UMAS and AUNS Students’ Saxophone Concert
07.05/ 20.30h / UMAS and AUNS Students’ Saxophone Concert @ &TD semicircular hall...
UMAS and AUNS Students’ Saxophone Concert
07.05/ 20.30h / UMAS and AUNS Students’ Saxophone Concert @ &TD semicircular hall (50′)
Students’ concert: Academy of Arts Novi Sad & Art Academy in Split – Gordan Tudor’s saxophone classes
Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Centre for Contemporary Music within the Academy and the Vojvodina Composers’ Society founded the annual contemporary composition competition Rudolf Bruči, with the aim of fostering and expanding the contemporary repertoire. The initiators of this competition are assistant lecturers at the AUNS: saxophonist and composer, guest assistant lecturer Gordan Tudor together with the composer, assistant lecturer at the AUNS and manager of the Centre for Contemporary Music, Milan Aleksić. Instrument in the focus of the first competition was the saxophone, in three categories: solo saxophone, saxophone and piano, saxophone quartet (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone). It is a national competition and the right to participate was given to all the citizens of the Republic of Serbia, regardless of age. Out of the 20 compositions, the jury (Zoran Erić, Stevan Divjaković, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Smiljana Vlajić and Gordan Tudor) gave out two first prizes, two second prizes and a third prize. The winner of the third prize is Nenad Stefanović (Sonata for baritone saxophone and piano), winning the second prize were Tamara Lazić (E-Rhapsody, for saxophone quartet) and Damjan Jovičin (Morning in park Manjež, for alto saxophone), and the winners of the first prize, that includes a first performance and visit at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound in Zagreb, are Vladimir Korać (Fragments of green, for saxophone quartet) and Đorđe Marković (Three Images for Four Saxophones). Along with encouraging the composers at a national scale, the Competition Rudolf Bruči also promotes the performance of new pieces, but also the international collaboration: apart from the Showroom of Contemporary Sound, the award includes performance at the Liszt Ferenc Academy in Budapest, at a festival of contemporary music in Split and at a concert in Novi Sad. Apart from the two winners of the competition and the initiators of the competition, this year’s Showroom also welcomes saxophone students from the class of Gordan Tudor – members of the young saxophone quartet Quattro Temperamenti, professors Timea Kalmar and Bunford Gabor, as well as the students of the Art Academy in Split and the Music Academy in Ljubljana.
Gordan Tudor’s assistant at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad is Bunford Gabor.
Programme:
François Rossé: Lobuk Constrictor, for alto saxophone (1989)
Erna Čizmić Rebić, 2nd year of studies at UMAS
Đorđe Marković: Three pictures for four saxophones (2014)
*first performance; 1st prize at the Rudolf Bruči Competition
Quattro Temperamenti: Srđan Paunović (soprano saxophone), Nikola Macura (alto saxophone), Lovro Livajić (tenor saxophone), Filip Orlović (baritone saxophone)
Tamara Lazić: E-Rhapsody, for saxophone quartet (2014)
*first performance; 2nd prize at the Rudolf Bruči Competition
Quattro Temperamenti
Edison Denisov: Sonata for alto saxophone and cello, 2nd Movement (1994)
Nereo Arbula, alto saxophone, 2nd year of studies at UMAS and Anthony Havelka, cello, 2nd year of studies at UMAS (class of Mihovil Karuza)
Damjan Jovičin: Morning in park Manjež, for alto saxophone (2014)
*first performance; 2nd prize at the Rudolf Bruči Competition
Srđan Paunović, 4th year of studies at AUNS
Luis Naon: Alto Voltango, for alto saxophone and vibraphone (2001)
Larisa Marjanović, alto saxophone, 5th year, Music Academy in Ljubljana – Erasmus programme UMAS
Petra Vidmar, vibraphone, Music Academy in Ljubljana
Vladimir Korać: Fragments of green, for saxophone quartet (2014)
*first performance; 1st prize at the Rudolf Bruči Competition
Quattro Temperamenti
Ivan Brkljačić: Quattro temperamenti (2011)
Quattro Temperamenti
Links:
sites.google.com/site/konkursbrucci/home
Open Space: chamber vocal ensemble Antiphonus
08.05. /17h / Open Space: chamber vocal ensemble Antiphonus @ French Pavilion (20′)
Antiphonus are: sopranos Monika Cerovčec, Ana Lice, Marta Lončar and Ani Vuletić, altos Martina Borse, Vesna Matana and Vesna Batistić, tenors Ivan Bingula, Siniša Galović, Veton Marevci and Želimir Panić, basses Matija Meić, Leon Košavić, Tomislav Fačini and Alen Ruško, under the artistic guidance of the conductor Tomislav Fačini.
The specific acoustics of the French Pavilion, in the classical sense, is very limiting, unfitted for placing any music programme that requires “normal” concert venue. But, precisely because of its specific qualities, it is very inspiring, interesting and even perfect for the site-specific art projects that take the Pavilion’s acoustics as a starting point of their artwork. Continuing the artistic acoustic experiments from December 2014 as a part of Fair of Culture, the Showroom will open the French Pavilion’s doors in the afternoons for an acoustic exploring through shorter improvisations by the guitarist and electronic musician Miodrag Gladović and the Vocal Ensemble Antiphonus.
