Time –
Venue – Landmark
Video-installation made for the entrance space and its window at Bergen Kunsthall by Maria Øy Lojo.
Artists:
Maria Øy Lojo
Time –
Saturday
23:00
Venue – Landmark
Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble
with
Arnold Dreyblatt
Jörg Hiller
Joachim Schütz
“... there is a subtle magic to these compositions...”
Tom Roberts, Dusted Magazine
A very special event involving Arnold Dreyblatt’s ecstatic sonic excursions. Centering around a live performance at Landmark, sounds from the concert will be dispersed throughout Bergen: vehicles and individuals moving through the city will stream the performance in real-time, simultaneously videoing their trips for live projection back into the performance space itself. This transmission and procession of sound & video further emphasises the emersive experience of Dreyblatt’s music.
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Artists:
Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble
Time –
Friday
20:00
Venue – Klubb Fantoft
Luciano Berio : 'Sequenza III'
Iannis Xenakis : 'Charisma'
Mathias Spahlinger : '128 erfühllte Augenblicke'
Laurence Crane : 'Riis'
Louis Andriessen : 'Workers Union'
“Fantastically played by Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa”
Politiken
asamisimasa play contemporary music; rough, political and emotionally committed. Formed in 2001, the ensemble has premiered more than 50 works and had numerous concert and radio broadcasts across Europe and in Mongolia. Festival appearances include Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Ultima, Stockhom New Music, 2 Days and 2 Nights, Ultraschall and Borealis.
Janne Berglund, voice
Rolf Borch, clarinet
Tanja Orning, cello
Ellen Ugelvik, keyboard
Workers Union will be performed with students from Langhaugen videregående skole.
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Zuriñe Gerenabarrena : 'BihotzBi'
'BihotzBi' –Basque for ‘two hearts’– is a short electronic piece focusing on vocalisations ranging from mutterings to wails, all presented in an ethereal sound-environment of delicate precision. The work will be performed immediately after the asamisimasa concert.
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Time –
Thursday
19.30
Venue – Grieghallen
A concert presenting music of voyage and exploration: A blusterous sea journey from Riga to London in 1839 was the inspiration for Wagner’s opera from which the eponymous overture is taken. Similarly dramatic, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Pathétique was his last venture into symphonic form, being premiered nine days before his death in 1893.
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Rolf Wallin: Das war Schön!, for solo percussion and orchestra
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Conductor: Andrew Litton
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Time –
Wednesday
21:00
Venue – Håkonshallen
De Natura Sonorum is a classic in the electroacoustic repertoire. As its title suggests, it is a sort of observation of the nature of sound. Parmegiani sets out to ‘write’ sounds as one writes words with ink. The manner of bringing them together, contrasting them, passing from one state of acoustic matter to another, opposing or combining natural, electronic or instrumental sounds, opens our ears to the different natures of sound.
Thierry Besche from GMEA in Albi, France will perform over an array of speakers precisely placed around the auditorium.
De Natura Sonorum has 12 movements:
1. Incidents/Resonances
2. Accidentals/Harmonics
3. Geological sonority
4. Dynamics of resonance
5. Elastic study
6. Timbre conjugations
7. Incidences/Pulsations
8. Ephemeral nature
9. Induced matter
10. Intermixed wavelengths
11. Full and free
12. Points versus fields
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Artists:
Bernard Parmegiani
Thierry Besche
Time –
Wednesday
17:00
Venue – Odda – Smelt, smelteverket
Inger Bråtveit has been co-editor of the influential literary magazine Vagant and is now working as a translator for The Norwegian Bible Society’s project Bible 2010, a complete revision of the Nynorsk and Bokmål translations of the Bible. Since 2007, Bråtveit has been working with the Swedish poet Cecilia Hansson on Love Project, a dialogical-poetical examination of love and sexuality. Her first novel, Mouth Against a Frozen Fjord, won the Nynorsk literary award in 2003. Her second novel, Siss and Unn, was nominated for the Critics' Prize 2008.
Artists:
Inger Bråtveit
Time –
Friday
17:00
Venue – Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Throughout the festival there will be readings on the festival artists and theme by skrivekunstakademiet students:
Hild Borchgrevink
Kristoffer Mikkelson Miracco
Kenneth Moe
Kirstine Reffstrup
Skjalg Wie Skare
Jakob Skjelbred
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Artists:
Skrivekunstakademiet
Time –
Wednesday
19:00
Venue – Håkonshallen
BIT20 Ensemble
Conductor : Pierre-André Valade
Video Projection and Performance: David Pirrò - IEM Graz
Sound Design: Peter Plessas - IEM Graz
Part One:
Pierre Jodlowski : 'Respire'
Respire is the first of the cycle Breathes/Eats/Sleeps, a collection of audiovisual compositions which examines the place of the body in our world; a body that has become socially constrained by its rituals, prerequisite forms and norms. Our Western homogeneous society is transfixed by the cult of a perfect healthy body without illness or porosity.
Respire is commissioned by Integra, an international project supported by the Culture programme of the European Commission.
Part Two:
A series of world premieres by emerging composers in Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe written specially for BIT20 Ensemble.
Harald Sæther : 'Palimpsest'
Arnt Håkon Ånesen : 'Kegilaan'
Bjørn Erik Haugen : 'Dance'
Stine Sørlie : 'Colonnade'
Amund Vedal : 'Listening Cues'
Hugo Harmens : 'Zackuijyinqx'
Karstein Djupdal : 'Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream'
Øyvind Mæland : 'Fish glinsande avgarde'
BIT20 Ensemble was founded in Bergen, Norway in 1989. Consisting of 15 musicians, the ensemble is regarded as one of the foremost Nordic contemporary music ensembles.
The concert is produced by BIT20 Ensemble, IEM and Ny Musikks komponistgruppe in collaboration with Borealis.
'Respire' is commissioned by Integra, an international project supported by the Culture programme of the European Commission. Integra is developing a new software environment to make music with live electronics, modernising works that use old technology, commissioning composers and overseeing an exciting programme of performances. BIT20 Ensemble and IEM are partners in Integra. The concert is produced by BIT20 Ensemble in collaboration with Borealis. Supported by Integra.
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Time –
Tuesday
21:00
Venue – Håkonshallen
Habbestad, Baltazar & Maumus : Unruhige Räume - Hörspiel for historic building, audience, speakers, microphones and three electroacoustic performers.
This piece is the result of a two-year long collaborative creative process, starting from improvisation and working towards a live electroacoustic multi-channel composition, now settled safely within the sonic and historical context of Håkonshallen.
Unruhige Räume is a commission from BEK and GMEA with kind support from the Borealis festival, French Government and Norwegian Arts Council.
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Time –
18:00
Bjørnar Habbestad, Pascal Baltazar and Benjamin Maumus present questions and problems in and around their two year-long artistic research. Unruhige Räume is a work that investigates the transitions between musical gesture, room acoustics and electroacoustic techniques. Participants are invited into the work process, to share experiences involving these questions and discuss them with the artists, just before they pack them up. Unruhige Räume will be premiered on 22. March in Hakonshallen.
Time –
Saturday
09:00 / 11:00 & 20:30
Venue – Rom 8
What happens to a musician’s brain when under duress? For this event, Le Jury will improvise non-stop for 12 hours, during which the activity of their brains will be monitored by researchers from Bergen University. This data will be displayed to the public, as well as being used by electronic media artist Trond Lossius to create a live visual display.
11:00 - Breakfast Party
Come and support the artists and join Borealis for breakfast at Rom 8.
Coffee and croissants will be served.
20:30 - Closing Party
Celebrate the completion of the 12-hour event at Rom 8.
Wine will be served.
The concert is arranged in cooperation with AVGARDE, the organization of new music in Bergen. Avgarde's aim is to create an active, continuous arena for contemporary music in Bergen, for both composers, musicians and the audience.
More information: www.avgarde.no.
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Artists:
Trond Lossius
Le Jury
Time –
Saturday
20:30
Venue – Rom 8
Come celebrate the completion of this 12-hour event at Rom 8.
Wine will be served.
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Artists:
Trond Lossius
Le Jury
Time –
Friday
13:00
Venue – Landmark
Borealis’ Big Trip Into Inner and Outer Space
(English, Norwegian and Japanese language, English subtitles, approximately 1 hour 30 minutes)
The theme of this year's Borealis festival is 'Tripping', and as such, we embark on a journey through several psychedelic and surreal worlds. This programme, which consists of everything from English children's TV shows to Shūji Terayama’s experimental Japanese cinema, attempts to piece together a shared vision across time, space and genres.
Jelly and custard will be served at this event.
Note: Even though this programme includes several kids shows, it is not for those under 15.
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Time –
Friday
11:30 14:00 & 14:30 (depending on boat arrival time)
Venue – Kantinen i Hurtigruteterminalen
11:30 - Brainer Presents... Do It Again and Drill Mi
Brainer dishes up a two-course light lunch featuring a seasoned entree and à la carte main course. In Do It Again - a first venture into collective composition – three undernourished performers sing for their supper. Drill Mi is a saucy serving of gymnastic endurance in homage to Kodaly, cooked up especially for Borealis.
14:00 & 14:30 - Brainer Finger Disco – Nautical but Noise
Brainer Finger Disco drops anchor in Bergen to present Nautical but Noise – a multimedia installation featuring computer finger-tracking via colour recognition for sound and video manipulation. Regular voyages throughout the day.
With support from Sound and Music’s British Council Bursaries to Composers Scheme.
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Artists:
Brainer
Time –
Wednesday
17:30
Venue – Odda – Kremarvegen 4 (A.Grete og M.Eikeland -"JA til UNESCO"- huset)
Do it Again – Devised work for three performers and table
Do it Again was a first venture into collective composition for Brainer, a London-based composers’ collective. Instead of individually producing scores to be rehearsed and added to repertoire, they each brought a single idea to the table - a sound, a gesture, a movement - from which they co-devised a single performance. Please do not applaud until it is over.
With support from Sound and Music’s British Council Bursaries to Composers Scheme.
Artists:
Brainer
Time –
Tuesday
17:00
Venue – Lydgalleriet
Christian Blom’s installation takes its name from Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī. This name has been used as the word-algorithm –the formula or numerical basis– from which the mechanical actions of Blom’s orchestra of bells, strings and horns originate. Using signals sent from a computer using this algorithm, small motors manipulate the mechanized orchestra in real-time, the composer acting as facilitator of a process in perpetual mutation.
