürich, “Josephsohn” in the La Congiunta Nicola Katz, clarinet in Giornico and work together with Peter Philipp Meier, piano Regli. In the jazz field, they collaborate Lorenz Haas, percussion Annina Wöhrle, violin Nicola Romanò, cello Wednesday, 22 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 13:30
atharina Rosenberger, born in Zurich, is a Professor at the Department of Music, University of California, San Diego. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in KComposition from Columbia University, under the mentorship of Tristan Murail.
Her compositions, installations and interdisciplinary stage work have been featured at festivals such as the COMPOSER Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Witten, Heroines of Sound, Berlin, Rosenberger is a recipient of the MEET-AND-GREET KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. In the Hannover, Weimarer Frühlingstage, past, she has been awarded with the DE, Musikfestival Bern, Tage für Neue Hellman Fellowship, San Francisco, the KATHARINA Musik, Zürich, Festival Archipel, Geneva, Sony Scholar Award, and the Ernst von CH, Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, Siemens Musikstiftung Commission for FR, Festival Bernaola, Vitoria-Gasteiz, her composition Gesang an das noch ROSENBERGER namenlose Land. ES, Felicja Blumental Festival, Tel Aviv, (SWITZERLAND) IL, Festival reMusik, St. Petersburg, RU, Festival Visiones Sonoras, Morelia, er installation work VIVA MX, Shanghai Electronic Music Week, VOCE and Room V won the Shanghai New Music Days, CN, October “Mediaprojects Award” / Contemporary, Hongkong, HK, as well as Sitemapping of the Swiss in many concert series throughout Europe Federal Agency (OFC), Berne. and the United States. HHer portrait CD TEXTUREN with the Wet Ink Ensemble, released on HatHut Records, has been awarded the prestigious Copland Recording Grant and was selected for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Bestenliste 4_2012.
Her music can be heard on Hat Hut Records, Unit Records and Akenaton.
krosenberger.ch Wednesday, 22 May 2019 Lumiere Hall 16:00
Marcus Weiss, saxophone (Switzerland) and Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia)
Conductor: Arash Yazdani (Iran)
arcus Weiss (*1961) — аn internationally The program: acclaimed player, he has played a crucial role in developing the repertoire for the Hans THOMALLA (*1975) saxophone, through his numerous premieres Fracking (Russian Premiere, 2013) of a wide range of new works, as well as Mhis teaching and through his book “The Techniques of for alto saxophone and string trio Saxophone Playing” (Bärenreiter 2010). Aside from his work with Trio Accanto, his premieres have included Anton TANONOV (*1977) works by Aperghis, Baltakas, Cage, Clementi, Furrer, BAD (Premiere, 2019) Gervasoni, Globokar, Hidalgo, Hosokawa, Jarrell, for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello Kyburz, Kôndô, Lachenmann, Lang, Netti, Pauset, Rihm, Sciarrino, Sharp, Sotelo, Stockhausen, and Zimmermann. NADIR VASSENA (*1970) Internationally known as a saxophone soloist, he has premiered concerti by Georg Friedrich Haas, Hanspeter mute materie (Russian Premiere, 2010) Kyburz, Mauricio Sotelo and Manuel Hidalgo, as well as for saxophone solo by Johannes Maria Staud (with percussion). He is highly active as a chamber musician, above all in his two groups, Xavier DAYER (*1972) XASAX and Trio Accanto. He has also extensively played Mais je me suis enfuis (Russian Premiere, 2006) as an ensemble player and soloist with ensembles such for flute, clarinet, viola and cello as Klangforum Wien, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Modern and Contrechamps. Elis HALLIK (*1986) Marcus Weiss is teaching saxophone and chamber music Touching the first sounds (Russian Premiere, 2019) at the University of Music Basel (Hochschule), where for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and saxophone he also directs a Masters Program for contemporary