08 Monday Apr 2013
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Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) present “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder in their master class at the ITÜ MIAM Centre of Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul.
08 Monday Apr 2013
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Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) perform “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder at Kunstraum Wacherturm in Zürich.
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
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Tuesday, March 5th 2013 | Konzerthaus Vienna, Mozart-saal | 19:30
Ensemble Klangforum Vienna perform “In the Vestige of the Present” for flute, cello, and piano.
The idea of EUROPE: a community directed to the service of the spiritual and material needs of people. The (perverse) idea of the global: A global corporation oriented on a set of principles for profit maximization for the few.
In their joint cycle europa, GLOBAL give the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Klangforum a special concert in honor of an important and indispensable member of the community: GREECE.
Program
Iannis Xenakis – Khoai
George Aperghis – Le corps à corps
Michalis Lapidakis – HOWL
Panayiotis Kokoras – Crama
Dimitris Papageorgiou – In the Vestige of the Present
19 Tuesday Feb 2013
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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
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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.
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
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Ensemble Interface, one of the most gifted European young ensembles for new music, performs “In Pulses, in Strokes…” for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion.
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.
30 Friday Nov 2012
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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.
24 Tuesday Jul 2012
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Program:
Christian Winther Christensen: Nachtmusik ohne eine aufdringliche Nachtstimmung (2010/11)
Dissonart Ensemble (Greece): Jiannis Anissegos – flute, Alexandros Stavridis – bass clarinet, Lenio Liatsou – piano, Theo Patsalidis – violin, Maria Anissegou – cello.
