Wilhem Latchoumia Recital and new repertoire Piano & electronics Franck bedrossian, jerome dorival, yann orlarey, franck yeznikian, pierre jodlowski, gerard pesson, georges aperghis Lecture of Yann Orlarey (GRAME) Faust – New approach of sound computation US Tour – october 2013 National center for musical creation 9, RUE DU GARET T. 0033 (0)4 72 07 37 00 Contact: Aline VALDENAIRE BP 1185 F. 0033 (0)4 72 07 37 01 Production & artistic coordination 69202 LYON CEDEX 01 — Tel : 0033 (0)4 72 07 43 11 FRANCE WWW.GRAME.FR [email protected] « Composing for the piano today ? Here is a title that could sum up the scope of this recital. Post-War Serialism has been a solution for many composers, but could be quickly limited. Young generation has managed to escape from that stronf influence, without however, make a clean sweep of the past. Georges Aperghis, Pierre Jodlowski and Franck Bedrossian use electronics, which boosts the ability to create new piano sounds. Gerard Pesson sets itself up as «father» Couperin for a face to face-like nostalgia. Yann Orlarey and Jérôme Dorival got inspired by an old treaty to transcribe the piano, an instrument of all possibili- ties. For his part, Frank Yeznikian searches into black color, a symbol of the origins, and extracts a light. The piano, an instrument king of the nineteenth century, still talks to us, and opens to new languages​​, still inviting us to travel with poetry.» Wilhem Latchoumia Wilhem Latchoumia Recital and new repertoire Piano & electronics PROGRAM FRANCK BEDROSSIAN New repertoire (2013) 15’ piano & electronics / Musical production GRAME Commissioned by GRAME. With the support of Sacem. JEROME DORIVAL – YANN ORLAREY La rhétorique des doigts (1991) 10’ piano solo FRANCK YEZNIKIAN Par le Noir (The Anatomy of ...) (2010) 4’ piano solo PIERRE JODLOWSKI Serie Blanche (2007) - Serie Noire: Thriller (2006) 16’ piano & electronics GERARD PESSON Ambre nous resterons (2008) 5’ piano solo GEORGES APERGHIS Dans le Mur (2007) 15’ piano & electronics Sound synthesis and Signal processing with faust LECTURE by yann orlarey FAUST is simple and powerful programming language for real-time signal processing and synthesis. FAUST offers a concise and elegant syntax while providing powerful and unique means to automatically translates audio processing descriptions into ultra-fast high quality C++ programs. FAUST can be used for a variety of purposes, form standalone audio applications to VST plugins as well as plugins for Max/MSP, Puredata, Supercollider, Csound and several other systems. It provides also some innovative features like automatic documentation used for long term preservation purposes. This workshop is a unique opportunity to discover the various aspects of FAUST through progressive demonstrations and concrete examples. The participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with their own computer. The FAUST distribution can be freely downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/faudiostream/files/latest/down- load. But it is also possible to use FAUST on-line (without any installation) from http://faust.grame.fr. No previous knowledge of FAUST is required, but some familiarity with existing systems like Max, PD, Supercollider etc. can be useful. Wilhem Latchoumia | Piano Born in Lyon in 1974. Wilhem Latchoumia unanimously obtained the Gold Medal at the Conservatoire Nation- al de Region of Lyon (Anne-Marie Lamy’s class), then the first Prize with congratulations from the jury at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse of Lyon (Eric Heidsieck’s and Gery Moutier’s classes). He end- ed his training with Gery Moutier in perfection classes. He was Claude Helffer’s student and followed Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen’s and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s master classes. He held a bachelor’s degree in musicology. Wilhem Latchoumia performs regularly in recitals, in concertos and in chamber music concerts. In France, he has performed at the Musee d’Orsay and at the Cite de la Musique in Paris, in Menton, in Lyon and during peri- ods of residency at Royaumont. He has also been invited to play in many festivals such as the International Festival “Piano aux Jacobins” of Toulouse, the “Annecy Festival Estival et Academies”, the “Musicales Internationales Guil-Durance”, the International Festival “Musique à l’Emperi” in Salon-de-Provence, the International Festival of Besançon, the Orangerie de Sceaux Music Festival, the Piano International Festival of La Roque d’Antheron and the Festival “Jeunes Talents” in Metz. Abroad, the public has had the pleasure of hearing him in the following festivals: Gubbio Summer Festival in Italy, “Young Euro Classic 2002” Festival in Berlin, Xeraciòn Festival in Spain, at the Institute For Contemporary Performance at Mannes College