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A Reality in Which Everything is Substitution
Luciano Berio
Sequenza (1958)
für Flöte solo
Sequenza by
Berio marks a change in the way that the flute was considered by
composers. It expanded the timbral and sonic possibilities, as well as
opened the door to the exploration of extended techniques for the
instrument.
Luciano
Berio was one of the twentieth century's most prolific composers, and
considered Italy's leading musical pioneer of his era.
Cecilia Arditto
Musica invisible
für Flöte und Tänzer
Arditto’s
piece explores "how emptiness could be so active". This work for solo
flute and dancer works with the limits of perception: very narrow
register in microtonal steps, extreme dynamic levels in the pianissimo,
silence as a constitutive musical material. Sound builds a discontinuous
line with very few elements. Dance creates a discontinuous space in the
darkness, coming into sight here and there from the obscurity as a
sound comes out from silence.” (text by Wobbe van der Meulen).
Cecilia
Arditto (born in Buenos Aires 1966) studied music at the Conservatorio
Julián Aguirre, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Música Contemporánea
(CEAMC) and Conservatory of Amsterdam (cum laude); she took composition
lessons in Argentina with Gabriel Valverde and Mariano Etkin; analysis
with Margarita Fernandez among others.
Cathy Miliken
Round Robin (2001)
für Piccolo solo
A short vignette, the piccolo movement of Round Robin by Milliken will conclude the first half.
Catherine
Milliken completed her music degree in Australia majoring in
performance (piano and oboe) and continued her studies in Europe under
Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue as well as completing her studies in
the Dalcroze Method of teaching music. As a founding member of the
renowned group for contemporary music, Ensemble Modern Germany, she has
worked with leading composers and conductors of this century including
Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Karlheinz
Stockhausen. She lives in Berlin as a freelance performer, composer,
creative director and educational program consultant.
Chris Cerrone
Liminal Highway (2016)
für Flöte und 4-Kanal-Elektronik
Liminal Highway | John K. Samson
when you fall asleep in transit
you rarely wake up much closer
to where you want to be
and you’ve missed the song
you were waiting to hear
coming up after the ad for a
funeral home and the traffic and weather
in a town you’ll never live in
or even see now that you’ve passed it
in a dream you don’t recall
and you know there is a word
for those seconds between
consciousness and sleep where you
have arrived at your destination
accomplished your tasks and
concurrently settled into a
big old house that needs some work
next to the funeral home
with some endlessly interesting and
kind person you love unflinchingly
and traffic is moving well
weather is fair
you think that word might be “liminal”
but you are not certain so you don’t
mention it to the driver who’s name
you cannot remember
though you likely know him
as well as you know anyone
and you are so weary
with loitering between here
and there then and then
beauty and function you wish
you were a three hole punch
sleek shiny black and a
mysteriously pleasant weight
assisting children with their
school presentations while
slowly stockpiling confetti
for no particular occasion
just some average day
suddenly it is needed
The
piece was co-commissioned by the Miller Theatre and New Music USA.
Cerrone says he had no interest in writing a simple solo flute piece but
wanted to create something completely new….Cerrone took the title for
his new work from a poem by the Canadian indie rock musician John K.
Samson, which begins with the premise ‘when you fall asleep in transit.’
Each of the piece’s five movements is subtitled after a particular line
in the poem.” - Thomas May.
Chris
Cerrone (born 1984) is an American composer based in New York City. He
was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation
commission recipient, a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, and
has received numerous awards from ASCAP.
Matthias Pintscher
Beyond a System of Passing (2014)
für Flöte
Matthias
Pintscher develops his flute writing further in beyond a system (of
passing). “Every sound from a flute is ‘connected to breathing’ – no
instrument is articulated so close to the air stream itself. The
instrument, vibrating in direct contact with the human breath and acting
as an extension of the breathing body, carries within itself the
archaism of many millennia and builds its communicative bridge over to
the present time.”
Matthias
Pintscher is the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain,
entering his third season in 2015/16. Beginning in 2016/17 he also takes
up post as Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy. He
continues his partnerships with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as
its Artist-in-Association, and with the Danish National Symphony
Orchestra as Artist-in-Residence. Equally accomplished as conductor and
composer, Pintscher sees his two main spheres of activity as entirely
complementary; he has created significant works for the world’s leading
orchestras, and his intrinsic understanding of the score from the
composer’s perspective informs his ability to communicate on the podium.
Anthony Pateras
a reality in which everything is substitution (2014)
für Flöte UA
The
piece will be premiered this evening; the work was commissioned by
Andonovska with the assistance of the Freedman Fellowship award.
Anthony Pateras (born 1979) is an Australian composer, pianist and
electronic musician active in exploratory music since the late 1990s.
His work explores multiple creative approaches including notation,
improvisation, electro-acoustic performance and multi-disciplinary
projects.
Salvatore Sciarrino
Canzone di Ringraziamento (1985)
für Flöte
The
programme concludes with Salvatore Sciarrino’s Canzone di
Ringraziamento which refers to the song of gratitude after a spell or
incantation has been cast. It appears in the composer’s L’opera per
flauto.
Salvatore
Sciarrino (b. 1947) started studying music at age 12 with Antonio
Titone and Turi Belifore. His music was first performed in 1962, at the
Third International Contemporary Music Week in Palermo. He has received
many prizes including the IGNM and Taormina (1971), Guido Monaco (1972),
Cassadó, IGMN and Dallapiccola (1974), Anno discografico (1979),
Psacaropoulos (1983), Abbiati (1983) and Premio Italia (1984).
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