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Artists:
Christian Blom
Time –
Friday
12:00
Venue – BEK
Pierre Bastien informally demonstrates his idiosyncratic hand-crafted instruments - an excellent opportunity to ask questions and see his machines close-up!
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Time –
Tuesday
16:00
Venue – Åsane Storsenter
'Schreibzeit III' (2011)
‘Schreibzeit’ was a term found when researching work by German artist Hanne Darboven (1941 - 2009), literally meaning ‘writing-time’, but also previously translated as ‘time of writing’ and ‘the time of writing’.
The work on Schreibzeit is an exposition of multiple writings, but also with subsequent recitation using voice-synthesis computer software.
Åsane Storsenter & Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek will host the two realizations of this event during Borealis.
Tuesday - Åsane Storsenter
Thursday - Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
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Artists:
Johnny Herbert
Time –
Saturday
16:00
Venue – Bergen Kjøtt
Fausto Romitelli : 'Professor Bad Trip Lesson 1'
Fausto Romitelli : 'Professor Bad Trip Lesson 3'
Franck Bedrossian : 'It'
Jérôme Combier : 'Gone'
Ensemble Cairn in Paris by composer Jérôme Combier thirteen years ago. The name Cairn is derived from the small heaps of stones which act as landmarks for hikers along mountain trails, each walker passing by expected to add a stone. This has been Ensemble Cairn’s ambition: to create an ensemble in which everyone is actively involved in organising concerts as well as in constructing musical programmes.
The concert will include a reading by Tor Åge Bringsværd from his new novel 'SLIPP HÅNDTAKET NÅR DU VRIR'. Awarded a Arts Council of Norway Honorary Award in 2010, Bringsværd is an eminent Norwegian author & playwright, widely regarded as the first Norwegian to write science fiction literature.
'Gone' was produced by IRCAM and commissioned by the French Government
Cairn is supported in its projects by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d’Île-de-France and the Sacem.
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Time –
Wednesday
19:00
Venue – Odda – Smelt, smelteverket
Ensemble Fanfaronner was founded in 2004. Consisting of Charlotte Lund Sager, Ingvild Storhaug and Marita Vårdal Igelkjøn, they perform classical music, opera, cabaret, new music and anything else they are drawn to. The name ‘Fanfaronner’ was selected at random from a French dictionary, it means ‘bluster’; to be loud and noisy like the wind, or ‘brag’; to use boastful language.
Their project – ‘MMMnamenam’ – aims to bring together food, new music and theatre. Having been performed at the Avgarde concert series in Bergen, at the Åmot gardsopera og kulturscene in Sunnfjord, as well as in the Bidrobon concert series in Oslo, it will be performed for the first time in its entirety at the Borealis Festival.
Aperitif: Therese Birkelund Ulvo
Entrée: Arnt Håkon Aanesen : 'The Soup is cold, the chicken is running!'
Main Course: Klaus Sandvik : 'Praise the Lord of taste'
Cheese: Lene Grenager : 'Say Cheese!'
Dessert: Improvisation
Coffee: Helge Sunde
Clean Up: Alwynne Pritchard : 'Oslo Emmaus'
Time –
Thursday
13:00
Venue – Landmark
'A Trip to the Moon' (1902) : George Meliés
(Silent, English titles, 8 minutes)
George Meliés' 1902 classic 'A Trip to the Moon' has everything anyone wants in a film about ‘tripping’: huge cannons shooting rockets to the moon, live actors interacting with animation and some of the best fantasy production design in film history.
'Ciao, Una Volta Mamma' (1975) : Valerio Casciarri
(Italian, English subtitles, 75 minutes)
A journey to the depths of homosexual existential angst in 1970s Italy.
Screening of short films made specially for Borealis by students at Laksevåg videregående skole.
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Time –
Wednesday
13:00
Venue – Landmark
How to Operate Your Brain (1994) Dirs. Joey Cavella & Chris Graves.
(English language, no subtitles, 29 minutes)
Psychologist and writer Timothy Leary is a notorious and infamous figure in pop culture history. How to Operate Your Brain is a lecture on some of his ideas accompanied by pulse-pounding music and incessantly hypnotic visuals.
Le Palais Idéal (1958) Dir. Adonis Kyrou
(French language, no subtitles, 13 minutes)
In south-east France lies one of the strangest buildings in all of Europe. This palace – named ‘The Ideal Palace’ – was built between 1879 and 1912 by one man: postman Ferdinand Cheval. This short documentary is a study of his life's work accompanied by rambunctious fifties jazz.
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) Dirs. Maya Deren, Cherel Ito & Teiji Ito.
(English language & subtitles, 52 minutes)
Important experimental film figure Maya Deren was interested in the relationships between film, dance and perception. Her last work, Divine Horsemen, takes a fascinating look at religious practices in Haiti.
Screening of short films made specially for Borealis by students at Laksevåg videregående skole.
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Time –
Tuesday
13:00
Venue – Landmark
I, the Worst of All (1990) Dir. María Luisa Bemberg.
(Spanish language, English subtitles, 107 minutes)
In conjunction with the Borealis Festival’s opening evening concert at Håkonshallen, our cinema programme begins with a feature film about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, portraying her struggle against the institutionalised misogyny of the seventeenth-century Catholic Church.
Screening of short films made specially for Borealis by students at Laksevåg videregående skole.
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Time –
Wednesday
20:00
Venue – Det Akademiske Kvarteret
Winnebago Man (2009) Dir. Ben Steinbauer
(English language, no subtitles, 85 minutes)
Critically acclaimed documentary following internet legend Jack Rebney, star of some of the most popular viral clips on the internet. Unknown apart from his internet stardom, Rebney’s story is an exploration of a phenomenon unique to this age.
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Time –
Tuesday
20:00
Venue – Håkonshallen
Nils Henrik Asheim : 'Venezia'
Steve Reich : 'New York Counterpoint' (specially orchestrated for this concert)
In celebration of Steve Reich’s 75th birthday, FMKV will perform 'New York Counterpoint', a classic piece by this highly influential 20th century composer specially-arranged for FMKV and this concert. The arrangement is by Peter Szilvay, joint recipient of the Norwegian Scoeity of Composers’ Conductor Award 2010.
The Norwegian Navy Band, Bergen, is one of Norway’s full-time professional military bands, comprising twenty-eight musicians of the highest professional standard, who together form a dynamic and hugely versatile ensemble. Having been recently transformed from the Army to the Navy, the band is committed to entering this new era, bringing out the very best in tradition and innovation.
Harald V. Hove welcome speech before this concert.
'Venezia' was commissioned by The Norwegian Navy Band, Bergen (Forsvarets Musikkorps Vestlandet - FMKV) with support from Arts Council Norway (Norsk Kulturråd).
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Time –
Tuesday
18:00
Venue – Rom 8
The opening of a festival-long exhibition of psychedelic ephemera taking place at Rom 8, Vaskerelven, Strawberry Butterflies and Peppermint Cats will contain graphics selected from 1960s underground magazines, concert posters and album covers. These printed wall-images and video projections will be interspersed with more recent artwork made in the spirit of psychedelia.
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Artists:
Jeremy Welsh
Time –
18:30 & 20:00
Venue – Landmark
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video art. Her experimental practice in the 1960s and 1970s has had a considerable influence on the development of these art forms. The Reading Dante series began in 2007, each new version incorporating elements from the preceding ones. Jonas reinterprets the journey of the soul through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven – following Dante Alighieri’s epic The Divine Comedy.
The exhibition opening is preceded by a talk given by Jonas - a rare chance to hear this influential artist present her work.
The exhibition has been produced by Bergen Kunsthall in collaboration with Borealis and runs from 25. February to 27. March.
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Artists:
Joan Jonas
Time –
Saturday
21:30
Venue – Landmark
The work of Kaj Aune is applicable to both contemporary music and visual art. By combining visual and theatrical elements with sound and music, he creates his own language and method of storytelling. His works are often absurd, tragic and comical, with references to historic and everyday life scenarios. The reuse of already-existing material is also an important element in his work.
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Artists:
Kaj Aune
Time –
Friday
23.00
Venue – Klubb Fantoft
Grammy award-winning Konono N°1's Congotronics album introduced the world to the strange and spectacular electro-traditional sounds concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa, Congo. World music, electronica and avant-rock aficionados have all been equally amazed by this otherworldly music, driving international press to come up with some surprising comparisons, from Can and Krautrock to Jimi Hendrix, Lee Perry and even ‘proto-techno’!
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Artists:
Konono No.1
Time –
Thursday
18:00
Venue – Hotel Terminus - Brasserie
Kristin Mulders – mezzo-soprano
Knut Christian Jansson – piano
American music from the twentieth-century.
Charles Ives:
'Romanzo (di Central Park)'
'The New River'
'Songs my mother taught me'
John Cage:
'Perpetual tango' (from 'Tangos Insólios')
Samuel Barber (from Hermit Songs op.29):
'The Crucifixion'
'The Heavenly Banquet'
Ballade, op.46: Restless - Allegro con fuoco - Restless, as before
William Bolcom (From Cabaret Songs vol.1&2).
'Fur (Murray The Furrier)'
'He Tipped the Waiter'
'Waitin’'
'Song Of Black Max'
'Places To Live'
'Oh Close The Curtain'
'George'
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Time –
Saturday
12.00
Venue – Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Throughout the week, students from Laksevåg videregående skole will interview artists, write reviews, photograph events and create other media around the festival and the 2011 'Tripping' theme.
This material will be on display to the public at the Media Station from March the 26th.
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Artists:
Laksevåg videregående skole
Time –
19:15
Venue – Det Akademiske Kvarteret
Borealis and the Bergen Student Society take a closer look at three different aspects of the concept of ‘tripping’: the psychological, the music therapeutic and the art historical. If you want to learn more about what's going on in your brain when it escapes from reality, join us tonight!
Please note: the discussion will be in Norwegian.
Leif Jonny Mandelid, Chairman of the continuing education in psychosis treatment at Helse Bergen
Lasse Tuastad, PhD candidate in music therapy at the Grieg Academy
Steinar Sekkingstad, Curator at Bergen Kunsthall
Following the round table discussion, Kjetil Møster, Bergen’s resident saxophone powerhouse, gives a free solo performance.