music. He is regularly giving masterclasses at various international universities including Royal Academy of Performers: Music London, Universidad de Alcala Madrid, Universität der Künste in Berlin, Universität für Musik in Wien, a number of universities in the USA, including in Boston, Marion Strandberg, flute New York, Chicago, and at the Takefu International Helena Tuuling, clarinet Composition Workshop in Japan. He is a regular teacher Nina Kawaguchi, violin at the Darmstädter Ferienkursen für neue Musik as well Talvi Nurgamaa, viola as at IMPULS (ensemble academy) in Graz (Austria). Teemu Mastovaara, cello Wednesday, 22 May 2019 New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre 20:00
Duo Around the Corner (Spain, Switzerland)
The program:
Kelley SHEEHAN (*1983) White Noise #5 A Series of Colors (Russian Premiere, 2017-18) round the Сorner is a duo integrated by Eva-Maria Karbacher Around the Сorner (saxophone) and Victor Barceló Intro (Russian Premiere, 2019) (percussion). Their music fluctuate between the free improvisation Aand the multimedia world with big Simon STEEN ANDERSEN (*1976) influences of the techno music, electronic Next To Besides Besides # 2and4 (Russian Premiere, 2003- and jazz. 2006) Victor Barceló is a spanish percussionist France, Austria, Hungary and Spain. based in Basel, where he studied with These activities have led him to work with Around the Сorner Christian Dierstein, Alfred Zimmerlin composers such as Marko Ciciliani, Simon What is like to be stuck in an elevator (Russian Premiere, 2019) and Fred Frith at the Hochschule for Steen Andersen, Michael Maierhof, Jürg Musik. As performer, Victor’s musical Frey, Georges Aperghis, Philippe Manoury interests focus on contemporary music, and many young composers. He's also Matthias KRANEBITTER (*1980) techno, new media and improvisation. member of the ensemble This | ensemble Concerto for saxophone and midi orchestra Several appearances in contemporary That, neuverBand, and was a member of music festivals, including Lucerne reConvert Project. (Russian Premiere, 2009) Festival, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurs, Huddersfield va-Maria Karbacher studied Around the Сorner Contemporary Music Festival, Percussione saxophone and music pedagogy Temporanea, Tzill Meudcan, Heidelberger at the Hochschule Luzern in Styropor party (Russian Premiere, 2019) Frühling, IMPULS Festival and concerts in the saxophone class of Sascha Diddle-para-Steve (Russian Premiere, 2019) Argentina, Chile, USA, Japan, Cuba, Poland, Armbruster and Beat Hofstetter Italy, Germany, Estonia, Israel, Greece, Eas well as in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in the class of Johannes Ernst. Since September 2017 Performers: she deepens her abilities as an improviser at the Musikakademie Basel with a Eva-Maria Karbacher, saxophone Master of Arts in Specialised Musical Performance in the improvisation class Victor Barceló, percussion of Alfred Zimmerlin and Fred Frith. In addition to the interpretation of contemporary saxophone literature, free improvisation is at the core of Eva-Maria Karbacher's musical work. She performs regularly as solo improviser as well as in various formations and ensembles. Eva- Maria Karbacher is part of the KlangBang Collective which organises a monthly concert series for free improvised music in Basel. Thursday, 23 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 12:30
