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 2019 INTERSECTIO A POIN OF POIN A 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) Tekhnologicheskiy Institute Obvodniy en.remusik.org Kanal 5 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 AI 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,