Price - 50 kr. (inclusive of membership - 20 kr. each meeting for the rest of the semester).
20 kr. for members.
Time –
Thursday
22:00
Venue – Landmark
“Bonvalet's physical abandonment (at points close to ecstatic convulsions) is religious in its intensity.”
Dann Chinn, Evophonic
Ten short terse compositions written and performed by Thomas Bonvalet, whose solo project, L’Ocelle Mare features him performing on six-string banjo, harmonicas, harmonica reeds (beaten & blowed), mouth organ, tuning forks, plectrum of dried poppy, microphone, feet tapping and metronome.
This evening’s concerts are presented in collaboration with Utmark, Bergen Kunsthall’s own concert series at Landmark.
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Artists:
Thomas Bonvalet
Time –
Tuesday
19:00
Venue – Håkonshallen
Música Temprana
conducted by: Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel
Las Trampas del Tiempo - including the world premiere of Borealis festival commission by Cecilia Arditto, using texts by the 17th century poet and scholar Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Juan de Araujo (1646, Spain – 1712, Bolivia) : 'Ruiseñor que en blandas armonías'
Anonymous (Bogotá, Colombia) : 'Alto mis gitanas'
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Sebastián Durón (1660, Spain – 1716, France) : 'Duerme Rosa y descansa'
Juan de Araujo : 'Pues mi Rey ha nacido en Belén'
Antonio Durán de la Mota (1672, Bolivia – 1736, Bolivia) : 'Pasitico arroyuelos'
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Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'El Palomo'
Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'El Congo'
Santiago de Murcia (c.1682, Spain – c.1740, Mexico?) : 'Cumbée'
Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'La Lata'
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Anonymous, Spain, 17th c : 'A Flansico repuntiya'
Gaspar Fernandes, (c.1570, Portugal – 1629, Mexico) : 'Eso rigo re repente'
“The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognisability, is the past to be held fast.”
Walter Benjamin, 'On the Concept of History'.
I have always liked the idea of a piece of music as a time machine coming back-and-forth from the larger musical memory of the world. As a spiritual enquiry, other voices from other times echo in the present, bringing music together within the distortion of traveling time. Old music is now presented through new sounds, and in my piece, is also being reflected in old cassette tapes acting like acoustical mirrors, expressing not only the shade of early voices but also the deformation of time itself. Our ears were not there. Even though, paradoxically, those stolen memories are vivid in our hearts, perhaps not in the form of remembrances, but like premonitions from a dispersing past moving forward.
© Cecillia Arditto
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is best known as one of the major Baroque literary figures of Mexico. Her studies in classical and medieval philosophy and fierce assertion of womens rights to scholastic enquiry distinguish her as a philosopher too, and according to Mary Morkovsky, Sor Juana's philosophical poetry (Sueno) indicates a coherent world view and her critique of the Jesuit sermon reveals her mastery of logic.
Concert supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in collaboration with Bergens kammermusikkforening.
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Time –
Wednesday
21:00
Venue – Odda Kino
With screening of short films by:
Marianne Hurum ('Sign Rhymes' and 'My Girl')
Gasspedal Animert: Animator: Kristian Pedersen, Authors: Simen Hagerup / Sigurd Tenningen / Erlend O. Nødtved, Producer: Audun Lindholm
Come and celebrate with us!
Time –
Thursday
24:00
Venue – Landmark
NEW TOOLS FOR A NEW SOUND: Bastien & Sommer Eide’s instruments and machines cannot be found in a music shop. They don't hide in a steel case labeled by a top Japanese brand. The instruments and mechanisms are made personally with a screwdriver and soldering iron in their studios in Bergen and Rotterdam.
“The listeners of our concerts are also viewers and explorers: they travel into the sound; walking inside the composition to discover new shapes of music to come.”
This concert is presented by Borealis in partnership with Hordaland Fylkeskommune.
DJs: Utmark sound system.
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Time –
Thursday
17:30
Venue – Hotel Terminus - Brasserie
This tasting will be followed by a recital of American music given by Kristin Mulders and Knut Christian Jansson.
Entrance: Ticket for wine-tasting & concert : 200 kr
With day pass : 100 kr.
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Time –
Wednesday
20:30
Venue – Odda Kino
Sound Pit, by London-based composer Simon Katan is a ping-pong meets plunderphonics interactive sound installation involving the motion tracking of multiple coloured balls.
With support from Sound and Music’s British Council Bursaries to Composers Scheme.
Artists:
Simon Katan
Time –
Sunday 20. March – 20:00
Venue – Det Akademiske Kvarteret
Griegakademiet Percussion Ensemble
Conducted by: Trond Madsen
The Grieg Academy percussion department kick-starts the 2011 festival with a concert featuring works by Christopher Rouse, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Frank Zappa, as well new pieces written by the students themselves.
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Artists:
Griegakademiet Percussion Ensemble
Time –
Saturday
18:00
Venue – Bergen Kino Konsertpaleet
A small group of musicians led by Sindre Sætre will perform Reich’s iconic 'Clapping Music' at the Bergen Kino Konsertpaleet. A participatory workshop showcasing the key ideas and techniques of the piece, helping to unravel this energetic twentieth-century masterpiece. Everyone welcome to come and take part.
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Artists:
Sindre Sætre
Steve Reich
Time –
Wednesday
17:30
Venue – Odda – Norsk Vasskraft og Industrimuseum
Maja Ratkje : New Work
Christopher Fox : 'Susan's purple'
Morten Feldman : Projection 1
Klaus K. Hübler : Opus Breve
Tanja Orning : Hommage á Anna Eva Bergman
Tanja Orning is a cellist focusing on contemporary music. She is currently playing with groups such as Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, asamisimasa, BOA, Dr.Ox and Polygon as well as her solo-project ‘Cellotronics', resulting in a CD in 2005. Orning is currently undertaking research in contemporary performance practice at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Time –
Thursday
17:30 & 23:00
Venue – Odda – Espeland Dame A/S
Wednesday - Odda
Thursday - Landmark
"A brilliant percussion improvisor- he is capable of a wide range of sounds and qualities, and is always fully present, neither lagging behind nor rushing ahead. His work dances full of thought with an overall easy clarity and earthy groundedness."
Julian Cowley, The Wire
Tatsuya Nakatani, from Osaka, Japan has created a totally unique sound, defying category or genre, utilizing drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls and metal objects.
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Artists:
Tatsuya Nakatani
Time –
Friday
21:30
Venue – Klubb Fantoft
Vanilla Riot move from particle improvisation to electronic eruptions, from softly flickering patterned samples to high intensity shockwaves of improvised noise. Simultaneously, and in interaction with their sound output, they project prepared and live video material onto walls, curtains and improvisers, creating numerous situations of synaesthetic experience.
Please note: warm clothes are advised for this concert.
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Artists:
Vanilla Riot
Borealis 2011 Program Spotify Playlist
Borealis 2011 Spotify Psychedelia
'To perform Latin-American Baroque music requires another practice than that of playing European Baroque. It would otherwise be too forced, too academic. Our repertoire needs a profound knowledge of the rich folk music tradition of Latin America, and a clear insight into the character, temperament, thinking and uniqueness of the continent in general. I play this music just as I play traditional music, with the same natural flow. It is this that I love to share with my audience.'
Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel (1963) grew up in Rosario, the second largest city of Argentina. Already at a young age he developed a preference for folk and early music. After completing a music education in Rosario, he followed a course in choir conducting in Buenos Aires. As a member of the well-known early music ensemble Pro Música, he learned to play various instruments. In 1989 he left for The Netherlands, where he continued his music studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam: first choir conducting and composition with Daniel Reuss and Daan Manneke, then specializing in Early Music with Jos van Veldhoven and Paul van Nevel.
Adrián has devoted much of his time to studying Latin-American Early Music. His continual search for the genesis and sources of this genre has taken him to archives of former missionposts in Bolivia and to old Indian communities, or lead him to scripts made by an 18th century Spanish bishop who noted down the songs from the streets of Trujillo, Peru, for the Spanish home front.
In 1996 Adrián founded ensemble Música Temprana, his ambition being to perform this extraordinary but rarely played repertoire in Dutch and foreign concert halls.
Besides Música Temprana, Adrián is leader of a number of choirs, and is frequently invited as guest conductor by various ensembles and for projects, in The Netherlands as well as abroad, e.g. Japan. Also, he regularly conducts major baroque works such as J.S. Bach's Passions, or operas such as Francesca Caccini's La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall' Isola d'Alcina. He is guest conductor of ensemble Promusica de Rosario, Argentina, and at Rosario's Bach Festival. In 2005 he conducted chamber opera Don Quichote performed by I Piccoli Holandesi, and received favourable reviews for his performance of Thomas Tallis's Motet for 40 Voices, Spem in Alium, at the opening night of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht.
Alwynne Pritchard is a performer, composer and artistic director of the Borealis festival in Bergen. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a PhD from the University of Bristol. Her compositions and performances have been heard across Europe, America and Indonesia and she has worked with leading musicians and ensembles across the globe. Over the past decade, Alwynne has made increasing use of live electronics and music-theatre in her work, also participating as a vocal and physical performer in some of her own pieces. Her music has been described by critics as ’playful, touching and mystical’, (Asane Tidende) ’energetic and provocative’ (The Wire).
Alwynne is involved in many musical constellations, founder of the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY (www.fatbattery.com); vocalist in the trio Myrtle along with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland with Berlin-based hardware electronics instrument builder/improviser Guido Henneböhl in the duo Ding Dong (www.dingdongism.de); with Austrian pianist Judith Unterpertinger as unterPritperTingerchard; and with Thorolf Thuestad and visual artist Claire Zakiewicz in FIG.
From 2001 until 2008 Alwynne taught composition at Trinity College of Music in London and has presented many contemporary music programmes for BBC Radio 3, including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now and Discovering Music.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble
with
Arnold Dreyblatt
Jörg Hiller
Joachim Schütz
Arnold Dreyblatt,(b.New York, 1953) is a media artist and composer who studied composition and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, and Media Studies at the State University at Buffalo/USA. Since 1984 he has lived in Berlin.
Arnold Dryeblatt was voted to lifetime membership of the Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Art) Visual Arts Section, Berlin in 2007. In 2009 he became Professor for Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, Germany.
At borealis:
Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble
Saturday
23:00
Arnt Håkon Aanesen graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2008. He went on to freelance as a composer and has been performed in Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, Greece and Russia, as well as Scandinavia. He is currently working on a violin concerto for the Canadian Mira Benjamin, with funds granted by the Composers' compensation fund. He is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
“Fantastically played by Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa”
Politiken
asamisimasa play contemporary music; rough, political and emotionally committed. Formed in 2001, the ensemble has premiered more than 50 works and had numerous concert and radio broadcasts across Europe and in Mongolia. Festival appearances include Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Ultima, Stockhom New Music, 2 Days and 2 Nights, Ultraschall and Borealis.
asamisimasa members are Janne Berglund (soprano), Rolf Borch (clarinet), Håkon Mørch Stene (percussion), Anders Førisdal (guitar), Ellen Ugelvik (piano) and Tanja Orning (cello).
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra -commonly known as Harmonien- dates back to 1765 and is thus one of the world’s oldest orchestras. Edvard Grieg had a close relationship with the orchestra and was its artistic director during the years 1880-82. The modern orchestra owes much to Harald Heide, who was artistic director from 1908 until 1948, and to Karsten Andersen who held the post from 1964 until 1985. Principal conductors since then have been Aldo Ceccato, Dmitri Kitayenko, Simone Young and, with effect from 2003, the American conductor Andrew Litton, who is now the orchestra’s Music Director. The Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena is engaged as Principal Guest Conductor.
At borealis:
Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
Thursday
19.30
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His career took off with “Violostries”, created in 1964, a 'mixed' piece for violin and tape. Today, the catalogue of his creations extends over 78 works, as well as numerous musical compositions for movies, dance, theatre, radio, television, and so on. He left the GRM in 1992.
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BIT20 Ensemble was founded in Bergen, Norway in 1989. Consisting of 15 musicians, BIT20 is regarded as one of the foremost Nordic contemporary music ensembles. The ensemble has performed at many major international venues for contemporary music, including Festival Agora (IRCAM Centre Pompidou, France), Festival Précences (Radio France), Soundstreams (Canada), Transart (Italy), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, at the Barbican Centre (England) and in Moscow and St Petersburg (Russia). BIT20 has also appeared at major Norwegian festivals – Ultima, Borealis, Ilios and the Bergen International Festival. BIT20 Ensemble is involved in concerts, educational work, radio productions, CD recordings, international tours and modern opera. It has commissioned and premiered nearly 100 works and released 23 albums.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Bjorn Erik Haugen is a visual artist and composer with an MA from the Art Academy in Oslo. He works with composition, sound and video installations of his artistic production, and often combines video and audio. Last year, he has worked with note-based music, often as a transcription of cinematic sound with a conceptual point of departure. His works have been displayed on Mata Festival 2010, ISCM 2009, Henie Onstad in 2008. In 2011 he will participate with a sound installation at the ISCM in Zagreb.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Bjørnar Habbestad (b.1976) performs, improvises and creates music and sound art. Recent activity includes the norwegian premiere of Luigi Nono`s "Das Atmende Klarsein" with the Danish Radio Chamber Choir, a duo project with composer/percussionist Burkhardt Beins, "telart" - a Habbestad&Larsson sound installation for BGO1 at Bergen Kunstmuseum and concerts with ensembles LEMUR, POLYGON and N ENSEMBLE. Habbestad is educated in music, philosophy and art history from Bergen, London and Amsterdam.
Pascal Baltazar, (b.1976) is an intermedia composer, working with sound, light and more, in performances or installations. His artistic concerns address spatial and temporal perception of sound, relation to the body and musical gesture. Therefore he develops his own audio-digital gestural instrument, and also draws interest to intermediality as an extension of his musical statement. He studied electroacoustic composition at the national conservatory of Toulouse, and obtained a masters of philosophy (aesthetics) on music. His works have been commissioned by organizations including the Présences Électroniques (Paris), Radio France festival (Montpellier), Borealis (Bergen, Norway), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, Serbia), Space+Place (Berlin), Synthèse (Bourges, France), reBonds (Albi, France) & Novelum (Toulouse, France)
Benjamin Maumus (b.1981) uses microphones and speakers as creation tools, exploring the prospects offered by sound spatialization and multimicrophonic recording, searching the relations between sound, place and context, for many studio projects or perfoming arts. His diversified activities illustrate his versatile approaches : creation, sound management and design, spatialization, sound research, artistic collaboration,composer assistant, artistic direction, recording and mixing, teaching.
Brainer is a London-based composer's collective, writing and collaborating in a variety of ways - from performance of individually written pieces to co-devising from scratch. They explore a world of sound, gesture, technology and staging to describe hybrid works that are occasionally funny, often odd and always exacting.
Cecilia Arditto (b. 1966) studied music at the Conservatorio Julián Aguirre, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Música Contemporánea (CEAMC) and Conservatory of Amsterdam (cum laude). She took composition lessons in Argentina with Gabriel Valverde and Mariano Etkin in addition to analysis classes with Margarita Fernandez among others. Traveling a lot since then and seeing the world, her music always comes back to her first teachers. Even though having not met them, she considers Luigi Nono, Robert Bresson, and Cesar Aira as influences. It is difficult to see those influences in her language, but it is certainly a powerful influence in the genesis of her music ideas, especially the non-musicians.
Prizes and stipendia: First Composition Prize CCRR-CEAMC 1996, "Buenos Aires No Duerme¨ Prize 1998, Mention Concurso Radio Clásica, Concurso de Composición CEAMC-Arditti String Quartet, Antorchas Scholarship for two consecutive years, Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize, etc. Her music was selected for the "3rd Forum International de Jeunes Compositeurs de l'Ensemble l'Aleph, France, the "Boswil International Composition Seminar", Switzerland and the "Music at the Anthology Festival" in New York for two editions. She was also granted a residential grant at the Camargo residence for artists in France to work in her chamber opera "The daughter of the sorceress..." a project together with visual artist Luciana Arditto. Cecilia was guest composer at the Udk, Berlin in two opportunities, and was granted commissions from the NFPK, Holland, where she has lived since 2002. For the coming year she has been invited to Borealis festival in Norway and Festival Rümlingen in Switzerland.
Cecilia’s music has been performed in Latin-American, USA and Europe, and many of her pieces have been played by different ensembles. She regards having different versions of the same piece as a very interesting process to learn what remains and what changes in the fragile music notation system of which she is a fanatic.
She is also involved in research on music theatre with her own foundation, Stichting planB, a multidisciplinary platform of international artists based on Holland. The foundation view research within the frame of concrete productions as being a complementary aspect of the same movement. They also strongly believe that working in the context of an affinity group brings isolated voices into a more consistent music language.
Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954) was an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international renown. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, many of his works remaining unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an 'American Original'. Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Now a freelance artist in Oslo, Christian Blom (b. 1974) has previously formally studied composition and guitar. He works with sculpture, mechanical devices and the motor control of installations. In parallel, he composes, alternating his approach between programing electronic music and notating concert music. As a member of the artist collective 'Verdensteatret' and with his own projects, Blom's work is regularly heard and seen internationally.
He studied at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Jonathan Harvey. He received a PhD in composition from the University of York in 1984. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the composition staff at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. He is currently Professor in Music at Brunel University, a post he took up in 2006. His music is widely performed, broadcast and recorded. He is also a prolific writer on music. In addition to concert works, Fox has collaborated with artists on gallery works, and with the poet Ian Duhig on a 'musical box'.
At borealis:
Tanja Orning
Wednesday
17:30
Ensemble Cairn in Paris by composer Jérôme Combier thirteen years ago. The name Cairn is derived from the small heaps of stones which act as landmarks for hikers along mountain trails, each walker passing by expected to add a stone. This has been Ensemble Cairn’s ambition: to create an ensemble in which everyone is actively involved in organising concerts as well as in constructing musical programmes.
At borealis:
Ensemble Cairn & Tor Åge Bringsværd
Saturday
16:00
Ensemble Fanfaronner was founded in 2004. Consisting of Charlotte Lund Sager, Ingvild Storhaug and Marita Vårdal Igelkjøn, they perform classical music, opera, cabaret, new music and anything else they are drawn to. The name ‘Fanfaronner’ was selected at random from a French dictionary, it means ‘bluster’; to be loud and noisy like the wind, or ‘brag’; to use boastful language.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
One of the most promising of the young generation of Italian composers, Fausto Romitelli, born in Gorizia in 1963, died prematurely in 2004 after a long illness.
He first studied under Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and later at the Scuola Civica in Milan. Besides Donatoni, his early inspirations were György Ligeti and Giacinto Scelsi, followed by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez and Gérald Grisey. His 1980s output already testified to his interest in sound as, in his own words, a “material to be forged”: Ganimede (1986), for alto, and Kû (1989), for 14 musicians.
In the 1990s, he continued his investigations of sound at Ircam in Paris, and with the musicians of L’Itinéraire—Tristan Murail, Gérald Grisey, Michael Lévinas and Hugues Dufourt. He studied at Ircam’s Cursus de composition and, from 1993 to 1995, collaborated with the Représentations musicales team in the capacity of “compositeur en recherche.” Romitelli’s experiments in sound synthesis and spectral analysis informed his compositions during this period: Sabbia del Tempo (1991), for six performers, and Natura morta con fiamme (1991), for string quartet and electronics.
Anything but a formalist composer, Romitelli did not shy away from hybridization, breaking down the barrier between art music and popular music. Distortion, saturation, psychedelic rock—inspired compositions and “dirty” harmonies were part of his musical universe, evident in Acid Dreams & Spanish Queens (1994), for amplified ensemble, EnTrance (1995), and Cupio Dissolvi (1996). The Professor Bad Trip cycle (I, II and III, 1998—2000), blending distorted colorations of acoustic and electric instruments as well as accessories like the mirliton and harmonica, was inspired by Henri Michaux’s writings under the influence of psychedelic drugs, and recreates a hallucinatory atmosphere.