ladimir Tarnopolski (*1955) born of Contemporary Music in Moscow in Dnepropetrovsk. He studied (1989), which represented a group of composition at the Moscow composers, who reacted against the Tchaikovsky Conservatory official Soviet cultural philosophy of with Edison Denisov “socialist realism". In 1993 he founded the andV Nikolai Sidelnikov. Centre for Contemporary Music at the Moscow Conservatory, the first of its kind Tarnopolski is a frequent guest in many in Russia, and the Studio for New Music Western contemporary music festivals, Ensemble. such as: Almeida Festival London, Beethovenfest Bonn, The Berliner In 1994 Tarnopolski founded the Moscow COMPOSER Festwochen, Dresdner Tage fur Neue Forum, an annual International Festival MEET-AND-GREET Musik, Frankfurter Musikfest, Holland of Contemporary Music, the main focus Festival, Hommage aux Russes Paris, of which is the integration of Huddersfield Contemporary Music contemporary Russian music with Festival, Klangspuren festival in Austria, Western European contemporary music. VLADIMIR La Biennale di Venezia, Make Music His long-term projects “The Anthology Together in Boston, Manca festival in of the Avant-garde”, “Red Wheel. The Nice, The Mannes festival in New York, Unknown Russian Music of the XX TARNOPOLSKI Münchener Biennale, The Schleswig- century”, “Russia-Germany. Chapters (RUSSIA) Holstein Musikfest, Sonic Boom New of the XX Century Music History”, York Festival, Tage fur Neue Musik Zurich, “Freedom of Sound!”, “Europe through the Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, The World eyes of Russians. Russia through the eyes Music Days of the ISCM and many others. of Europeans” and others have obtained recognition in Russia and abroad. Composer has written pieces on commission for some of the world's ince 1992 Tarnopolski has been leading orchestras, among them the a professor of composition Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Rundfunks, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Conservatory. Many his students InterContemporain, Musikfabrik, have won prizes at international Schönberg Ensemble, Ensemble Scompetitions for young composers. of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, Tarnopolski founded a new Contemporary Klangforum Wien and others. His Music Department in 2003. He has held stage works were premiered at the numerous composition seminars in Münchener Biennale, Beethovenfest Russia, Austria, France, Germany, Great Bonn, Barbican Hall London, Rencontres Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Musicales, Contemporary Dance Festival Sweden, Switzerland, USA and other Netherlands, Bergen Festival and others. countries, including such universities as Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and others. Tarnopolski's compositions contain a Vladimir Tarnopolski has been the first fulminantly charged musical substance and so far the only Russian composer who fitting into a concisely articulated, well- was invited as a docent to the Darmstadt balanced construction. Tarnopolski was International Courses for New Music one of the initiators of the Association (2010).
tarnopolski.ru Thursday, 23 May 2019 Lumiere Hall 16:00
A&C Quartet (Russia)
he A&C String Quartet – where A&C stands The program: for “Ancient and Contemporary” – was founded at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory Oscar BIANCHI (*1975) in 2016, when some of the most talented string virtuosi in Russia decided to unite under the flag Pathos of Distance (Russian Premiere, 2017) Tof sheer authenticity and produce more truthful String Quartet № 2 renditions of contemporary and 18th-century music . Alexander KHUBEEV (*1986) The current line-up of the quartet includes Gleb Khokhlov (violin), Polina Babinkova (violin), Irina Sopova (viola) Tactile Illusions (Premiere, 2019) and Yulia Migunova (cello), who have won numerous for string quartet music competitions, including the All-Russian Musical Competition and the Yuri Bashmet International Viola Competition as well as the International Musical Youshin GIM (*1997) Competition in Belgrad. Since 2017, the quartet has
Performers:
Gleb Khokhlov, violin Polina Babonkova, violin Irina Sopova, viola Julia Migunova, cello Thursday, 23 May 2019 New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre 19:30
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia) Conductor: Arash Yazdani (Iran)
