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Gubaidulina EU 572772 Bk Gubaidulina EU 26/07/2011 07:59 Page 1 572772 bk Gubaidulina EU_572772 bk Gubaidulina EU 26/07/2011 07:59 Page 1 Anders Loguin Øyvind Gimse Anders Loguin studied percussion at the Royal Øyvind Gimse is Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Soloists and a distinguished College of Music in Stockholm, and conducting in cellist and orchestral leader. After studies with Walter Nothas, Frans Helmerson Sweden, Finland and the United States. He and William Pleeth, he held the position of solo cellist in the Trondheim Sofia frequently conducts orchestras and ensembles in Symphony Orchestra for seven years. He has toured as a soloist with the Sweden and abroad. He was a founding member of Trondheim Soloists in Norway, Britain, Italy and Spain. His performances with the percussion ensemble Kroumata, and left the Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Trondheim Soloists throughout Europe and at the ensemble in 2008, co-founding the Carnegie Hall in 1999, as well as the recordings with her and the ensemble for GUBAIDULINA ensemble Glorious Percussion, which gave the DG, have received the highest critical acclaim. In addition his own work as world première of Sofia Gubaidulina’s work of the Artistic Leader of the Trondheim Soloists has resulted in the group receiving no same name for five percussionists and less than five GRAMMY® nominations for their last two recordings. In 2004 orchestra. Loguin participated in the world Gimse joined Sofia Gubaidulina as soloist in her work On the Edge of the première concerts of Fachwerk in 2009. Since 1977 Abyss at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival and during the world Photo: Brita Carlens he has been professor and head of the percussion première concert performances of Fachwerk with Geir Draugsvoll and the department at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Anders Loguin was elected a member of the Royal Photo: Arild Juul Amsterdam Sinfonietta, he was invited to performe the solo cello part. Since Swedish Academy of Music in 2002. In 2008 His Majesty the King of Sweden awarded him the royal medal 1997 Gimse has held the position of Professor of Strings at the Institute for Music (NTNU) in Trondheim. He has also “Litteris et Artibus” for his outstanding contribution to the field of music and art in Sweden and abroad. taught elsewhere in Scandinavia, Poland, Vietnam and South Africa. In recent years he has, under the guidance of Jorma Panula, developed his conducting skills as a natural extension of his leadership rôle in the Trondheim Soloists. Geir Inge Lotsberg Fachwerk Trondheim Symphony Orchestra Geir Inge Lotsberg has distinguished himself as one of Norway’s most active chamber musicians. After studies with Leif Jørgensen, Sándor Végh, Camilla Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1909, takes its Wicks and Ana Chumachenco, he became one of the founding members of the place in the extensive musical heritage of the city of Oslo String Quartet. He is a widely experienced musician with a number of Trondheim. Before the nineteenth century Trondheim was Silenzio recordings to his credit as a chamber musician and as a member of ensembles the main focal point for sacred music in Scandinavia. This such as the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, and as encouraged many significant musicians of the time to settle concert-master of the Bergen Philharmonic and Norwegian National Opera there. The growth and expansion of European music culture orchestras. He has appeared as a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic, the in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was also mirrored Geir Draugsvoll, Bayan Norwegian Radio Symphony, and Camerata Academica Salzburg. Lotsberg is within the city. This period saw the foundation of several much in demand as a teacher and orchestra leader, working regularly with the music societies. The development of the orchestra gained Trondheim Soloists and teaching at Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo. impetus with the jubilee of St Olav in 1930. In more recent Anders Loguin, Percussion times the orchestra has established a solid position in local www.lotsberg.no musical life and that of Norway as a whole. Recent Geir Inge Lotsberg, Violin Photo: Christian Nilsen successful tours in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and China has enhanced the orchestra’s international reputation. From 2009 the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra has continued its development through closer Øyvind Gimse, Cello cooperation with the Trondheim Soloists, resulting in an increased complement of ninety musicians. The Chief Photo: Bo Mathisen Conductor is currently Krzysztof Urbanski. Trondheim Symphony Orchestra www.tso.no Øyvind Gimse 8.572772 5 8.572772 6 572772 bk Gubaidulina EU_572772 bk Gubaidulina EU 26/07/2011 07:59 Page 2 Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) and Persian writers and contemporary lyric poetry by “A musical instrument does in fact exist which makes it Geir Draugsvoll Marina Tsvetayeva, for whom she feels a deep spiritual