29 Saturday Sep 2018
Posted in commission, Concerts, Festival, Premiers
UUDEN MUSIIKIN LOKAKUU, Oulu, Finland | Tulindbergin Hall | September 28th, 2018 | Even the sky screams sometimes too (2018) for solo accordion | Matti Pulkki – accordion
Even the sky screams sometimes too is commissioned by the Delian Academy for New Music with the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
16 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in commission, Festival, Premiers
Il Suono 2018 | The opening of the 3rd edition of the IlSuono Contemporary Music | Teatro Comunale Degli Illuminati | Città di Castello | Sunday, July 15 at 6:30 PM
Andrea Biagini, flute; Michele Bianchini, saxophone; Laura Mancini, percussion; Simone Nocchi, piano; Giacomo Piermatti, double bass; Theoharis Papatrechas, artistic director.
-PROGRAM-
*World Premiere|Winners of the Call For Scores & Commission 2017
28 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in commission, Festival
30 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in commission, Competition
The results of the International Call For Scores & Commission 2017, organized by Ensemble Suono Gialloand IlSuono Contemporary Music Week have been announced and I am glad to be one of the two winners of the Commission 2017 in a statement on their webpage and Facebook page issued on October 29th:
The selection process of the applications received for the International Call For Scores & Commission 2017, organized by Ensemble Suono Giallo and IlSuono Contemporary Music Week, ended, with the selection committee thoroughly reviewing applications by:
143 composers (a total of 278 works) from 34 countries
The selection committee went through a strong applicant pool, including a large number of exceptional entries, making the decision process quite challenging. We would like to THANK all composers who sent in their music and trusted us with it. And, feeling grateful to the large amount of interest shown in the call, the committee decided to offer TWO commissions this year.
SELECTED WORKS FOR PERFORMANCE
We are excited to announce the following works have been selected to be included in the repertoire of ensemble Suono Giallo and its concert programs for the following season.
due forme dell’insonnia (2017) for sax, perc, pno
by Marco Longo (Italy, 1979)
L’erotisme sacré (2012) for fl, pno, and elec
by Taylor Brook (Canada/USA, 1985)
l’œil brisé (2017) for sax, perc, and elec
by Yiqing Zhu (China, 1989)
Piccolo inventario degli insetti (2017) for fl, sax, perc, pno, and elec
by Claudio Panariello (Italy, 1989)
will the voice remain the same (2015-17) for fl, sax, perc, pno
by Charles Kwong (UK/Hong Kong, 1985)
STATISTICS
• 143 applications
• 10 applications were rejected;
-4 provided nonfunctional links
-6 submitted scores and/or recordings with composer’s identifying information (e.g. name in the score, soundcloud links)
• 23% of the applications were by female composers and 77% by male composers.
• 34 countries
Follow the link for a more analytical representation of statistical data. https://www.ilsuonoacademy.com/call-for-scores-2017
02 Monday May 2016
Posted in commission, Recording, video w/score
“d’ ogne luce muto…” (2003), for piano. Commissioned by SCI and ASCAP. Ioanna Polisoidis – piano.
Published by BabelScores (http://www.babelscores.com/catalog/instrumental/d-ogne-luce-muto)
Program notes:
The work consists of a limited number of brief chord progressions that are woven, rewoven, and occasionally juxtaposed to form longer static moments into the structure. The reduction of the sound elements, on the other hand, is intended to shift the listeners’ attention to the inner life of the piano – it’s resonance, so that the music exists rather in the space between the piano and the audience.
09 Tuesday Feb 2016
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Parallel Thirds: Polifonia in due | Duo Goliardi, Porta Theater, Athens, Greece. Time: 21:15
The premiere of my work Even the sky screams sometimes too (2015) for alto recorder and bajan, a commission by the Duo Goliardi (Dimitrios Kountouras — recorders and Constantinos Raptis – bajan), is coming up next week on stage of the PORTA theater in Athens, Greece (https://www.facebook.com/events/1539010826427835/).
The concert takes places within the frame of the concert series “Parallel Thirds” of the Porta Theater (http://www.porta-theatre.gr/index.php/el/trites-paralliles/153-polifoniaindue) and the rest of the program entails works by J.S.Bach, S. Gubaidulina, B. Bartók, J. Walther, J.C. Veihlan, and Periklis Liakakis.