The program NMT is a platform to bring about fresh and newly perceived music to new generation of public and Alexander Schubert (*1979) professionals. The ensemble Star Me Kitten (Russian Premiere, 2015) is made of a core of principal for free ensemble and electronics Emembers, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists. Simon STEEN ANDERSEN (*1976) Study for String Instrument #1 (Russian Premiere, 2007) Since the establishing in 2012, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn has proven to be Lucier, Alexander Schubert among others version for string trio faithful to its promise of bringing about and world premier performances by fresh and unexperienced music to the composers including: Klaus Lang, Helena Mark APPLEBAUM (*1967) new and eager audience. The main focus Tulve, Toivo Tulev, Dror Feiler, Marc Sabat, Pre-Composition (Russian Premiere, 2003) of ensemble is on promoting new music Brice Catherin and many others. for 8 channel electronics at its best and suggesting an alternative path for musicians, composers and public ENMT has had performances and Liisa HIRSCH (*1984) through introducing a substitute for collaborations with among others Acker domination of mainstream music industry Stadt Palast, Universität der Künste 4 glides (Russian Premiere, 2014) and/or institutions and orchestras in Berlin, MIXTUR Festival Barcelona, version for video and electronics general. Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, St. Petersburg Contemporary Music Yair KLARTAG (*1985) Alongside commissioning new pieces Festival, Fylkingen Stockholm, Autumn Pros mathematikous (Russian Premiere, 2015) to Estonian and international promising Fest, Varskeheli / Fresh Sound festival, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello composers, ENMT has been responsible Animated Dreams Festival, PÖFF Black for Estonian premiers of several Nights Film Festival, Inner Sound New milestone works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Arts Festival Bucharest, Tallinn Music Nikolai POPOV James Tenney, Michael Maierhof, Alvin Week, Resonanta Paris, FUGA architecture ANF-93 (Premiere of the new version, 2014/2019) museum Budapest, AFEKT festival, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and electronics Estonian Music Days.
As of 2017 the ensemble is making its own festival of microtonal music, titled Sound Performers: Plasma, in Berlin and Tallinn. The festival includes several performances, lectures, masterclasses and symposium by Marion Strandberg, flute ensemble members and invited guests. Helena Tuuling, clarinet Nina Kawaguchi, violin enmtallinn.com Talvi Nurgamaa, viola Teemu Mastovaara, cello Friday, 24 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 13:00
lexander Aronovich Knaifel (*1943) was born in Tashkent into a family of professional musicians. In 1961, he finished the Secondary Special Music School of the Leningrad Conservatoire where he studied the cello under AEmmanuil Fishman. He continued his cello studies under COMPOSER Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory (1961-1963) and then his composition studies under MEET-AND-GREET Boris Arapov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1963- 1967). ALEXANDER Knaifel became known to the general public as a composer who wrote music for over forty feature films and documentaries. His creative alliance with Soviet film KNAIFEL director Semyon Aranovich holds a distinguished place (RUSSIA) in the composer’s biography. Together they worked on such movies as “Rafferty” and “Protivostoyanie” (“Confrontation”).
Aside from film scores, Knaifel has produced over a hundred musical pieces of various genres. His works are premiered at the largest music festivals in Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York, Zurich, Salzburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Maastricht, Ferrara and other cities. Releases of the composer’s works appear on reputed Russian and international labels like Melodiya, ECM New Series, Teldec Classics International, Chant du Monde and Megadisc Classics.
Alexander Knaifel was the first Russian musician to become awarded the international DAAD prize (German Academic Exchange Service). He has been a member of the Union of Composers of Russia since 1968 and of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia since 1987. Friday, 24 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 15:00
orn in Milan, holding dual His music has been performed by Italian-Swiss citizenships, Oscar outstanding orchestras and soloists Bianchi completed degrees in such as the Symphonieorchester des composition, choir conducting Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gewandhaus and electronic music at the Leipzig, Orchestre Philharmonique de BGiuseppe Verdi conservatory of Radio France, DSO, Ensemble Modern, Milan. He pursued further studies Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta, in composition taking part in master Ictus, Asko-Schoenberg, JACK, Diotima, programs such as at IRCAM — Centre Arditti, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Pompidou and with a doctoral degree at Remix, Nieuw Ensemble, L'Itinéraire, Columbia University in New York under Contrechamps, ICE, Alarm Will Sound, COMPOSER the guidance of Tristan Murail. Sabine Meyer, David Grimal, Pablo MEET-AND-GREET Heras-Casado, Markus Poschner, “Vitality, pulsing rhythms, and virtuosity Jonathan Stockhammer, KNM Berlin, are the hallmarks of the music created Phoenix, Collegium Novum Zürich. OSCAR by Bianchi, who reveals a sensible interest in new phrasings and new pcoming projects include ornamentations, something to be new works for the expected from someone whose ears Symphonieorchester des BIANCHI are finely attuned to the music from all Bayerischen Rundfunks, (SWITZERLAND) corners of the globe. A vocal quality, Orchestre Philharmonique de even in his instrumental work, can URadio France, Orchestra della Svizzera strike us as a prominent feature of his Italiana, Diotima, Accroche Note and music. Exuberant and intelligent, this Ensemble Modern. Oscar Bianchi was vocal dimension plays with a refined art a guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm of accentuations in all its intermediate Berlin, Pro-Helvetia in Warsaw and degrees. We know him now increasingly Johannesburg and the Atlantic Center interested in cantata, opera and staged for the Arts in Florida. He has been works: at its core, Bianchi's music awarded numerous prizes, such as continues to be guided by the challenge the Gaudeamus first Prize and the of dramaturgical and formal issues. Grand Prix de la SACEM. “Partendo” The unexpected contrasts between has been awarded with the 2016 IMC voluble virtuosity and contemplative International Rostrum of composer's stasis are the driving force of his flair prize while his first CD Portrait won for dramatic gesture. His music is the German Record Critics' Award joyfully violent in breath and in song but in 2013. As the artistic director of may suddenly come to rest in prayer, via the International Young Composers a specific harmony, as though struck by Academy Ticino Musica, and board the noonday light” (Jean-Luc Plouvier, member of reMusik.org Festival Ictus Ensemble). St. Petersburg Oscar Bianchi has been a champion for a young generation Commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence of talented composers from all around Festival and Théâtre & Musique, his first the world who he fosters tirelessly. opera, Thanks to My Eyes, libretto and direction by Joël Pommerat, received oscarbianchi.com critical acclaim by audiences and critics alike (A masterly portrait of Melancholy, Le Monde, July 7, 2011). Friday, 24 May 2019 Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina The Museum of Urban Sculpture 19:00
Studio for New Music (Russia) Conductor: Igor Dronov (Russia)
The program:
Alexandra PHILONENKO (*1972) bellxtreme (Russian Premiere, 2013) he Studio for New Music (SNM) is During last years Studio for New for voice and accordion the leading contemporary music Music focuses on the projects with group in Russia. The ensemble live electronics, video and multimedia Oscar BIANCHI (*1975) was founded by composer commissioning new works from Senza (2018) Vladimir Tarnopolski and Russian and European composers. for recorder and violin Tconductor Igor Dronov in 1993. Their Ensemble have produced in Moscow first concert was given in France with several contemporary stage works, Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor. such as Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Simone CARDINI (*1986) Sciarrino, Le petit chaperon rouge by Deriva, in margine a una lontananza, dimentica Every year the ensemble performs George Aperghis, Jenseits der Schatten (Russian Premiere, 2018) about 50 programs in Moscow and by Vladimir Tarnopolski and several for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano throughout the country. Studio is others. Among vast repertoire of the a frequent guest at many Western group, special attention is also given to Jug MARKOVIC (*1987) contemporary music festivals. SNM has the Early Russian Avant-garde (Nicolai m-Tongue (Russian Premiere, 2016/2019) performed at such major venues as Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov, Ivan Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien, Vyshnegradsky, Gavriil Popov and many for flute, clarinet, violin,viola, cello and piano Konzerthaus Berlin, Cité de la Musique others). One of the most important Paris, Jacqueline