At borealis:
Ensemble Cairn & Tor Åge Bringsværd
Saturday
16:00
The Norwegian Navy Band, Bergen, is one of Norway’s full-time professional military bands, comprising twenty-eight musicians of the highest professional standard, who together form a dynamic and hugely versatile ensemble. Having been recently transformed from the Army to the Navy, the band is committed to entering this new era, bringing out the very best in tradition and innovation.
After initial studies in orchestration, and analysis at the Regional Conservatory of Paris, Franck Bedrossian studied composition closely with Allain Gaussin. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory (seminars with Gerard Grisey and later Marco Stroppa), where upon graduation he received unanimously the first prize for Analysis, and the first prize in Composition. In 2002–2003 he was in the IRCAM 'cursus' for computer music and composition, taught by Philippe Leroux, Brian Ferneyhough, Tristan Murail, and Philippe Manoury. He also studied with Helmut Lachenmann at Centre Acanthes in 1999 and at the Ensemble Modern Academy in 2004.
Bedrossian's works have been played in Europe and recently in the USA by ensembles such as l' Itineraire, 2e2m, Ictus, Court-Circuit, Cairn, Ensemble Modern, Alternance, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Danel string quartet, the Diotima string quartet. His works have been performed at festivals such as Agora, Resonances, Manca, the RTE Living Music Festival, l’Itinéraire de nuit, Ars Musica, Nuova Consonanza, Le Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo,le Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, Fabbrica Europa, and Wien Modern. In 2001, he received a grant from the Meyer Foundation, and in 2004 won the Hervé-Dugardin prize of Sacem. In 2005 the Institut de France (Académie des Beaux-Arts) awarded him the "Prix Pierre Cardin" for music composition.
Franck Bedrossian has also received the young composer prize from Sacem in 2007. He was a Rome Prize Fellow at the Villa Medicis from April 2006 to April 2008. Since September 2008 he has been Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of California-Berkeley. His works are published by Editions Bilaudot.
At borealis:
Ensemble Cairn & Tor Åge Bringsværd
Saturday
16:00
Gaspar Fernandes (sometimes written Gaspar Fernández, the Spanish version of his name) (1566–1629) was a Portuguese composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua Guatemala) and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (present-day Mexico).
Most scholars agree that the Gaspar Fernandes listed as a singer in the cathedral of Évora, Portugal, is the same person as the Gaspar Fernández who was hired on 16 July, 1599 as organist and organ tuner of the cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala. In 1606, Fernandes was approached by the dignitaries of the cathedral ofPuebla, inviting him to become the successor of his recently deceased friend Pedro Bermúdez as chapel master. He left Santiago de Guatemala on 12 July, 1606, and began his tenure in Puebla on 15 September. He remained there until his death in 1629.
One of his most important achievements for posterity was the compilation and binding in 1602 of various choir books containing Roman Catholic liturgical polyphony, several of which are extant in Guatemala. These manuscripts contain music by Spanish composers Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, and Pedro Bermúdez; the latter was with Fernandes at the time in the cathedral of Guatemala. To complete these books, Fernandes composed a cycle of 8 Benedicamus Domino, the versicle that follows the Magnificat at vespers and certain Masses, one in each of the 8 ecclesiastical tones or modes. He also added his own setting of theMagnificat in the fifth tone, some faux bordon versicles without text, and a vespers hymn for the Feast of the Guardian Angels.
During his Puebla tenure, rather than focusing on the composition of Latin liturgical music, he contributed a sizable amount of vernacular villancicos for matins. This part of his output shows great variety in the handling of texts, which are in Spanish but also in pseudo-African and Amerindian dialects and occasionally Portuguese. One of these villancicos, "Xicochi," is notable for its use of Nahuatl, the language of the indigenous Nahua people.
Conducted by: Trond Madsen
The Grieg Academy composition and percussion departments kick-start the 2011 festival with a concert featuring works by Christopher Rouse, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Frank Zappa, as well new pieces written by the students themselves.
At borealis:
Springboard Borealis
Sunday 20. March – 20:00
Harald Sæther was Born 9 May 1946 at Lønset in Sør- Trøndelag, Norway. He was educated at Veitvet Music Conservatory in Oslo and Trøndelag Music Conservatory in Trondheim, with violin as the main instrument and the Grieg Academy in Bergen, with Composition as the main discipline.
Sæther studied composition with Terje Bjorklund and Henning Sommero in Trondheim, and Svein Hundsnes in Stavanger. He took his Masters degree with Morten Eide Pedersen in Bergen and has attended masterclasses in composition with Georg Friedrich Haas, Mathias Spahlinger, Kaija Saariaho, Ivar Frounberg and Michael Finissy.
Harald Sæther has written music to lyrics by Petter Schramm, Margunn Hageberg, Mona Høvring, Irene Paulsen (all Norwegian), Esther Tellermann (France), in multiple contexts been closely collaborating with the Italian poet Nanni Cagnone with the works "Index vacuus," "Waves", "Obstupescit Venticinque", "a ' in altre parole ' b" from the poetry collection: "What's he to Hecuba or Hecuba to him?"
Sæther has worked as a music teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Trondheim for 3 years, violinist (soloist and orchestral musician) for 25 years, teacher at the music school for 15 years, principal of municipal music schools and cultural schools in total 5 years and music coordinator at the Opera in Kristiansund for 1 ½ years.
Harald Sæther has been a member of the New Music Composer Group since 2007 and chairman since 2009. He is a member of Norwegian Society of Composers.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Helge Sunde was born 9.6.1965 (Carl Nielsens 100th anniversary day), and over the last 25 years has enjoyed a career as a composer and performing musician, in recent years concentrated his energy towards Ensemble Denada for which he has written over 20 works.
At the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Sunde studied composition under Olav Anton Thommessen, Bjørn Kruse, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson, graduating with a diploma. He completed his studies in 1995 by releasing the CD compilation “Absolute Pling Plong” together with seven of his co-students.
As an arranger, Sunde has worked with a lot of Norwegian and international artists in projects with symphony orchestras. Sunde has also served as a musical director for various big-bands such as the Sandvika Storband, Prime Time Orchestra and alsoBærum Musikk og Danseteater (BærMuDa – Bærum Music and Dance Theatre).
As a performing musician, Sunde is frequently featured in the role of lead trombonist and jazzsoloist with such ensembles/big-bands as Geir Lysne Ensemble, Ensemble Denada, LaDescarga, Sharp Nine and Ophelia Orchestra. He has also been at the british top 10 list with Motorpsycho (Walking with J) and tours frequently with Mory Kanté Electric Band.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
Hugo Harmens is in his third year of the composition BA, Rotterdam Conservatorium (Codarts). He was previously a student in the music program at the University College of Østfold, studied drama at Queen Maud's College, and composition and classical singing at the Music Academy in Cracow.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was an ethnic Greek, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
Inger Bråtveit has been co-editor of the influential literary magazine Vagant and is now working as a translator for The Norwegian Bible Society’s project Bible 2010, a complete revision of the Nynorsk and Bokmål translations of the Bible. Since 2007, Bråtveit has been working with the Swedish poet Cecilia Hansson on Love Project, a dialogical-poetical examination of love and sexuality. Her first novel, Mouth Against a Frozen Fjord, won the Nynorsk literary award in 2003. Her second novel, Siss and Unn, was nominated for the Critics' Prize 2008.
At borealis:
Biblioludium - Inger Bråtveit
Wednesday
17:00
Born 1954 in Gateshead, England. Studied at Jacob Kramer College of Art, Leeds; Nottingham Trent University Dept. Fine Art, with composer Michael Nyman as tutor; Goldsmiths College, University of London, with tutors John Wood & Sarat Maharaj. In the late seventies was a member of multimedia performance group Aerschot and post-punk rock band The Distributors. After leaving The Distributors, formed a new band, Pure Forms, active in London during 1981-82. In 79-80 worked as member of community arts team for Mid-Pennine Arts, Burnley and tutor in art at Nelson & Colne College. In the early eighties worked as graphic designer at a London print shop, before joining London Video Arts (later known as The Lux) as exhibitions organiser. After leaving LVA, formed The Film & Video Umbrella together with film theorist & curator Michael O´Pray. From 1988 - 1990 FVU arranged a series of video art exhibitions and screening programmes, touring the U.K. and showing at international festivals. In 1990 moved to Norway to take up position as Associate Professor in Intermedia at Trondheim Academy of Art. Professor of Intermedia from 1996 - 2001, and Head of Fine Art from 1997 - 2001. In 2001 moved to Bergen National Academy of The Arts as Professor of Fine Art. Professor & MA Course Leader since 2004.
Has exhibited extensively in Britain, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Asia and Australia since the late seventies, working within video, performance, installation, photography and digital media. See list of exhibitions, festivals and screenings. Since 2000 has realized several large public commissions and has worked frequently with painter Jon Arne Mogstad and sound artist Trond Lossius in the project group LMW. Has also written widely on video art, experimental film, art and new technology. See bibliography. Presentations at numerous international conferences, seminars and symposia.
Has been a member of the Visual Arts Advisory Committee for the Arts Council of Norway and leader of the Art & Technology Committee. Consultant for KORO, Public Arts Norway on major public commissions.
Now in his late thirties, Jérôme Combier first studied with the composer and conductor Hacène Larbi. In 1997 he was at the CNSM in Paris where his teachers were Emmanuel Nunes and Michaël Levinas. 1998 saw him appointed composer-in-residence at the Royaumont Foundation where his studies were further continued with Brian Ferneyhough and Antoine Bonnet. After a two-month residency in Japan, where he won further distinctions, he entered IRCAM to study computer-assisted composition. In 2002 his orchestral work 'Pays du vent, les Hébrides' was awarded a prize at the UNESCO International Composition Rostrum. A scholarship allowed him to stay at the Villa Médicis in Rome from 2004 to 2006 where he composed his instrumental cycle 'Vies silencieuses' and met the artist Raphaël Thierry who was to realise the visual installations for that work.
Jéröme Combier is artistic director of the Cairn ensemble.
At borealis:
Ensemble Cairn & Tor Åge Bringsværd
Saturday
16:00
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video art. Her experimental practice in the 1960s and 1970s has had a considerable influence on the development of these art forms.
John Cage was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Johnny Herbert is an artist currently living in the UK. His work has been presented in North America, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Norway and throughout the UK. Johnny was a 2011 artist-in-residence at the USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway.
