This Saturday I will be conducting the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) at the Deutschlandfunk Köln in Cologne as part of the DLF-Forum Neuer Musik 2013. Among the highlights: Mauricio Kagel’s Exotica and the world premiere of Steingrimer Rolohff’s brand new work Colonies.
Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008)
20 April 2013, 8:00 pm
Deutschlandfunk Köln
Raderberggürtel 40
Cologne, DE 50968
Program:
Mauricio Kagel: Exotica für außereuropäische Instrumente
Unsuk Chin: Fantaisie Mécanique
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Steingrimur Rohloff: COLONIES
On the first day of 80 degree weather in New York City of 2013, I decided to go to Central Park and make some field recordings. Six soundscapes are presented in direct succession, see photos below.
“Listen to the storyteller and you will hear the music of history, you will weave the fabric of memory, and you may just rock the emporors throne as well.” – Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, undoubtedly the most celebrated African author of the modern period has passed away. Hailed as the father of African literature his first novel and magnum opus Things Fall Apart (1958) remains today the most widely read book in African Literature.
Conductor, Leon Botstein just wrote a wonderful piece on CNN that discusses and contextualizes Achebe’s work in the wider framework of globalization in art and literature.
This weekend I am conducting IEMA in two concerts at ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in a music series called Quantensprünge (quantum leaps).
March 16, 8pm
March 17, 8pm
Lorenzstraße 19
DE 76135 Karlsruhe
Program I: March 16, 8pm
Dariusz Przybylski: Green and Maroon
Franck Bedrossian: Transmission
Michèle Reverdy: La Délirante für Horn, Trompete und Posaune
Luciano Berio: Différences für 5 Instrumente und Tonband
Gérard Grisey: Vortex temporum I, II, III
Program II: March 16, 8pm
Anton Webern: Konzert op. 24
Nicolaus A. Huber: Fingercapriccio
Brigitta Muntendorf: behind her back
Heiner Goebbels: out of
Helmut Lachenmann: Toccatina
more info here
This week I will be conducting IEMA in a series of concerts at the Frankfurt HfMDK.
Frankfurt am Main Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende.
Eschersheimer Landstraße 29-39
DE 60322
March 11, 7:30pm Großer Saal
March 13, 7:30pm Kleiner Saal
March 14, 7:30pm Kleiner Saal
Programs below:
March 11, 7:30pm Großer Saal
Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte
Unsuk Chin: Fantaisie Mécanique
Steve Reich: Violin Phase
John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony
March 13, 7:30pm Kleiner Saal
Isang Yun: Rondell
Tristan Murail: Vues Aeriennes
André Jolivet: Heptade
Friedrich Cerha: Quintett für Oboe und Streichquartett
Franck Bedrossian: Transmission
Brigitta Muntendorf: behind her back
March 14, 7:30pm Kleiner Saal
Isang Yun: Quartett
Iannis Xenakis: Dmaathen
Luca Francesconi: Animus – a brainstorm
Dariusz Przybylski: Green and Maroon
Gérard Grisey: Vortex temporum
IEMA will be performing two concerts at the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau. A production of the opera “Down in the Valley”, and a collection of songs from “Huckleberry Finn”, the opera he was working on at the time of his death.
March 8th, 7:00pm
March 9th, 6:00pm
Marienkirche Dessau
Schloßplatz, DE 06844
More information can be found here.
This weekend Opera Moderne and Le Train Bleu will be presenting a three night run of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a one act opera written while Ullman was a prisoner of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. After secretly preparing the score, Ullmann was transfered to Auschwitz where he was eventually executed. The work is a thinly veiled satire of Hitler within a Brechtian aesthetic, Kurt Weill and early Schoenberg are both clear influences. Tickets are $65/45 and can be purchased at the door.
February 1, 2, and 3 (8/8/4pm)
at The Bohemian National Hall
The Czech Center New York
321 East 73rd Street
(btwn 1st & 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10021
No preface could do this justice.
Enjoy.
Vimbayi and I are working on releasing a digital album of my recent compositions “december steps”. As part of this I decided to try my hand at some original album art:
