If you are interested in the following questions:

“What do audiences value about engaging with contemporary classical music? What are their experiences with the challenges newly composed works can pose? How does this compare to other contemporary arts? And how can it reach a larger, more diverse public?”

make sure to join!

With Gina Emerson and Sarah Price.

Presentation initially scheduled in April 2020, canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic,
now rescheduled as an online presentation on 26th October 2020, 5.30 pm CET.

A video recording of the presentation is available here:

You can download the handbook  « Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts » here.

And find on Gina Emerson’s website a short research report from the Audience Research project implemented within the ULYSSES Network:  Audience Experience of CCM_Emerson_042020.

The concert takes place in the brand new concert hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn (EE).

Concert canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed Program:
New works by Adrien Trybucki (FR), Sina Fallahzadeh (FR) and Ülo Krigul (EE) (ULYSSES Commissions)

New works by Maria Kõrvits (EE), Marianna Liik (EE), Rodrigo Sigal (MX) (EPCC Commissions)

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Conductor Kaspars Putnins
Duration ca. 75 minutes

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On 1st April 2020 they publically present the final results of the Audience Research Project and attend the rerun concerts of the [‘tactus] Young Composers’ Forum and the commissions to young composers for Peter Tscherkassky’s CinemaScope Trilogy.

Meeting canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020,
rescheduled as an online meeting on 26th October 2020.

On 27th March 2020, the musicians present the premieres of impuls composition commissions in the framework of a “Text im Klang” Concert in Graz (AT).

Canceled  – Concert rescheduled on 18th September (information available here).

Detailed program:

Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis Embora – for flute, clarinet, violin, cello (2019, world premiere)

Yulan Yu Z – for flute, clarinet and 2 musicians/tape-recorders (2019, world premiere)

Joan Gómez Alemany  eros-tans-tngi-ugog-celö-esel – for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello (2019, world premiere)

Pedro Berardinelli por em – for flute, clarinet, cello (2019, world premiere)

Text & reading-performance: Thomas Antonic

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Ensemble Schallfeld

Alessandro Baticci flute

Szilárd Benes clarinet

Patrick Skrilecz piano

Lorenzo Derinni violin

Myriam García Fidalgo cello

„Text im Klang” is a laboratory, where medial interlacings with a focal point on impulse are put into practice. Like in former years impuls again commissions new works from young composers, who this time take their initial impulses from the writings and especially from a personal exchange with the author Thomas Antonic. For the first time he, in turn, is commissioned to write and present new texts as reading-performance, partly interwoven in the music, for the premieres. During a first preparation phase, the topic of „disappearance“ has emerged as a common thread,  leading to different positions, interpretations, formal and conceptional developments. Hereby the intention of the project does not pursue a classical setting such as words to music or a simple translation of the words into music, be it with singers or as purely tonal representations of the texts, but is rather meant as cross-fertilization beyond genres and fruitful cooperation within the artists´ group.

Like in former years Ensemble Schallfeld plays an important role as a performer being both included in the process and the realisation of the compositions, thus working in close cooperation with both the author and of course especially the composers.

In cooperation with Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten.

Concert on 27th March 2020
Concert rescheduled for 18th September (information available here).

Followed by an Open Brunch on 28th March at 10am
Canceled – Rescheduled on 19th September (information available here).
(statements by and discussion with the involved author, composers and musicians).

Further details available on impuls’ website.

ZAUM_percussion meets MOMI
Residency dates: 20th – 24th April 2020.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings.

The residency ends with an Open Session on April 23rd 2020 at 6pm.

Residency and Open Session canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

ZAUM_percussion is an ensemble founded in 2018 by three percussionists with an international background, Simone Beneventi, Carlota Cáceres, and Lorenzo Colombo.

Summing up common interests, they come together to create new works for the percussion trio as well as refreshing the most representative repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

ZAUM_percussion is the artist-in-residence at Milano Musica Festival for 2018/2021 and got a residency at Snape Maltings (UK) in April of 2020.

In this context they commissioned new pieces to composers such as Claudio Ambrosini, Marco Momi, they premiered works by Mario Bertoncini, Esaias Jarnegard, and reinterpreted music by Vinko Globokar, Lorenzo Pagliei, Iannis Xenakis. They have performed in Berlin, Forlì, Milano, Modena, Roma, Parma, also in collaboration with ensembles and artists from other disciplines such as Ensemble Prometeo, Zeitkratzer, and Quattrox4 circus company.

Additionally, they are immersed in recordings (for Deutschlandradio and Obsolete Capitalism Collective) as well as developing projects with a pedagogical and participative approach involving groups at risk of social exclusion.

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Do not hesitate to visit their website.

Concert canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Following the premieres in Darmstadt (DE), Utrecht (NL), Graz (AT) and Paris (FR) the Nikel Ensemble from Israel presents Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope Trilogy and the pieces composed the selected young composers as follows:

Simon Loeffler, Dream Work*
Steven Takasugi, Arriveé 1 & 2**
Clara Iannotta, Outer Space*
Mirela Ivicevic, Dream Work***
Julien Malaussena, Outer Space***

*commissioned by IMD (ULYSSES Network)
**commissioned by The Earle Brown Foundation Charitable Trust, Belgian Premiere
***commissioned by impuls (ULYSSES Network)

Further information on Flagey’s website.

Program:
Simone Cardini (IT) “E tocare spazi iridescenti”
Max Charue (BE) “From nomads to nomads”
Daan Geysen (BE) “Two Characters”
Christoph Renhart (AT) “Échos éloquents”

Further information on Flagey’s website

“Complexity has been a value of western culture for quite some time. Music is a multilayered activity and complexity could be found in a lot of different operational levels. The question is: what is actual complexity in music? How can it still be considered as a value?

Writing music is like walking in a fascinating maze with one peculiar feature: the exit always leads to another more intricate maze.”

An Open Session takes place on 16th November at 5 pm allowing to discover the results of his work, where Leonardo shows how he deals with compositional problematics and how he develops simple ideas in order to give birth to a complex and fresh new score.

Leonardo Marino during his presentation
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You can watch the entire video of Leo’s presentation here :

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Leonardo Marino is an Italian composer, based in Milano. His formation comprehends both classical and jazz music experiences. He studied composition in Milano with Alessandro Solbiati and in Genève with Michael Jarrell.

His music has been played and programmed by several ensembles, (Divertimento Ensemble, Mdi Ensemble, Ukho Ensemble, Ensemble Prometeo, Ensemble Contrechamps, IEMA, OSE! Orchestre Symphonique etc.), conductors, (Marco Angius, Luigi Gaggero, Daniel Kawka, Lukas Vis, Filippo Perocco, etc.) and soloists (Melanie Rothman, Dyna Pisarenko, Alfonso Alberti, Mariagrazia Bellocchio, Rachel Koblyakov, Viktor Rekalo, Tim Maas, Micheal Taylor, Laura Catrani, etc.).
His chamber opera APNEA was premieried at the “61esimo Festival di Musica Contemporanea della Biennale di Venezia” in 2017.

He has been chosen as one of the two mentored composers of the Mentoring Programme 2020, promoted by the Péter Eötvös Foundation. He has also been appointed as one of the 15 residents of Operalab.ch (a platform created by the Grand Théâtre de Genève, la Comédie de Genève, and the schools of high specialization of the Suisse Romande) and he will compose a new Opera that will be performed in September 2020 in Geneva.

At the end of each meeting day, the festival offers the opportunity to attend numerous concerts and presentations of ULYSSES activities, such as the “Emerging Talents”-evening including ULYSES Journey Composers and Performers and Remake Oslo.

And so at the 2019 edition of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek this follow-up takes place: a seminar on the challenges and especially the opportunities for composers in this changing cosmopolitan society.

Moderator Jonas Bisquert chairs this seminar in which the dominance of Western European music tradition is examined. In several lectures and with a panel consisting of young makers, organizers, education specialists and musicians, Bisquert guides us through various issues, hot topics and new trends.

There will also be the chance to hear the first sketches and results of the collaboration initiated in the spring of 2019 by Gaudeamus and the Catching Cultures Orchestra, which includes musicians from AZCs (asylum seekers’ centres.)

Saturday 7 September, 14.00 h. at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Further information here.

Moderator Jonas Bisquert and participants at the afterdrink
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