PORTA Theater
Mesogeion 59 11526, Athens, Greece
http://porta-theatre.gr, E-mail: info@porta-theatre.gr
Info – Reservation: Phone: 210 771 1333 | boxoffice@porta-theatre.gr
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in commission, New works
New work: Even the sky, screams sometimes too, for alto recorder and concert accordion (bajan).
The work was commissioned by the Duo Goliardi — Dimitrios-Menelaos Kountouras, recorders & Kostas Raptis, bajan.
Rehearsals have already begun. The premiere is coming up on February 16th 2016 at Porta Theater, Athens.
More info in future posts.
24 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in commission, Premiers
10 Years Ensemble Zeitfluss – Anniversary concert | October 27, 2014 | Minoritensaal, Graz, Austria | 20:00 |
Ensemble Zeitfluss. Edo Micic – conductor
This coming Monday, the Ensemble Zeitfluss (www.ensemble-zeitfluss.com) is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a concert that combines the old with the new. The program features two works by Charles Ives as well as commissioned miniatures—happy birthday pieces—by composers who have strong ties with the ensemble.
I am very happy to be part of this celebration with a new piece, Translucent Currents, for large ensemble.
Full Program
Charles Ives: Country Band March, 3 Lieder (1922), arrangiert von Anselm Schaufler
Miniatures by: Denovaire, Klaus Dorfegger, Elisabeth Harnik, Mirela Ivičević, Joachim Jung, Gerhard Krammer, Gerd Kühr, Klaus Lang, Daniel Oliver Moser, Gerd Noack, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Anselm Schaufler, Krešimir Seletković, Gerhard Stäbler, Orestis Toufektsis, Joanna Wozny
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten – Minoritensaal
Lendplatz: 
40,67 Südtirolerplatz: 
1,3,6,7,14 Schloßbergplatz: 4,513 Monday Oct 2014
The ensemble et cetera — Dustin Donahue, marimba; Curt Miller, clarinet; Scott Worthington, double bass — performing my work Intrascalings on stage of the Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall (University of California, San Diego) on October 10th, 2014. Photos courtesy of Anahita Abbasi.
These guys did a phenomenal job! A young ensemble with great prospects.
Posted by Dimitri Papageorgiou | Filed under commission, Premiers
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
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Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall | University of California, San Diego | Friday, October 10th, 2014 | 7:00 pm
Free Admission
Upcoming Friday, the ensemble et cetera is performing the premier of my work Intrascalings for clarinet, marimba, and double bass, at the state-of-the-art Music Center at University of California San Diego campus (http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts/). The ensemble will premier works commissioned from three of the five winners of their 2013 Composition Competition.
Joseph Andrew Lake: Vyssan Lull, Timothy McCormack: KILN II, and Dimitri Papageorgiou: Intrascalings
Ensemble et cetera is a trio based in Southern California. Formed by three friends in 2010, et cetera seeks to create a repertoire for their unusual instrumentation through new commissions, electro-acoustic works and realizations of unconventional scores reflecting their myriad interests in the American and European avant-garde.
Ensemble et cetera is Curt Miller – clarinets, Dustin Donahue – percussion, Scott Worthington – double bass. For more information on the ensemble et cetera, please visit http://ens-etc.org and https://twitter.com/ensemble_etc
For driving directions to the Conrady Prebys Music Center, please see http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/directions/directions-pages.php?i=601
17 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in commission, Recording
Iriai no kane [9:00] for chamber ensemble (commissioned by Edo Micic and the Ensemble Zeitfluss) | Performed by the Ensemble Zeitfluss, Edo Micic – conductor | Minoritensaal at the Kultur Zentrum Minoriten, Graz, Austria | June 23, 2008.
01 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Tomorrow, July 2nd, the string quartet of the ensemble Klangforum Wien premiers my work Quasi (ébauche) within the frame of two concluding concerts of the research project Patterns of Intuition.
Patterns of Intuition II
String quartett of the ensemble Klangforum Wien: Annette Bik – violin, Sophie Schafleitner – violin, Dimitrios Polisoidis – viola, Andreas Lindenbaum – cello.
Works by Alexander Stankovski, Djuro Zivkovic, Eva Reiter, and Dimitri Papageorgiou.
Organized by the Gesellschaft der Freunde der KUG Wednesday,
02-07-2014, 19:45
MUMUTH, György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz
Info: Tel: +43 316/389-1330 ; abo(at)kug.ac.at
The concerts Pattern of Intuition I (17:45) and II (Mumuth subscription concert, 19:45) present works for solo piano and string quartet that have been composed during the three year long research project POINT. The research project has been conducted at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustic of the University of Music and Drama at Graz in cooperation with an international team of composers and scientists from various disciplines.
