An evening in the musical Pantheon of Heinz Holliger, leading a group of young musicians from the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra.  The conductor and composer gives free rein to his taste for polyphonic works such as that of Carter or prototypes like Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert, a work that has become a classic of the 20th century.

Heinz Holliger © Daniel Vass

The finale of ManiFeste-2013 belongs to the new a cappella quartet, in an act of recognition by Holliger who has set 10 mystical epigrams by Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) to music. The constant invention of breath and writing for voice is like a mirror for Silesius’s thoughts.

• Vittorio Montalti Tentative d’épuisement, Cursus 2 premiere
• Elliott Carter Mosaic
• Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts nicht Nichts*, Puneigä, French premieres
• György Ligeti Kammerkonzert

Anu Komsi soprano
Luigi Gaggero cymbalum
EXAUDI*
Ensemble du Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Conductors Heinz Holliger, James Weeks
IRCAM Computer Music Design Vittorio Montalti
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisor  Mikhail Malt

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production in partnership with the Lucerne Festival Academy. With the support of the Sacem (scholarships for young Cursus 2 composers) and Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture.

Ten years later, in 2004, Sul Segno for plucked strings and electronics, marks the epitome of sonorous refinement, a resonating world revealed through computer analysis of instrumental sounds and the trajectory of their attack.

• Yan Maresz Sul Segno, Metallics
• Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom Quatre pantomimes pour six, premiere
• Diana Soh Arboretum: of myths and trees, premiere Cursus 2

Jean Deroyer © Jean Radel

Élise Chauvin soprano
Ensemble Court-circuit
Conductor Jean Deroyer
IRCAM Computer Music Design Manuel Poletti, Diana Soh
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisor Grégoire Lorieux

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Court-circuit coproduction. With the support of the Sacem (scholarships for Cursus 2 composers).

Simultaneously bereavement, anarchy, and celebration, Ludus de Morte Regis is the memory of three anarchists who tried to assassinate the king Umberto 1 at the end of the 19th century. The rebellion of the anarchist Passannante against the king and the state of nature, the insanity of an impossible act, the lunacy of Nietzsche, the crucified signs a letter addressed to Umberto. A great number of extreme and burlesque movements can be found in this work that is a “state of exception”.

• Heera Kim Things We Said Today, premiere Cursus 2
• Mauro Lanza Ludus de Morte Regis, commissioned by Les Cris de Paris as a part of “Identité et Environnement Sonore”, premiere
• Jean-Luc Hervé Germination*, commissioned by the French government, premiere

Conductor Jean Deroyer, Geoffroy Jourdain
IRCAM Computer Music Design Gilbert Nouno, Manuel Poletti, Heera Kim, Serge Lemouton*
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisors Éric Daubresse
Landscape Artist, stage design consultant Astrid Verspieren*

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, L’Itinéraire, and Les Cris de Paris coproduction. With the support of the Sacem (scholarships for Cursus 2 composers). In collaboration with the École Du Breuil, school of landscape art and techniques, establishment managed by the City of Paris*.

6:30pm, IRCAM, Igor-Stravinsky Room

Screening of the film “Images of a work n°16: Germination, by Jean-Luc Hervé”, written and produced by Philippe Langlois and Christian Bahier. Free entry upon presentation of a ticket for the evening’s concert.

© Astrid Verspieren

An operatic air breezes through this concert conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, present until the third symphony by Lutoslawski, a vehement and dramatic masterpiece completed in 1983 after years of preparation. Philippe Schœller chose the typically romantic formation of the Lied with Orchestra (e.g. Mahler, Strauss) for a work that promises to be like a futuristic opera, La légende d’Esstal. The orchestral composition of these lieder uses the writing for electronic instruments of Operspective Hölderlin, also dedicated to the soloist Barbara Hannigan.

The work by Carmine Emanuele Cella – researcher, mathematician, composer, and winner of the 2012 ManiFeste academy – is the intimate connection between electronics and orchestra. Using the allegory of Plato’s cave, he places two worlds together; the first is instrumental, representing the imperfect shadow of the second, a pure idea of electronic sound.

• Carmine Emanuele Cella (ManiFeste-2012 academy winner) Reflets de l’ombre, commissioned by IRCAM and Radio France, premiere
• Philippe Schœller Trois grands lieder, commissioned by Radio France, premiere
• Witold Lutoslawski Symphonie n° 3
• Henri Dutilleux Métaboles

Barbara Hannigan © Elmer de Haas

Distribution

Barbara Hannigan soprano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
IRCAM Computer Music Design Carlo Laurenzi

A Radio France, Ircam-Centre Pompidou coproduction. With the support of the Sacem. Concert broadcast live on France Musique.