du Pre Concert events of this kind was the world Kaito NAKAHORI (*1989) Hall Oxford, Paradiso Amsterdam, premiere of the Chamber Symphony Zero (Russian Premiere, 2015) Deutschlandfunk Köln, Schönberg No. 2 by Nikolai Roslavets (composed in for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Center Vienna, Festspielhaus Hellerau 1934), which was recently found in an Dresden and many others. Ensemble archive. Annette SCHMUCKI (*1968) has conducted a variety of workshops Repeat one (2017) at the universities of Oxford, Harvard NM is the ensemble-in-residence for flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, sampler and 6 tapes and Boston to name a few and has been at the Moscow Tchaikovsky the first and so far the only Russian Conservatory. It is the core group which was invited as ensemble- ensemble for the Moscow Forum Raphaël CENDO (*1975) in-residence at the Darmstadt Festival for contemporary Furia (Russian Premiere, 2009-2010) International Courses for New Music Smusic. In 2002, 2005 and 2012 Studio for cello and piano in 2010. for New Music won the grants of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung for Vladimir TARNOPOLSKI (*1955): SNM has premiered about 900 several projects, including two-years Study of a Girl Reading Pavese (Russian Premiere, 2015) compositions of russian and foreign anthological series of concerts with for soprano and ensemble composers. In collaboration with the Russian and German music of 20th in Ensemble Modern the group also Moscow and Russian regions. Studio for performed the russian premiere of New Music won the grant of European Requiem by Hans Werner Henze and Commission for the realization of the most recently of “…zwei Gefühle” by large-scale project “Europe through Performers: Helmut Lachenmann. In cooperation the eyes of Russians. Russia through with many others with other the eyes of Europeans” with 18 new Ekaterina Kichigina, soprano ensembles Studio has first performed compositions by Russian and European Marina Rubinsteyn, flute in Russia works by Andriessen, composers commissioned. Eugen Barkhatov, clarinet Boulez, Ferneyhough, Grisey, Hurel, Vladimir Terekhov, percussion Lachenmann, Ligeti, Murail, Rihm, Nono, In the concert season 2018-2019 Studio Natalia Cherkasova, piano Stockhausen, among others. for New Music Ensemble celebrates the 25th anniversary. Sergey Tchirkov, accordion SNM has presented about 60 concert- Stanislav Malyshev, violin portraits of the leading contemporary www.studionewmusic.ru Ekaterina Markova, viola composers. Many of them such as Ivan Olga Galochkina, cello Fedele, Nicolaus A. Huber, Enno Poppe, Gérard Zinsstag, Roger Redgate have written new works especially for the group. Particular attention has always been payed to all kinds of collaboration with young composers in competitions, workshops, and various other forms. Saturday, 25 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 11:00
he distinguishing feature of new media art is digital representation of objects. Irrelevant of whether objects were computer created in the Tfirst place or digitized from analog sources, they are represented by numeric codes and are therefore digital representations.
Consequently, objects can be described mathematically and subjected to algorithmic manipulations as media become programmable. These and other multiform art transformations of the digital age will be a matter of THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL discussion at the conference. SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE MUSIC IN THE AGE OF MEDIA Saturday, 25 May 2019 The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory 11:00
aphaël Cendo (*1975) was born in Nice, after studying piano and composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, Cendo followed the composition Rcurriculum of the Conservatoire de Paris (2000-2003), from which he graduated in composition, analysis and orchestration. He then entered COMPOSER the composition and computer music rom 2009 to 2011, he was a class of the IRCAM. (2003-2006). resident at the Villa Médicis of MEET-AND-GREET During his training, he will have the French Academy in Rome. In received the lessons of Allain Gaussin, 2007, Cendo received the Prix Marco Stroppa, Brian Ferneyhough, Espoir, awarded by the Francis RAPHAËL Fausto Romitelli and Philippe Manoury. Fand Mica Salabert Foundation, from the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal's He has taught at the Conservatoire International Composition Competition. CENDO In 2009, he received the Pierre Cardin de Nanterre, the Escola Superior de (FRANCE) Música de Catalunya of Barcelona Prize from the Académie des Beaux- (Catalonia College of Music), at the Arts and in 2011 and 2015 the Hervé Darmstadt Summer School (2012- Dugardin and Georges Enesco Prize 2014), at the “New Voices” composition from SACEM. Cendo currently lives and sessions in Royaumont Abbey (2012- works in Berlin. 2016) and is regularly invited to give master classes and conferences in Raphaël Cendo's music tends towards the United States, Russia and Europe. excess and saturation. He sculpts from He is the director of the University crude masses and extracts complex of Altitude, a summer academy of sounds. Energy from the performers composition that takes place every year themselves puts this sound matter into in Saint-Martin-Vésubie. a state of tension through a blending of timbres and a contrast of forms.
