Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music 3-26-2008 Guest Artist Series:Stephan Vermeersch, Clarinet Stephen Vermeersch Clarinet Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Vermeersch, Stephen Clarinet, "Guest Artist Series:Stephan Vermeersch, Clarinet" (2008). School of Music Programs. 3310. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/3310 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I Illinois 5tate (Jniversit_y f College offine Arts School of Music I I: ,, Guest Artist Series R..ecital ot Contemporar_y Solo Music tor 11. Clarinet - 5ass Clarinet I Stephan Vermeersch, Clarinet I I ,I. I I Center for the f erfonning Arts :1 March 26, 2008 · Wednesda!:J E_vening I' 8:obp.m. This is the one hundred and twent!;J-ninth program of the 2007-2008 season. I f rogram I About the Artist .... flea s e tum oft cell phones a ri d pagers tor the dura tion ot the concert. Thank You. I Stephan Vermeersch: clarinet/bass clarinet - saxophones - Belgium O 1965 Madrigal I Cl 958) for clarinet solo Henri Pousseur Studied clarinet, bass clarinet, chamber music and contemporary music at the Lemmeninstituut, Leuven, C0 June 23th 1929, Malmedy, Belgium) I l Belgium and the Royal Conservatory, Gent, Belgium. KadenzTanz Cl986) for bass clarinet solo Reinhard Karger As soloist he performs mainly contemporary music and C0 May 3th 1953, Tubingen, Germany) was invited to perform at contemporary festivals in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, U.K, USA, Labyriuthes (1997) for clarinet solo Michel Lysight I J Canada, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, Lithuania and C0 1958, Belgium) Japan. He wor)cs also a lot with electronics and improvisation. The only !).int . .. (2006) for clarinet solo Julia Gomelskaya He is soloist with the Rajhans Ensemble-India inspired music-with performances in India, Pakistan, USA, UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden, Egypte, Italy, Germany, 0 th I ( March 11 1964, Saratov, Russia) Russia and Mongolia. Reversing Fields (1995) for clarinet solo Violeta Dinescu ' Recently he started the Duo Phoenix with soprano Franvoise Vanhecke with marvelous 0 th ( July 13 1953, Bucharest, Romania) repertoire from composers worldwide. Performances in Belgium, Ukraine, Lithuania and Italy. Concerts coming up in China, Canada, Russia and Singapore ***********·** ,. I For 14 years he was member of the Ebony-kwartet (contemporary clarinet quartet) V.Runchak.B_CLARI@NET (2003) for clarinet solo Volodymyr Runchak Stephan has built an international reputation as a dynamic, virtuoso and charismatic ( 0 1960, Lutzk, Ukraine) performer. He also teaches in Belgium and the Netherlands. Reflections (Inner space Music - 1970) for clarinet solo Andre Laporte ,I II 0 th ( July 12 1931, Belgium) Outvoice, Outstep and Outwalk (2004) for bass clarinet solo Svitlana Azarova I f1 0 th ( Jan 9 1976, Izmail, Ukraine) I fl Raga Music (1957) for clarinet solo John Mayer ( 0 1930, Calcutta, India) Canzone (1989-1990) for clarinet solo- Tristan Keuris 0 th th ( October 3 1946 - December 15 1996, the Netherlands) I This recital is a demonstration oF the contemporar3 repertoire tor clarinet - bass clarinet concluding nearl3 all extended techni9ues: circular breathing, multi phonics, simultanuous pla::Jiilg and singing, slap (pitched, unpitched and I I percussive), micro intervals, glissandi, slurs .... The main goal however is to be expressive with sound. I I I About the Composers .... ·I I Michel Lysight (0 1958, Belgium) Labyriuthes (1997) for clarinet solo Henri Pousseur (0 June 23th 1929, Malmedy, Belgium) Madrigal I ( 1958) for clarinet solo Michel Lysight is a Belgo-canadian composer and conductor born in 1958. He studied music at the Schaerbeek Academy and in 1981 won the Government Medal for piano. In the late 50s and early 60s, Henri Pousseur composed three works entitled I Madrigal: the first (1958) was for solo clarinet (4 '); in 1961 came Madrigal After two years studying history of art at the "Universite Libre de Bruxell::s" (1976- II for 4 early instruments: flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord (3 '). 1978), he entered the "Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles" where he won Madrigal Ill (1962, 12') is for solo clarinet, violin, violoncello, rno first prizes in the history of music, methods of solfeggio, educational psychology, percussionists and piano. I harmony, counterpoint, fugue and bassoon. He also holds a graduate diploma in . solfeggio and chamber music. He studied conducting with Rene Defossez and won the Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liege and in Brussels from _ first prize with distinction ( 1997) and the graduate diploma (2002) in the Robert 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and Andre Janssens class ("Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles"). Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted .I I himself to avant-garde research. He was awarded his first prize for composition in 1989 at the "Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Moris" in Paul-Baudouin Michel's class. In the same year the "Dexia bank" commissioned him to compose the In 1954 he married Thea Schoonbrood with whom he had four children: Isabelle (1957), Denis (1958), obligatory piece for woodwinds, "Soleil bleu" for its mnual competition. "Quatrain" for wind quartet won Marianne (1961), and Helene (1965). I I the 1990 Irene Fuerison Prize of the "Academie Royae des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". He was awarded the Silver Medal with mention of the "Academie Internationale de Lutece" (Paris) in 1992 in its Beginning around I 960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the international competition for composers. The Union of Belgian Composers gave him the "Trophee Fuga opera Votre Faust (1961-68). 1997" for his activities in favour of the national repertoire. The discovery of such composers as Steve Reich, John Adams, Arvo Part or Henrik Mikolaj Gorecki, marked a turning point in his musical Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, md in the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well as in his native I development and made him one of the major personalities in New Consonant Music in Belgium. Belgium. From I 970 until his. retirement in 1988 he taught at the University and Conservatory of Liege In 1991 he founded the ensemble "Nouvelles Consonances", a group whose members vary, which is where he also founded the Centre de recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie. concerned with disseminating and recording his music. Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur's music employs Michel Lysight is a member of Sabam, the Union of Belgian Composers and the "Centre Beige de serial ism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, I Documentation Musicale" (CeBeDeM). His catalogue lists about fifty works. Most have been recorded on such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur's own serial style and the protest song a number of CDs, among which we should mention "Labyrinthes" (CD Cypres 4602) and "Ritual" "We shall overcome" (Couleurs croisees): (Kalidisc 2006). His electronic composition Scam bi (Exchanges), realized at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan in 1957, is Michel Lysight is a professor at the Royal Brussels Conservatory. He's president of the "Kaufmann unusual in the tape-music medium because it is explicitly meant to be assembled in different ways before European Music Competition" jury and is regularly invited by the Bilkent University of Ankara (Turkey) listening. When first created, several different versions weie realized, two by Luciano Berio, one by Marc for master classes. Wilkinson, and two by the composer himself (Sabbe 1977, 175, n. 86). Smee 2004, the Scamb1 ProJect, directed by John Dack at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, has forussed ll I Julia Gomelskaya (0 March 1 I'\ 1964, Saratov, Russia) on this work and its multiple possibilities for realization. The only hint . (2006) for clarinet solo In addition to his compositional and teaching activities, Pousseur has published many articles and ten Born in 1964. Graduated from Odessa State Music Academy (Ukraine) under prof. books on music, amongst which are Fragments Theoricpe I: sur la musique experimentale (Brussels: A.Krasotov obtaining a Diploma in Composition with distinction in 1990. She won the Universite Libre de Bruxell::s, 1970), Schumann le Poete: 25 moments d'une lecture de Dichterliebe I I I" prize in the Ukrainian National composers' competition named after Prokofiev (Paris: Klincksieck, 1993), and Musiques croisees (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997). (1993), the 3ro prize in the International Women composers' competition (Kiev, Ukraine, 1995), the 1st prize at the 2nd International Composition Contest of Comines (Belgium, 2003), the I~ prize at the 35 th Concours International de Chant Choral 2006 (Florilege de Tours, France, 2006). In 1994 she continued her education at the Reinhard Karger (0 May 3th 1953, i_:ubingen, Germany) I I international composers' workshop of the Gaudeamus foundation (Amsterdam, 1994). KadenzTanz (1986) for bass clarinet solo My musical research would have achieved their goal if the products the bent listener In 1995 she was awarded a fellowship for the postgraduate study by the Guildhall coming out from them could entice into a state of emergency - a condition, which is School of Music and Drama (London). She has received the Master of Music Degree in Composition with equally by "accessing" and "releasing" coined/shaped: the paradoxes unit of highest I distinction under prof.