The members of Antiphonus interwined after a long period of singing and music-making in various groups. Educated musicians of various profiles, they finally crystallised in a homogeneous group in 2006. Nourishing the sound that aims at a melange between the tradition of a full bodied eastern Eiropen vocal sound and the western balance and purity, they are building a wide-range repertoire, from the plainchant to the recently written, cross-over, or commissioned works. Paying special attention to the Croatian contemporary music, Antiphonus premiered pieces of the Croatian foremost authors, but also gave the first contemporary performances of the newly emerged works from the dusty libraries. As a part of the Open Space (artistic acoustic experimenting) at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound, the Antiphonus ensemble will improvise, thus exploring the options and correlations of human voices at the hyperacoustic space of the French Pavilion.
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (Farszky, Gagic, Gligo, Labos)
06.05. / 23h / Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (Farszky, Gagić, Gligo, Laboš) @ French pavilion (40′)
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (1969)
Kaja Farszky – voice
Bojan Gagić – light
Nikša Gligo – introduction
Višeslav Laboš – recording and reproduction
American composer and composer Alvin Lucier (*1931) is definitely one of the most significant and influential personalities of experimental music. He was the initiator, pioneer on numerous fields of composition, performance and sound installations, including research and the use of brain waves, space acoustics, as well as natural characteristics of sound waves in music pieces. As an explorer of the acoustic phenomenon and sound perception in most of his pieces he explored the physicality of sound, frequencies of space, as well as the sound transmission via physical medium. Together with Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Gordon Mumma, he was a member of the influential group Sound Arts Union, and since the 70s he has been teaching at the Wesleyan University. Several of his works are considered “classics” of the contemporary music and key pieces of experimental music: Music for Solo Performer (1965), Vespers (1968), Music on a long thin wire (1977), as well as I am sitting in a room, the piece Lucier wrote when he started his acoustic research of resonant frequencies and its use in a musical piece, back in 1969. I am sitting in a room is probably his most well known piece, where Lucier records himself reading a text, reproducing it and simultaneously recording it in a specific space. The new recording is then reproduced again while recording the reproduction, repeating the process a certain number of times again. Using the frequencies of the space where he performs the piece, Lucier deconstructs the narrative content of the spoken text, thus creating a musical piece where only a rhythm of the text from the beginning remains recognizable. Because of the specific acoustics of the French Pavilion, with its space frequencies defining and creating the piece, this legendary piece of experimental music is performed at the third Showroom of Contemporary Sound. A short introduction before the performance will be given by the academician Nikša Gligo, who performed the piece in the 70s, as a part of the project 3 Situations x 15’ + 4 dancers of the Chamber ensemble for free dance KASP. Back then, Gligo was the artistic director of the Music Showroom and he closely collaborated with Milana Broš and her KASP Ensemble, and their common project was a partly a programme of the Music Showroom, first performed in December of 1976 at KSET, later performed in other venues. Artist participating in this year’s performance are the light designer and multimedia artist Bojan Gagić, whose artistic answer to Lucier’s compositional process given through the medium of light will also mark the international year of light.
“I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed.
What you will hear, then, is the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech.
I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.”
Papandopulo Quartet
Nikola Fabijanić, sopran0 saxophone
Gordan Tudor, alt0 saxophone
Goran Jurković, tenor saxophone
Tomislav Žužak, baritone saxophone
The outstanding Croatian ensemble Papandopulo Quartet was formed by four distinguished saxophone players that graduated from Dragan Sremec’s class at the Zagreb Music Academy. They continued studying with eminent professors at a number of seminars but also at conservatories in Paris, Amsterdam and Vienna. They performed at renowned festivals and important music events (Music Evenings in St. Donat, Rijeka Summer Evenings, Music Biennale Zagreb, Music Forum in Opatija, Split Summer Festival and Days of New Music Split, Echoraum in Vienna, Days of Croatian Music in Vienna) and held a series of concerts in Budapest, Paris, Zagreb, etc. Special attention is given to promoting new music, especially pieces by the young Croatian and international composers – they gave some memorable first performances of pieces by Mirela Ivičević, Frano Đurović, Matthias Kranebitter, Dubravko Palanović, Tena Ivana Borić et al. New collaborations and commissions by contemporary composers are arising unceasingly, mostly thanks to the efforts and artistic qualities of the four Papandopulo members. Their first CD came out for the Croatia Records and has been the most selling classical music album in the past couple of years, additionally earning five Porin nominations. Members of the quartet are also involved in pedagogical work at the music academies in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo and Novi Sad, in music schools of Zagreb, Split, Jastrebarsko and Samobor and along with that they are mentors teaching at master courses in Croatia and abroad. Together they founded The School of Saxophone in Jaska, a very successful international spring seminar for the saxophone students.
“Stars of the evening were the members of the New Sax Quartet, the ensemble which, with its superb music but also extraordinary dedication, was the best thing that could happen to composers.” Trpimir Matasović, Zarez
“Relaxation and safety performance, tonal accuracy and richness of tone creation, skills in a variety of articulations, fantastic agility and precision in the highest and in the lowest registers, amazing immaculate technique. It is the foundation on which members of Papandopulo Quartet built their musical expressiveness.” Mirta Špoljarić, sbplus.hr
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Papandopulo Quartet
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