Vittorio Montalti © Claude Pavy

He was awarded the Silver Lion in 2010 during the Venice Biennale – 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music. Montalti also won several composition competitions such as “Concorso internazionale del Conservatorio di Milano”, “Galleria d’arte moderna di Milano”, “E. Carella”, “Vieri Tosatti” and was selected for the San Fedele Young Artists Prize 2010-2013. In 2009 he was selected for the Aleph Ensemble 6th International Forum for Young Composers.

He has received commissions from La biennale di Venezia, Divertimento Ensemble, Bergamo Musica Festival, Ex Novo Ensemble/SaMPL, Festival Pontino, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele and RomaTreOrchestra.

His works have been performed at various festivals as La Biennale di Venezia, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou,   Gran Teatro La Fenice-Sale Apollinee, Festival Pontino, Festival Milano Musica, Festival MITO, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Bergamo Musica Festival, Rondò, Conservatoire National Superior de Musique et Danse de Paris, Auditorium San Fedele, Dunois Theater, Festival Slowind, Maison de la Télévision de Strasbourg,  Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, L’Imaginaire (Institut Culturel Italien de Strasbourg), Italian Culture Institute of Melbourne and Sidney (CEMAT- Progetto Sonora), etc. and has been broadcast by RadioTre and Radio Vaticana.

In this years he has had the possibility to work with many ensembles as Ensemble Multilatérale, Divertimento Ensemble, Texture Ensemble, Aleph Ensemble, Quartetto Prometeo, Dèdalo Ensemble, etc. and soloist as Irvine Arditti, Giovanni Sollima, Annamaria Morini, Enzo Porta, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Francesco Dillon, Dario Savron, Laura Catrani,  Daniele Ruggieri, Emanuele Torquati, Francesco Gesualdi, Luigi Attademo, Matteo Cesari, Franco Venturini, Ljuba Bergamelli etc.

He has also worked with orchestras such as Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto (cond. André de Ridder), Orchestra dell’Università degli Studi di Milano (cond. David Handel) and RomaTreOrchestra (cond. Dario Garegnani).

Diana Soh (b. 1984) is a young Singaporean composer who lives in Paris, attends the IRCAM Cursus 1 program, and is a Composer-in-Residence in a collaborative project by he Conservatoire D’Ivry sur Seine, La Muse en Circuit, l’ADIAM94, l’ARIAM and the ensembles Quatuor Parisii and Concert Impromptu.

She is currently working towards her PhD at the University at Buffalo under the tutelage of David Felder. Her music has been performed in venues such as Royaumont, Acanthes, Donaueschinger Musiktager, June in Buffalo, and the Gaudeamus Muziek Week.

She has worked with James Avery, Magnus Andersson, NEO Norbotten, Tony Arnold, NYNME, the Arditti Quartet, CIKADA, and the Ensemble Mosaik. Upcoming projects include a re-staging of her opera The Boy Who Lived Down The Lane this October by Size Zero Opera in the United Kingdom.

Heera Kim © Astrid Ackerman

She has participated workshops among others Young Composer Meeting 2006 in Apeldoorn, Holland, Acanthes Metz 2009 and Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2006, 2010.

She was winner of Forum Ost&West Composition Prize (2001), Composition Competition of Ensemble for new music Zurich (2007), Walter Witte Prize (2007), BMW Composition Prize of  Musica Viva (2007), Günter Bialas Composition Competition (2008) and Berliner Opernpreis (2010). 

2008 she was recipient of “Stipendium des Freundeskreises Karlsruhe”, 2009 UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Artists and 2011/2012 Young Art Frontier Grant, Arts Council Korea.

2008-2010 Artist in Residence in Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska USA, Gedok-Atelierhaus Lübeck, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Grimma Germany, Visby Centre for Composer in Gotland Sweden, Villa Sträuli in Winterthur Switzerland, Atelier Rondo Graz Austria and Schreyahn Künstlerhaus Germany.

Her works have been performed by groups such as the Ensemble for new music Zurich, Ensemble Eriprij Apeldoorn, Ensemble Oktopus Munich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lorraine.

May 2010 her first opera Der Unfall was premiered by Neuköllner Oper Berlin and October 2010 Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra played new ensemble piece (conducted by Pascal Rophé).

Currently she is in residence at the Cité internationale des Arts Paris and is attending the Cursus 1 in composition and music technologies at IRCAM.

As a composer, he won many prizes and awards, including the prestigious Petrassi prize for composition awarded by the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano in 2008. Cella has also performed as a pianist with jazz groups and with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Mariella Devia.

Carmine Emanuele Cella

From 2007 to 2009, Cella worked at IRCAM in the Analysis/Synthesis team where he worked on audio indexing. Today, he is a composer-in-residence in the institute.

Carmine Emanuele Cella has taught harmony, musical composition, computer music, and mathematical logic in several universities and conservatories. He currently teaches computer music in conservatories in Rome and Vicenza.