At borealis:
Datakor
Tuesday
16:00
Juan de Araujo (1646–1712) was a musician and composer of the Early to Mid Baroque.
Araujo was born in Villafranca, Spain. By 1670 he was nominated maestro di capella of Lima Cathedral. In the following years he travelled to Panama and most probably to Guatemala. On his return to Peru, he was hired as maestro di capella of Cuzco cathedral and in 1680 of Sucre Cathedral in Bolivia, where he stayed until his death.
The work of Kaj Aune is applicable to both contemporary music and visual art. By combining visual and theatrical elements with sound and music, he creates his own language and method of storytelling. His works are often absurd, tragic and comical, with references to historic and everyday life scenarios. The reuse of already-existing material is also an important element in his work.
At borealis:
Kaj Aune
Saturday
21:30
Karstein Djupdal is currently studying composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has a Masters degree as a pianist from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and has also studied piano and composition in Kristiansand and Maastricht. He has written music for piano and chamber music, and has participated as a composer at Oslo Grieg Festival, the Ultima Festival, and as a composer/musician at the Nødutgang Festival. In 2008 he received 2nd prize in the Grieg Competition for composers.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
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Sax player Kjetil Møster got the public’s attention in 2000 when he played with Chick Corea and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra's collaboration at Molde International Jazz Festival. Since then he has played in an unknown number of bands, including The Core, Zanussi 5, MZN3, Ultralyd and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Pat Metheny, performing on more than 30 albums with both jazz, pop, rock and metal bands. In 2006 he was given the "International Jazz Talent of the Year" by IJFO and IAJE. He is releasing an acoustic solo saxophone album on Bjørnar Habbestad's +3dB Records later this spring.
Klaus Sandvik was born in Bergen in 1966. Bachelor degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music, under the inspiring tutorship of professor and master Asbjørn Schaathun. Bachelor degree in mathematics and computer studies from the University of Oslo. Jazz-composition and improvisation at Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA.
Klaus Sandvik has received commissions from The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, violonist Geir Inge Lotsberg, Oslo String Quartet, Ensemble Fanfaronner, experimental percussionist Kjell Tore Innervik, Telemark Brassensemble and Fannaråken Wind Quintet.
Klaus Sandvik was awarded the EDVARD-prize in contemporary music in 2010 - work of the year - for his work 'Prime Preparation' by the Norwegian performing rights society (TONO).
In 2004 Sandvik wrote the official fanfare for the norwegian Abel-prize organisation.
In 2003 Sandvik's composition 'How Fair is Thy Face' for choir was chosen one of the three winning works at the The International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers.
Klaus Sandviks music attempts to make a substantial impact on the listener and is based upon a wide understanding of possible listening experiences. His interest for formalized structures and their intrinsic qualities are often combined with a strong intention to create an organic and at the same time challenging development. One important ingredient in his treatment of different compositional material is to constantly evaluate and monitor the energetic capacity of its sound. Another key element in his compositional process is an acute awareness of when and how musical material relates to referential musical heritage.
Member of the Norwegian Society of Composers since 2007.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
Knut Christian Jansson, pianist, has studied with Jiri Hlinka and Einar Henning Smebye, and finished his mastersdegree in pianostudies at the Grieg Academy of Music in 2002.
When he was 14, he had his soloperformance debut with an orchestra in Mozarts Concerto Rondo i D-Major. He has appeared as a soloist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and recently he performed Griegs Concert in A-minor and Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue with two of Norways best wind-ensembles. The last years he has also made a name for himself as a conductor conducting i.e. St John Passion by Bach and Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Händels Messiah and Fartein Valens motetter.
Grammy award-winning Konono N°1's Congotronics album introduced the world to the strange and spectacular electro-traditional sounds concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa, Congo. World music, electronica and avant-rock aficionados have all been equally amazed by this otherworldly music, driving international press to come up with some surprising comparisons, from Can and Krautrock to Jimi Hendrix, Lee Perry and even ‘proto-techno’!
At borealis:
Konono No. 1
Friday
23.00
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Kristin Mulders, Norwegian mezzo-soprano based in Copenhagen, started taking voice lessons at the age of 19 when studying music at Wartburg College, Iowa. She holds a mastersdegree in vocal performance from the Grieg Academy of Music in Bergen, Norway. She has given numerous recitals both in Norway and abroad, and is regularly doing solo-parts with choirs and orchestras. Her versatile repertoire includes lieder, opera and baroque music, as well as music from the renaissance and the modern classical cabaret genre, and she has done solo-parts in works like Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B-minor and St.Johns Passion, Mozart and Duruflé Requiems, Verdis Requiem, Mendelssohns Elijah, Beethovens Symphony no.9, Händels Messiah, Schnittke Requiem, Charpentiers Te Deum and Messe de Minuit and Buxtehudes Membra Jesu Nostri.
( ...)And while the orchestra played perfectly and the choir nearly so, the highlights of the evening were no doubt soprano soloist Irene Naegelin and mezzo-soprano soloist Kristin Mulders. The vocal range they tackled with such grace and beauty was thoroughly captivating and their sweet, emotional sounds begged this audience member to simply close her eyes to better imbibe the composition. They, along with their fellow male soloists were practiced and worldly and one had the impression that Savannah was lucky to have them for even one night(...)
The South Magazine - Savannah/GA Oct.09
Throughout the week, students from Laksevåg videregående skole will interview artists, write reviews, photograph events and create other media around the festival and the 2011 'Tripping' theme.
Students from Langhaugen Videregående skole will join asamisimasa in their performance of Louis Andriessen's 'Workers Union'.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
Laurence Crane was born in Oxford in 1961 and studied composition with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne at Nottingham University. He lives and works in London. His music is mainly written for the concert hall, although his list of works includes pieces initially composed for film, radio, theatre, dance and installation.
He is closely associated with the British ensemble Apartment House, who have given numerous performances of his work since their formation in 1995. He has composed two pieces especially for the ensemble; Riis and John White in Berlin , the latter commissioned in 2003 by the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. His output includes solo works written for some of the regular personnel of Apartment House, including Bobby J for guitarist Alan Thomas, Sparling for clarinettist Andrew Sparling and Raimondas Rumsas for cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, who is the founder and director of the ensemble. Apartment House have presented two portrait concerts of Crane's work; in October 1998 at the Three Two Festival in New York City and in October 2001 at The Warehouse in London as part of the BMIC's Cutting Edge series, a concert that was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3's weekly new music programme Hear and Now.
Other ensembles from the UK who have performed Crane's work include Ixion, Lontano, Radius, Noszferatu, Plus-Minus Ensemble and the London Sinfonietta, as well as Continuum Ensemble (Toronto), Bradyworks (Montreal), Ensemble Offspring (Sydney) and 175 East (Auckland), who have broadcast a number of works on Concert FM in New Zealand. The Canadian new music group Ensemble Kore gave a concert of his work in Montreal in September 2005. In 2006 he was commissioned by the Zaterdag Matinee concert series to write West Sussex Folk Material for the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra/Thierry Fischer. This work was given its première in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in December 2006 in a concert that was broadcast live on Dutch Radio. He has been commissioned twice to write for the Ives Ensemble in The Netherlands; in 2003 he composed Movement for 10 Musicians , for a collaboration with Rotterdam Dance Works, and in 2007 Chamber Symphony, which the Ives Ensemble premièred in November of that year. Other ensembles in The Netherlands who have commissioned work from Crane are Orkest de Ereprijs and Orkest de Volharding.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
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Le Jury is a small and flexible ensemble with musicians of active and curious character. Even though they come from a classical tradition they like to expand their horizon through musical improvisation. They often have guest musicians with different musical backgrounds.
Lene Grenager studied composition and the cello at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo under Aage Kvalbein (cello), Olav Anton Thommessen and Alfred Janson (composition). She has also attended seminars and lectures with the following composers: Louis Andriessen, Gerard Grisey, George Benjamin, Brian Ferneyhough, Magnus Lindberg, Philip Manoury, Iannis Xenakis, Tristan Murail, Klas Torstensson, Alejandro Vinao, Bent Sørensen, James Dillon, Trevor Wishart and Judith Weir. Currently (2009-2013) she holds a five year work grant from the Norwegian State, and the same institution awarded her a three year work grant (2002-2004) for Young Artists. She has also been awarded grants from Fegerstens Legat, Komponistenes vederlagsfond and TONO. In 2002 she was awarded the Lindeman Prize for young composers. From 1999 till 2001 she held a scholarship position in composition at Agder University College. From 1998 she is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers. Grenager works both as composer and musician. She has been working professionally since 1995 with commissions from a.o. Cikada, Ensemble Ernst, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Bodø Sinfonietta, Nordic Music Days, Fylkingen and Affinis ensemble. She has had portrait concerts at the festivals Ultima, Borealis and Ilios and her works has been performed at festivals and concerts all over Europe. She finds it important that the musicians own voices and choices are reflected in the performances of her works but simultaneously that the core of the work is clearly defined from her hand. This has resulted in a great variety of notational techniques and richness in detail in the different scores. Grenager«s work as performing improvisational musician has also influenced her compositions. She tours extensively all over the world with the improvisation bands SPUNK, Lemur and with Sofia Jernberg. She has also cooperated closely with dancers, visual artists and actors.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
Louis Andriessen is one of Europe's most eminent and influential composers. His music combines propulsive energy, economy of material and distinctive sonorities, often dominated by pungent wind and brass, pianos and electric guitars.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
Luciano Berio, (1925 – 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition 'Sinfonia' for voices and orchestra, and his series of numbered solo pieces titled 'Sequenza'). He was also a pioneer in the field of electronic music.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
Maja Ratkje (b.1973) is a Norwegian vocalist and composer. She performs and releases music for concerts, recordings, films, installations, theatre, dance and other performances. Maja is a member of SPUNK, a Norwegian improv group, and Agrare, a performance trio consisting of the noise duo Fe-mail and the Swedish dancer Lotta Melin. She has collaborated with, among others, Jaap Blonk and Jazzkammer.