His works are performed by internationally renowned musicians and ensembles such as the Klangforum Wien, the Tana Quartet, Linea, Dal Niente, Alternance, Cairn, Ictus, Intercontemporain, Itinéraire, musikFabrik, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Either/Or, Yarn/Wire, the Diotima Quartet, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, etc. Saturday, 25 May 2019 Concert Hall “Jaani Kirik” 19:00
Makrokosmos Quartet (Switzerland)
The program:
akrokosmos Quartet are comprising pianists Ufuk and Bahar Dördüncü Wolfgang RIHM (*1952) and percussionists Sergi Sempere i Ramos and Sébastien Cordier — owes Schrift-Um-Schrift (Russian Premiere, 1993/2007) its name to the series of pieces for piano composed by George Crumb: the musicians played part of his cycle, “Music for a Summer Evening”, in their first joint performance. Oleg PAIBERDIN (*1971) M Blur (Premiere, 2019) Prior to the establishment of the quartet, the four musicians gave numerous concerts in collaboration with other artists; most notably, the Duo Dördüncü were invited to Xavier DAYER (*1972) perform with the contemporary music Ensemble Contrechamps. One of the Quartet’s Sous la Voûte Etoilée (Russian Premiere, 2010) career-defining performances so far has been one of Bela Bartok’s pivotal Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937). Victor BAYEZ (*1985) The Makrokosmos Quartet combines percussive pianos with melodic percussion. They N-Bit Partition (Russian Premiere, 2018) have been working in close collaboration with such composers as Heinz Holliger, Brian Ferneyhough and Stefano Gervasoni, and hope to enrich their repertoire with some Martin MATALON (*1958) new pieces by Philippe Hurel, Beat Furrer and Enno Poppe. Spin (Russian Premiere, 2018)
The Quartet has performed at the Label Suisse Festival in Switzerland, the Aujourd’hui Musique Festival in France with a world premierе by M. Matalon and the Concerti della Performers: Normale Festival in Italy.
makrokosmos4tet.com Ufuk Dördüncü, piano Bahar Dördüncü, piano Sergi Sempere i Ramos, percussion Sébastien Cordier, percussion THE COMPOSITION COURSE UNION OF COMPOSERS OF RUSSIA
he Composition Course is a new educational he Union of Soviet Composers program of reMusik.org. This creative came into being in 1932 when composing lab will bring together three world- it brought together composers renowned composers and music professors and musicologists from all — Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland), Raphaël Cendo over the USSR. Among its T(France) and Vladimir Tarnopolski (Russia), along Tfirst members there were some of with resident ensembles and emerging composers the most established musicians of from over twenty countries. Students will have a that time: Reinhold Glière, Aram ten-day opportunity to attend lectures and individual Khachaturian, Alexander Goldenweiser, classes led by composers with significant teaching Nikolai Myaskovsky, Mikhail Ippolitov- experience as well as collaborate with performers Ivanov, Vissarion Shebalin, Bolesław of their works in the workshop format. Przybyszewski, Alexander Goedicke and others. Through membership in Alongside this, contest participants will make the Union, composers would receive presentations to all interested in different trends commissions, have their works in new music art. Young composers from around published and performed, and gain the world will present their work and run Q&A access to professional and public The Union advances communication in sessions. discussions. the field of academic art by organizing concerts, contests, workshops and Upon the completion of the Course, lab students The First All-Union Congress of laboratories, such as the “Avanti” will have their music compositions performed at the Composers was held in 1948 when Composition Competition, concerts of the VI International New Music Festival. the position of Chairman of the Union the Musicological Research Contest The most salient young composers will be offered of Composers was accepted by Boris dedicated to contemporary