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Japanese-born French composer
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2023-10-18 08:36:00
Leo Geyer, artistic director of Constella Music Leo Geyer's Constella Music is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an event at Sadler's Wells Theatre on Monday 27 November 2023. The interdisciplinary music company, formally known as Constella OperaBallet, celebrates a decade of daring and visually striking work. The company's new name, Constella Music, reflects its ever-growing repertoire encompassing the broad creative endeavours of its artistic director, composer and conductor Leo Geyer.The celebration at Sadler's Wells features world premieres including London Portraits, Leo Geyer's opera-ballet, choreographed by Taira Foo, which fuses jazz and street dance. Geyer’s Water Boatman for double-bass and loop pedal, commissioned by the Musician’s Company, will have its first public performance, having been featured on the BBC, and will be performed by Toby Hughes. The Constella Orchestra will perform excerpts from a new opera-ballet, the Orchestras of Auschwitz - featuring music written in concentration camps - will also be performed for the […]
All the conducting master class
2022-03-07 10:58:00
Nodoka Okisawa is the first scholarship holder(Photo: Taira Nishimaki) The Siemens Arts Program has been awarding a scholarship to a conductor as part of the Karajan Academy’s training programme since September 2020. In addition to the standard two-year academy training, it enables students to assist the chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko. Conducting […]
2020-06-27 23:00:00
Les Percussions de Strasbourg – 50th Anniversary Edition
[…] Cycle. Manoury: Le Livre des ClaviersCD3 Haubenstock-Ramati: Jeux 6. Boucourechliev: Archipel 3CD4 Varese: Ionisation. Chavez: Tambuco, Toccata. Cage: First construction (in metal). Campion: Ondoyant et DiversCD5 Stibilj: Epervier de ta faiblesse, Domine. Silvestrov: Mystères. Denisov: Nuages Noires, Apparitions et disparitions, Rayons des étoiles lointaines dans l'espace courbé. Kabelac: Huit InventionsCD6 Serocki: Continuum. Aperghis: Kryptogramma. Xenakis: PersephassaCD7 Schat: Signalement. Puig: Provisoires agglomérats. Denisov: Concerto PiccoloCD8 Scherchen: Shen. Shinohara: Alternances. Ohana: Quatre etudes chorégraphiques. Louvier: Candrakâla, Shima. Taira: Hiérophonie VCD9 Dufourt: Erewhon, Sombre journéeCD10 Monnet: BibiloloCD11 Jarrell: Incipit. Mache: Vectigal Libens. Lauba: Kupang. Romitelli: Chorus Leroux: Rheumics. Monnet: Mort et transfiguration pour 40 balais. Singier: Salmigondis. Pesson: Gigue. Levinas: Tic, Tac... Matalon: Caramba(les). Hurel: Ecart en temps. Drout: La FuiteCD12 Grisey: Le Noir de l'EtoileCD13 Pampin: On space.. Matalon: Le ScorpionCD14 Mache: Maraé, Aera, Khnoum, Le printemps du serpentCD15 Racot: Subgestuel Levinas: Voûtes D'Adamo: Die Runde Zahl. Paris: Les Arpenteurs (extraits)
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2014-09-19 18:32:05
There was a spectacular concert by the eight flautist members of the jury yesterday evening - pure joyful music making by eight star players totally endowed with enthusiasm and joy, as well as skills of the highest order. Flute playing members of my readership may particularly appreciate this for the repertoire for this kind of concert is full of riches largely unknown by the general music loving public. We began with a delicious Trio Sonata in C major by CPE Bach - played by András Adorján and Rune Most, with the excellent Leif Greibe at the piano, as he was all evening when required. This was followed by the star trio of Patrick Gallois, Robert Langevin and Raffaele Trevisiani with Kuhlau's Op 13 no 2 for three flutes. The amazing duo of Danish flautists Thomas Jensen and Toke Lund Christiansen then gave us a suite from Carl Nielsen's Aladdin music […]
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