At borealis:
Tanja Orning
Wednesday
17:30
Maria Øy Lojo Artist born in 1978, with BA from Glasgow School of Art in sculpture and MA of art at Bergen National Academy of the Arts, where she is currently working as scientific assistant in new media. She also studied performance with tutor Diane Torr and contemporary choreography and dance with Vilde Sparre Jansen and others. BEK has been her main location for making works for the past couple of years, where she's also been teaching, developing projector construction and working as a system administor. The artist has previously collaborated with Maia Urstad, Roar Sletteland and Teaterbåten Innvik amongst others. She's been presented in Australia, throughout UK and Norway in venues such as City Art Centre in Edinburgh, WASPS Studios Glasgow, Bergen Kunsthall and Museum of Sidney.
At borealis:
Affinitive Memory
Mathias Spahlinger was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1944. He became a teacher at the stuttgart school of music in piano, theory, early music education and experimental music in 1968, later studying composition with Erhard Karkoschka at the conservatory of music and the performing arts in Stuttgart. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer in music theory at the academy of the arts in Berlin and in 1984, professor of composition and music theory at the conservatory of music in Karlsruhe. In 1990 he became professor of composition and director of the institute for new music at the conservatory of music in Freiburg. He has lived in Potsdam since 2009.
At borealis:
asamisimasa
Friday
20:00
American composer Morten Feldman (1926-1987) is a major figure in 20th century music. Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. His works are characterized by notational innovations which he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms which seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings which seem softly unfocused; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also begin to explore extremes of duration.
At borealis:
Tanja Orning
Wednesday
17:30
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Música Temprana specilalize in the interpretation of Latin American Baroque music. Though academically trained, members are all fed by roots in the musical tradition of Latin America. Música Temprana revel in taking the audience by surprise with sparkling repertoire assembled in the archives, cathedrals and Jesuit missions of Latin America. Both the music and instruments reflect the rich cultural diversity of Latin America and its Creole, Indian, African and European influences.
Composer Nils Henrik Asheim (b.1960) combines his work with a career as a performer, as well as regularly collaborating with other artists on projects integrating spatial and theatrical elements. Asheim started out as a pupil of Olav Anton Thommessen and made his début as a composer at the early age of fifteen. In 1978 he was awarded the EBU Rostrum prize for his work Ensemblemusikk for 5. He subsequently went on to study organ and composing at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.
From about the year 2000 onwards Asheim’s music displays a stronger focus on texture and the physical and tactile qualities of sound. His music presents parallel temporal proportions; Asheim works with layers of closeness and distance. Recurring material undergoes variation, thereby creating a form that appears open and self-generating. In the course of this same period Asheim makes his mark as a performer with his free-improvisation disc 16 pieces for organ and its sequel 19.03.04, Oslo Cathedral, and a collaboration with soprano Anne-Lise Berntsen resulting in the recordings Engleskyts and Kom regn. Asheim also appears as a pianist in various projects.
Nils Henrik Asheim has written several chamber music pieces including Vannspeil, Navigo, Chase, Nicht and Broken Line; his output for orchestra includes the works Speil, Turba , Wind Songs and Degrees of White. He has also written a number of large-scale sacred works. Since 1991 Asheim has lived in Stavanger where he is active as a composer, performer and organizer, and not least as the principal initiator of the founding of Tou Scene, an alternative centre for contemporary arts
Members of the Odda schools brass band, led by Petro Romanyshyn, will perform at Odda library in a piece devised especially for the event.
At borealis:
Odda skolekorps
Wednesday
17:30
Peter Szilvay first came to the fore as a conductor with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in 1996, ending his diploma studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo. He was soon spotted as an talent among young Norwegian conductors: he was conductor in residence with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in the period 1998 – 2000, and he won the Norwegian competition ‘Conductor of the Year’ in 1998, followed by an invitation by Mariss Jansons’ to serve as his assistant.
Szilvay has gained experience from working with a number of orchestras: the St Petersburg Philharmonic as well as Scandinavian symphony orchestras and all the leading Norwegian orchestras. His versatility has led him into working in the opera field and on several ballet projects for the Norwegian Opera. He has worked extensively with Norwegian military bands, and he has made his positive mark in the field of contemporary music with several leading contemporary music ensembles. He has also for some time been a part of the artistic leadership of the annual Winter Music Festival at Røros. He has worked with soloists, such as Leila Josefowitz, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Virginia Tola, Martin Fröst, Håkan Hagegård. Most recently, Szilvay was chosen as the season's conductor profile by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, with 4 concert projects and a very varied repertoire up the pipeline. The most demanding production is undoubtedly the Johannes Haarklou oratorio 'Skabelsen og mennesket' (words by Henrik Wergeland), performed in November for the first time since 1924, as part of the Wergeland2008 celebrations.
NEW TOOLS FOR A NEW SOUND: Bastien & Sommer Eide’s instruments and machines cannot be found in a music shop. They don't hide in a steel case labeled by a top Japanese brand. The instruments and mechanisms are made personally with a screwdriver and soldering iron in their studios in Bergen and Rotterdam.
“The listeners of our concerts are also viewers and explorers: they travel into the sound; walking inside the composition to discover new shapes of music to come.”
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Pierre Jodolwski was born in Toulouse (France) in 1971.
After studying composition at the Conservatoire of Lyon and IRCAM, Pierre Jodlowski founded the collective éole and festival Novelum in Toulouse. His work as a composer led him to perform in France and abroad in most places dedicated to contemporary music but also in parallel circuits, dance, theater, visual arts and electronic music. His work unfolds today in many areas and outskirts of the musical universe, he has worked on image for interactive programming facilities, staging and seeks above all to question the relationship between dynamic performance spaces. He now claims the practice of "active" music in its physical dimension [gestures, energy, space] as psychological [evocation, memory, cinematic]. In parallel to his compositions, he also performs as a soloist or in formation with other artists.
In projects, he has collaborated with Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ictus - Belgium, KNM - Berlin, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, New Ensemble Moderne - Montreal, Ars Nova – Sweden and Proxima Centauri. He also conducts collaborations with musicians, such as Jean Geoffroy - percussion, Cedric Jullion - flute, Wilhelm Latchoumia – piano and Jeremy Siot - violin for works and research on new instrumental capacities. He recently produced a trio with Roland Auzet (percussion) and Michel Portal (clarinet). His work led him to develop collaborations with visual artists, in particular, Vincent Meyer and David & Alain Coste Josseau. He also works with the stage designer Christophe Bergon on several projects at the intersection of theatre, installation and concert or oratorio.
His works are partly published by Editions Jobert and are the subject of several publications and video recordings.
He has received commissions from IRCAM, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ministry of Culture, CIRM, GRM, Donaueschingen Festival, Radio France, Piano Competition in Orleans, GMEM of GRAME , Siemens Foundationand European project INTEGRA. He is also winner of several international competitions, including the Prix Claude Arrieu SACEM in 2002 and was in residence at the Academy of the Arts in 2003 and 2004. His works and performances are broadcast in key places devoted to contemporary sound arts in France, Europe, Canada, China, Japan and Taiwan and the United States.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Pierre-André Valade was born in central France in 1959. In 1991 he co-founded the Paris based Ensemble Court-Circuit of which he was Music Director for sixteen years until January 2008, before he was appointed chief conductor with the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen in September 2009.
He is especially well-known and admired for his performances of repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries, and receives regular invitations from major festivals and orchestras in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Of his many recordings, Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques has been singled out for particular praise and won both the Diapason d'or de l'année 1999 and the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros. His more recent recordings include works by Hugues Dufourt (also given a Diapason d'Or of the Year 2008, as well as a "Choc" du Monde de la Musique), and on Deutsche Grammophon Harrison Birtwistle's Theseus Game, a piece he premiered in Duisburg and conducted at the South Bank, BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Lucerne International Festival and in Berlin.
In the past few years he has conducted many different orchestras in a wide range of repertoire from Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Stravinsky to Berio, Birtwistle, Boulez, Carter, Lachenmann, Stockhausen, as well as numerous pieces by composers of the younger generation, notably composers of the French Spectralist school such as Hugues Dufourt, Gérard Grisey, Philippe Hurel, Philippe Leroux and Tristan Murail.
Highlights from his recent or future appearances include a concert with the Tokyo Philharmonic in August 2008 which was singled out as one of the three best concerts of the year in Japan. In 2008 he has received again the Grand-Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, this time under the category "conductor", for his achievements in three recent recordings.
He is a regular guest conductor with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Other orchestras he has worked with include the BBC Symphony in London, BBC Scottish Symphony in Glasgow, BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff, Philharmonia in London, BBC Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony, RTÉ National Symphony of Ireland in Dublin, Montreal Symphony, Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle, I pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Accademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Torino, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, the London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Ensemble Musikfabrik in Dusseldorf, Ensemble Laboratorium in Lugano.
He made his BBC Proms debut in 2001, and has appeared at the Aldeburgh, Bath International, Holland, Strasbourg Musica, Oslo Ultima, Monte Carlo Le Printemps des Arts, Nice Manca, Paris Ircam Agora, Radio-France Présences, Perth and Sydney festivals. In 2005 he conducted the world premiere of Marc Monnet's opera Pan for the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg. In 2006, he conducted London performances of Mixtur by Stockhausen with the London Sinfonietta, a portrait of Helmut Lachenmann with the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, as well as Fauré's Requiem and Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus at Westminster Cathedral. In 2008, he participates to the 100th anniversary of Messiaen's birth conducting works in London, Wellington, Basel and Hanoi, and presents for the first time in Japan Les Espaces Acoustiques by Gérard Grisey with the Tokyo Philharmonic at Suntory Hall for the Festival Century 21.
In January 2001 he was awarded Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840 - 1893) is a composer whose wide-ranging output includes operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets 'Swan Lake', 'The Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Nutcracker', the '1812 Overture', his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera 'Eugene Onegin'.
At borealis:
Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
Thursday
19.30
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) who regarded himself as "the most German of men" is known, not only for his 13 operas and numberous other compositions, but also because of his inevitable influence on contemporary understanding of German culture and history. He has been classified as an anarchist and a socialist and, simultaneously, as a proto-fascist and nationalist, as a vegetarian and an anti-semite. In fact, his name has appeared in connection to almost all major trends in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
At borealis:
Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
Thursday
19.30
Composer and avant-garde performance artist Rolf Wallin has established a reputation as one of the leading Scandinavian composers of his generation. Much of Wallin’s music combines an intuitive freedom with a rigorous mathematical approach, such as use of fractal algorithms to construct melody and harmony, resulting in a music that often hints at the influence of Ligeti, Xenakis and Berio.