in New York, at the Beijing Modern Music Festival in 2007 in China, at the 39th Encuentros Festival of Buenos Aires in Argentine. His numerous tours have taken him to Lebanon, China, Turkey, Estonia, Belarus, Poland, and very recently South America. Wilhem Latchoumia has played as a soloist conducted by Gilbert Amy (Stravinsky), Peter Csaba (Messiaen, Bartòk, Amy), Fabrice Pierre (Berg, Messiaen) with the Rostow Symphony orchestra conducted by Andrei Galanov and with the Seoul and Daejean philharmonic orchestras. He has been invited by several regional orchestras such as the Na- tional Orchestra of Lille, with which he will perform Anthony Girard’s piano and orchestra concerto in September 2010. He will also perform with the Teatro Colon orchestra in Argentina in October 2010. In Sep- tember 2011, he will perform in a creation around Daughters of the lone- some Isle (John Cage) whilst in residence at the Royaumont Foundation. His passion for contemporary music has led him to collaborate with com- posers such as Pierre Boulez, Gilbert Amy, Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Frederic Pattar, Frederic Kahn, Karl Naegelen, José Manuel Lopez-Lopez and Pierre Jodlowski. Wilhem Latchoumia also collaborates with the cho- reographers Philippe Cohen (Strasbourg Festival Musica, in Luxembourg) and Stanislaw Wisniewski (on tour in Lyon, in Poland, Belarus, Spain). Laureate of the Hewlett-Packard Foundation “Musicians of Tomorrow» (2004) and of the 12th International Competition of Contemporary Mu- sic for piano Xavier Montsalvatge (Girona, Spain), he walked away with the First prize Special Distinction Blanche Selva in February 2006, as well as five other prizes in the Orléans International Piano Competition. Wilhem Latchoumia has recorded two discs: “Piano and Electronic Sounds” rewarded by a Choc du Monde de la Musique, and «Impressoes» at Sony BMG / RCA, acclaimed by the critics (Choc du Monde de la Musique, Dia- pason d’or, the best recording for the magazine Audio Clasica [Spain]). “His capacity to slip between the different spaces of music is combined with the ability to read between the lines of a score. Thus, he delivers Crumb’s Nocturnal Fantasia with clearness that will be the privilege of Liszt’s legacy (Nuages Gris, Funérailles), and the festal flights of fancy of Villa Lobos (Cicl Brasileiro)” Pierre Gervasoni | Le Monde (23rd of August 2007) “The summit is reached with Archipel IV by André Boucourechliev. A contemporary work, reputed to be difficult but which the pianist invites us to devour like a detective novel.” Olivier Bellamy | Le Parisien (19th of August 2007) “We can’t resist Latchoumia’s charismatic breath, nor his poetry!” Alain Cochard | Concertclassic (12th h of April 2007) “A brilliant young pianist: a dramatic elegance, a pallet of sounds, a supple and franc touch” Télérama (November 2006) Franck Bedrossian’s new repertoire New repertoire (2013) 15’ piano & electronics Musical production GRAME. Commissioned by GRAME. With the support of Sacem “This piece and its disposal’s main feature is that the piano is prepared in two ways: first with objects situ- ated in the sounding box of the piano, but also through the electronic disposal (doubled electronic and acous- tic sounds, speed effects, time lag between acoustic and electronic sounds, real time sound alteration, etc). The aim is finally to create a meta-piano, or piano extended. Numerous musical possibilities shall result, and first a per- manent perceptive ambiguity. As a matter of fact, one could hardly tell, at times, whether the sounds come from the in- strument or the speaker. This feeling shall be reinforced through the disposal, especially thanks to one or two speakers broadcasting electronic sounds, placed on the stage just behind the pianist. In this way, there would be a double ambi- guity, first materially (through the broadcasting disposal) and then musically (definition of sounds and musical scope). The sounding ambivalence shall be one of the aspects that will lead the musical scope and the poetical en- vironment. This will be my first piece with electronics, that will not be divided into two concurrent musi- cal spaces, and that will not play with the differences between electronics and acoustics, but rather with the subtle correspondences and acoustic illusions coming from these two media fusion.” Franck Bedrossian. Franck Bedrossian | Composer Franck Bedrossian was born in Paris in1971. After studying harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and analysis at the National Conservatory of Paris, he studied composition with Allain Gaussin and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (class of Gerard Grisey and Marco Stroppa) where he obtained a first prize of analysis and the diploma of higher studies in composition unanimously. In 2002-2003,