possible to realise this idea. It is the bayan, on which one Fachwerk • Silenzio affinity. can switch the keyboard from the melodic mode to the Geir Draugsvoll has earned world-wide recognition “To my mind the ideal relationship to tradition and to chordal mode. as one of the most important musicians and pioneers Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Praemium Imperiale (Tokyo, 1998), the Prize of the Léonie new compositional techniques is the one in which the artist “In one and the same row of buttons, one has the on his instrument, the bayan, with a repertoire ranging Republic on 24th October 1931. She studied the piano with Sonning Music Foundation in Copenhagen (1999), the has mastered both the old and the new, though in a way dynamics of a melodic line above or below and, at the same from arrangements of music by Bach, Mozart, Grieg Grigory Kogan and composition, and graduated from the Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation’s Honorary Medal in which makes it seem that he is taking note of neither the one time, the stasis of chord sounds in the middle of the sound and Stravinsky to contemporary classics such as Kazan Conservatory in 1954. Until 1959 she studied Gold (2000), the Goethe Medal of the City of Weimar nor the other. There are composers who construct their area at one’s disposal. Gubaidulina, Hosokawa, Berio, Nørgaard and composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai (2001), the Polar Music Prize (2002), the Great works very consciously; I am one of those who ‘cultivate’ “In this structure, in principle, there is a dominant (the Piazzolla. Through collaborations with many Peiko, Shostakovich’s assistant, and then did postgraduate Distinguished Service Cross of the Order of Merit of the them. And for this reason everything I have assimilated melodic line above), a subdominant (the melodic line composers, he has given world premières of a large work under Vissarion Shebalin. She has been active as a Federal Republic of Germany (2002) as well as the Living forms as it were the roots of a tree, and the work its branches below) and a tonic (chords in the centre of the system) – number of works, and works by Sofia Gubaidulina composer since 1963. In 1975, together with Viktor Suslin Composer Prize in the Cannes Classical Awards 2003. and leaves. One can indeed describe them as being new, but three aspects that determine the essence of order in the have a particularly prominent place in his concert and Vyacheslav Artyomov, she founded the ‘Astreya’ Although Sofia Gubaidulina’s education and they are leaves nonetheless, and seen in this way they are universe. programmes and discography. The collaboration Ensemble, which specialised in improvising on rare background are Russian, it is important to bear in mind the always traditional and old. Dmitry Shostakovich and Anton “In my composition for bayan, percussion and strings, I between Draugsvoll and Gubaidulina culminated in Russian, Caucasian, Central Asian and East Asian folk and significance of her Tatar origins. She is not, however, a Webern have had the greatest influence on my work. have tried to show this characteristic of the instrument in 2009 when he gave the world première of her latest ritual instruments. These hitherto unknown sounds and Romantic nationalist. Her compositional mastery enables Although my music bears no apparent traces of it, these two the cadencing moments of a variation form. In one of the concerto, Fachwerk, which was dedicated to him. timbres and ways of experiencing musical time had a her to make use of contemporary techniques evolved by the composers taught me the most important lesson of all: to be most important sections, however, the succession of chords Draugsvoll has performed throughout Europe, in the profound influence on her creative work. Since the early European and American avant-garde, though in a wholly myself.” (Sofia Gubaidulina) of the keyboard played in the chordal mode sounds United States, China and Japan, appearing in major 1980s, and especially as a result of the support and individual manner. Furthermore, oriental philosophies have simultaneously with its melodic variant. And here, I could concert halls and in festivals, and collaborating with encouragement given to her by Gidon Kremer, her works had an influence on certain aspects of her music. A striking Fachwerk (Timber Framing) say without exaggeration that this section was composed by distinguished conductors. His extensive discography have been performed widely in western countries. With feature of Gubaidulina’s work is the almost total absence of for Bayan, Percussion and String Orchestra the instrument itself.” includes recordings for EMI, BIS, Simax, Delos, Schnittke, Denisov and Silvestrov, she is now seen to be one ‘absolute’ music. The vast majority of her pieces have an (dedicated to Geir Draugsvoll) DaCapo, Dreyer-Gaido and many others. Geir of the leading representatives of the New Music in the extra-musical dimension, e.g. a poem, either set to music or Silenzio for Bayan, Violin and Cello Draugsvoll is Norwegian, born at Voss, and studied in former Soviet Union.
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