The research project POINT, which has been financed by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) opens a new approach to musical analysis, in that the creative act of composition is investigated with computer-based methods during the creation of new works.
In between the two concerts, project leader dr. Gerhard Nierhaus and his staff will give an introductory speech about the project.
14 Thursday Mar 2013
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Saturday, March 20 2013 | Zeughaus Kultur Brig-Glis, Switzerland | 20:30 Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) perform for the first time in Switzerland “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder, a work commissioned by this extraordinary Swiss contemporary music duo.
The work is a maze of utterances of an uncanny, palpitating sound, which unravels in winding paths, with interconnected twists and turns, through algorithmic mutations and reformulations, continuously circling back to itself by creating and not resolving the dialectics that underly its construction. Its mazing construction lacks of an entrance, a center, and possibility of escape; it is a maze without a monster and a death-defying hero . . .
The title is a quotation of a verse from the poem Everness by the Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Louis Borges:
And everything is part of that diverse
Crystal of memory, the universe;
Unending are the mazes it engenders
“Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” is part of the Greece Project by UMS ‘n JIP commissions works for either recorder, voice & electronics in any combination for 2 performers by young and established contemporary Greek composers Antonis Rouvelas, Zesses Seglias, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Panagiotis Kokoras, Dimitris Maronidis, Haris Kittos, Michalis Lapidakis, Dimitris Papageorgiou. The program intends to introduce different contemporary Greek composer’s works which are complementary to UMS ‘n JIP’s own works and/or especially inspiring for them. It will be premiers at the Thessaloniki University in February 2013. The Greece Project will be further performed on tour by UMS ‘n JIP in 2013/14.
19 Tuesday Feb 2013
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Ums n’ Jip premiers Unending are the Mazes it Engenders for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder, a work commissioned by this extraordinary Swiss contemporary music duo.
“Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” is part of the Greece Project by UMS ‘n JIP commissioned works for either recorder, voice & electronics in any combination for two performers by young and established contemporary Greek composers Antonis Rouvelas, Zesses Seglias, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Panagiotis Kokoras, Dimitris Maronidis, Haris Kittos, Michalis Lapidakis, Dimitris Papageorgiou.
The program intends to introduce different contemporary Greek composers’ works which are complementary to UMS ‘n JIP’s own works and/or especially inspiring for them. It will be premiered in the concert series of the Contemporary Music Lab of the Department of Music Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The Greece Project will be further performed on tour by UMS ‘n JIP in 2013/14.
30 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
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Dimitrios Polisoidis
Dimitrios Polisoidis, principal violist of the Klangforum Ensemble Vienna, premiers “…anD…”for solo viola at an Andere Saite concert. January 30th, 2013 Minoritensaal, Graz, Austria.
Program Notes:
“… anD … ” is a challenging, unquenchablly intricate recital piece that allows the performer to display his/her technical prowess. This sense of bravura is unequivocally inspired by Dimitrios Polisoidis’s dazzling virtuosic skill, to whom the work is heartly dedicated.
The surface of the work, with its prevalent rhythm driven, capriciously pulsating, microtonally detuned, spiccato articulated riffs and runs interwoven with layers of percussive sounds (col legno battuto, finger tappings, pizzicati) or natural harmonics in staccato, is destortedly reminiscent of the 19th century salon music. Sudden offbeat accents and metrical shifts keep an intense energy plane until the end.
Virtuosic pyrotechnics aside, however, the inner workings of the piece below the surface take on a cerebral as well as organic, self-referential approach. The composition belongs to a series of works written over the past few years that explore a special interlacing technique: short and trite musical objects (two brief series of notes, in this case) are braided in labyrithoid fashion, constantly revealing different perspectives of the material within the development of the musical discourse.
30 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Ensemble Interface premiers “In Pulses, in Strokes…” for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion.
Ensemble Interface describe themselves as an international collective of young musicians devoted to the virtuosic performance and innovative dissemination of contemporary classical music. Founded in 2009, they have been quickly recognized as one of the leading young ensembles in Europe dedicated to interfacing contemporary music and culture in Germany and abroad through performance, educational activities, and research.
Bettina Danielle Berger – flute, Juko Fukumae – bass clarinet, Maiko Matsuoka – violin, Christoph Mathias – cello, Agnieska Koprowska – percussion, and Anna D’Errico – piano. Scott Voyles, conductor.