Russian participation in the 2020 reMusik.org Festival and Asafiev. Tikhon Khrennikov was named composers, the Reading Sessions for the opportunity to have their scores published at the General Secretary (subsequently First emerging composers (in association publishing house Edition reMusik.org. Secretary), a position he kept from with the Moscow Contemporary Music 1948 to 1991. Ensemble), #нелекторий “Peter and the Wolves” at the Sergei Prokofiev At the end of the 1950s, the Union Museum. of Composers of the Russian SFSR was founded. It was headed by such In 2019, the Union of Composers prominent Soviet composers as Dmitri of Russia lends support to the The reMusik.org Festival has for a few years now Shostakovich, Georgy Sviridov, and CoOPERAtion workshop, the Moscow been a music event of singular prominence both on Rodion Shchedrin. Autumn Festival and the International a city- and nationwide scale. This year, reMusik.org Festival of Chamber Music “Five takes particular pleasure in launching an educational Today, the Union of Composers of Evenings” in Moscow. program that aims to pave the way for many young Russia unites professional composers talents from all over the world and introduce new and musicologists from 48 regions of In addition to it, the Union provides names to the public. the country. Alexey Rybnikov has been young composers with education Chairman of the Council of the Union grants and financially supports I am sincerely hoping that this new experience will since 2017. As a public organization, contemporary music festivals, the likes propel festival participants and guests towards the Union continues to create new of “Other Space” under the artistic further discoveries and achievements! projects, support the initiatives of “ direction of Vladimir Jurowski and the cultural institutions, performers and Multimedia Festival “Gallery of Actual Alexander Khubeev composers from Russian cities and Music” in Moscow. Curator of the Composition Course towns. This year, the Union of Composers of Russia has offered its support to the Composition Course, an education program launched by reMusik.org, and awarded scholarships to three young composers: Oleg Gudachev (St. Petersburg), Oleg Krokhalev (Perm/ Moscow), and Dmitry Remezov (Ekaterinburg/Moscow, member of the Union of Composers of Russia). INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG MUSICIANS “MOLOT INTERNATIONAL GROUP” OF THE RUSSIAN MUSICAL UNION
olOt International Group, originally named the Youth Department of the Union of Composers of Russia (MolOt), was founded in 2009 by composer Yaroslav Sudzilovsky and musicologist Yaroslav Timofeev. The organization has welcomed many new members over the last M decade. Since 2017, MolOt has been actively involved in the international activities of the International Association of Young Composers and Musicologists affiliated with the Russian Musical Union.
MolOt does not only perform extensively both in Russia and abroad but also holds educational events, master classes, presentations, etc., aimed to advance and promote Russian contemporary music.
Alongside this, MolOt organizes a symphonic seminar that provides young musicians with the opportunity to create scores for the symphony orchestra and have their compositions performed. In 2016, a system of seminar-based education for young composers, performers and musicologists, known as the MolOt International Creative Workshops, was reintroduced via MolOt branches throughout all of Eurasia. MolOt also released a collection on the works of Russian composers under 35 years of age titled “Young Russian Composers” (Compozitor Publishing House, 2010) and a music anthology of modern composers on two CDs (FANCYMUSIC record label).
MolOt places significant importance on the contemporary music ensembles under its auspices. The most prominent among them is the MolOt Ensemble of Saint Petersburg performing under the artistic direction of Artur Zobnin in Russia and abroad. Artistic Director Mehdi Hosseini
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