At borealis:
Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
Thursday
19.30
Santiago de Murcia (place/date of birth unknown; died after 1732) was a Spanish guitarist and composer.
Few details about the life of Santiago de Murcia remain. He may have been related to the stringed instrument makers, Gabriel and Antonio de Murcia, but this has never been proven. Although he mentions the guitarist and composer Francisco Guerau in the introduction to his own printed collection of guitar music, there is no evidence that he actually studied with Guerau.
Sebastian Duron (1660 - 1716) was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain, and was taught by his brother Diego Duron, also a composer. Sebastian served as organist and choirmaster at various cathedrals (Seville, Cuenca, El Burgo de Osma,Plasencia) until in 1691 he was appointed master of the Royal Chapel of King Charles II in Madrid. He remained in this position until 1706, when he was suspended because of expressing support for Archduke Charles of Austria during the War of Spanish Succession, which ended with the victory of Bourbon King Philip V. Duron was forced into exile in France, from where he returned briefly in 1714 to serve as a musician to the Dukes of Osuna. In 1715 he returned permanently to Bayonne, France as chaplain to the exiled queen Mariana of Neuburg, the widow of Charles II, to whom he officiated in her scandalous remarriage to the son of a barrel-maker. He died in 1716 of tuberculosis at Cambo-les-Bains, Aquitania, France.
Although Durón composed many sacred pieces, and these and his villancicos were taken to the New World, his main influence was in the zarzuela.
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Simon Katan (b.1979) is a composer and performer, living and working in East London, whose diverse activities aside from writing traditional scores include computer music, interactivity, performance art, and game design. He studied a BA in music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama (2001), an MMus in composition at Goldsmiths University (2005) and is currently working on his PhD as an Isambard Research Scholar at Brunel University. Simon’s music has been performed by himself, Brainer, Ensemble Scratch the Surface, Kate Ryder, and others at many festivals including Spitalfields Festival, Borealis Festival, Soundwaves 2010, Sonic Expo 07 and 08 and Sonorities Festival 06. Simon was also a SAM shortlisted composer from 2007-2010; his recent commissions include Spitalfields Festival , Borealis 2010 and the Adopt a Composer Scheme. Simon has designed and run social and pervasive games for Hide and Seek, Coney, Igfest, and Sony PlayStation at venues such as the Secret Garden Party, The Green Man Festival , Round House, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, ICA, Battersea Arts Centre and Shunt.
At borealis:
Simon Katan : Sound Pit
Wednesday
20:30
<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:595.0pt 842.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Percussionist Sindre Sætre is born and raised in Bergen, Norway. He started taking lessons in classical percussion at an early age at the Bergen culture school and since then he have gone from studies at the Grieg Academy of Music, UiB to Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio to Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has performed as a soloist together with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, Trondheim Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Norwegian Army Band, and several other semi- professional and amateur ensembles in Norway on several occasions. In 2004 he won first price in the Norwegian National Youth Competition and the same year he was also one of the finalists in the Norwegian EBU's European Youth Competition. Today, Sindre go between master studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and working as a freelance musician in Norway and Sweden.
Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland driv undervisning innan skjønnlitterær skriving. Vi har landets mest etterspurde utdanningstilbod på dette feltet, og mange av våre studentar har debutert som forfattarar. Vi gjev undervisning i dei ulike skjønnlitterære sjangrane. Det er i hovudsak forfattarar som underviser, for tida fire faste lærarar i tillegg til ei rekkje gjestelærarar. Undervisninga legg vekt på det praktiske skrivearbeidet, og særleg på den einskilde student sine eigne tekstar. Akademiet er lokalisert i Kulturhuset USF (Verftet) på Nordnes, eit bygg som huser mange kulturverksemder og kunstnarar innan ulike fagområde. I tillegg finn ein kafé, filmklubb, konsertlokale, visningsrom og teatersal i bygget. Skrivekunstakademiet blei skipa i 1985, av forfattaren Rolf Sagen og Hordaland fylkeskommune, som finansierer institusjonen. I styret sit representantar frå fylkeskommunen, Universitetet i Bergen og Den norske Forfatterforening. Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland er ei stifting som har til føremål å gje undervisning i skrivekunst og elles arbeide for å styrkje norsk skriftkultur. Årsstudiet er gratis, og er godkjend som høgare utdanning av NOKUT. Fullført utdanning gjev 60 studiepoeng. Ein kan søkje lån og stipend i Statens Lånekasse for utdanning
At borealis:
Biblioludium – Skrivekunstakademiet
Friday
17:00
Steve Reich was recently called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE), “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “...among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).. From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Mr. Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London).
In celebration of his 75th birthday, Steve Reich's music will frame the Borealis 2011 program, with FMKV performing a version of his 'New York Counterpoint' on Tuesday the 22nd of March and Sindre Sætre and friends giving a public workshop and performance of 'Clapping Music' on Saturday the 26th of March.
Stine Sørlie is a graduate of the Gotland Tonsättarskola and the Norwegian Academy of Music. Her works includes solo, chamber and orchestral pieces, and music for film, theater and dance. She has written for numerous distinguished musicians in various genres, and ensembles including Cikada, Oslo Sinfonietta and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Her music has been performed at festivals such as the Stockholm Chamber Music Festival, UNM, NuMusic and Ultima.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Tanja Orning is a cellist focusing on contemporary music. After studies in Oslo, London, and Indiana University, she held the position as a co-principal cellist in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra for 5 years until she left for Oslo in order to realise a number of projects as a performer, improviser and composer. She is currently playing with groups such as Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, asamisimasa, BOA, Dr.Ox and Polygon as well as her solo-project Cellotronics which resulted in a CD in 2005. Orning is currently undertaking research in contemporary performance practice at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
At borealis:
Tanja Orning
Wednesday
17:30
"A brilliant percussion improvisor- he is capable of a wide range of sounds and qualities, and is always fully present, neither lagging behind nor rushing ahead. His work dances full of thought with an overall easy clarity and earthy groundedness." Julian Cowley, The Wire
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
At borealis:
Tatsuya Nakatani
Thursday
17:30 & 23:00
The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics IEM is one of the
leading research institutes in the field of computer music and audio
engineering. As part of the University of Music and Performing Arts
Graz, IEM serves as a multidisciplinary institution at the intersection
of arts and science. Since its establishment in 1965 the institute has
gained a reputation for outstanding artistic work in electronic and
contemporary music production, as well as for highly sophisticated
research in signal processing and acoustics. IEM's frequent
collaborators include composers Peter Ablinger, Beat Furrer, Bernhard
Lang and Olga Neuwirth, as well as ensembles Klangforum Wien, Bit20,
Ensemble Modern, Ars Nova, Athelas Sinfonietta and musikFabrik. The
design of live-electronic instruments as well as the installation of
multichannel sound projection systems in small and large concert venues
alike, make IEM a sought-after partner, providing know-how and education
to composers and musicians in striving for the best integration of
technology in research, creation and performance of new music.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
Therese Birkelund Ulvo has studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She has written pieces for a various range of acoustic ensembles, but also frequently involve live electronics in her works. Therese Birkelund Ulvo is includede in the MIC program INTRO Composer for the period 2010 - 2012.
At borealis:
Ensemble Fanfaronner
Wednesday
19:00
Self-taught enthusiast Thierry Besche's classical musical education focussed around learning violin, piano and flute. His electroacoustic training included being a pupil of GRM-INA, IRCAM-Pantin, and of Pierre Henry. Having participated in various instrumental and theatre groups, he settled in Albi where, from 1975 to 1980, he directed La Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture. There, he built up a team resolutely focused on creation, and organized numerous shows, exhibitions, meetings and creative activities.
In 1977, with Roland Ossart, he founded the Albi Electroacoustic Music Workshop, which became the GMEA in 1981.
Since 1981, his career has been interwoven with the development of the GMEA. In addition to his organizational role as director, he has in the last 30 years headed numerous projects in different areas: creation, padagogy, teaching, research, broadcasting, publication and production.
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Thomas Bonvalet, (b.1977) lives between the forest of « la Double », in the south-west of France and Madrid, Spain. Guitar player of the band Cheval de frise between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l'ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA and China. Focusing at first on short and tensed miniatures on classical guitar and feet tapping, he mainly composes now for six nylon strings Banjo, harmonica reeds (beaten or blowed), mouth organ, tuning forks, microphones, feet tapping and metronome. Its inner sound might evoke flamenco or blues, modern or ancient classical occidental music,…
At borealis:
L’Ocelle Mare - Thomas Bonvalet
Thursday
22:00
Awarded a Arts Council of Norway Honorary Award in 2010, Tor Åge Bringsværd is an eminent Norwegian author & playwright, widely regarded as the first Norwegian to write science fiction literature.
At borealis:
Ensemble Cairn & Tor Åge Bringsværd
Saturday
16:00
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Trond Lossius is a sound and installation artist based in Bergen. He has collaborated with other artists on a large number of cross-disciplinary projects, in particular installations and works for stage, and his projects have been presented at major venues in Norway and abroad. He has contributed to several productions with the contemporary performance group Verdensteatret, winner of New York Dance and Performance Awards a.k.a. The Bessies 2005-2006 in the Installation & New Media category.
He graduated with a master degree in geophysics from the University of Bergen, and went on to study music and composition at The Grieg Academy. From 2003-2007 he was a research fellow in the arts at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Trond Lossius is currently engaged in research and development at BEK -Bergen Center for Electronic Arts- contributing to development of the software library Jamoma, a guest researcher at the University of Oslo and member of the management committee of COST-SID, an European research project on Sonic Interaction Design.
Vanilla Riot move from particle improvisation to electronic eruptions, from softly flickering patterned samples to high intensity shockwaves of improvised noise. Simultaneously, and in interaction with their sound output, they project prepared and live video material onto walls, curtains and improvisers, creating numerous situations of synaesthetic experience.
At borealis:
Vanilla Riot
Friday
21:30
Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America, and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies, and much more. He was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Music for hisTwelve New Etudes for piano.
Øyvind Mæland studied piano at the Barratt Due Institue of Music with Jiri Hlinka and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Bjørn Kruse, Olav Anton Thommessen and Ivar Frounberg. His porduction consists mainly of chamber music works, which have been performed by the the Stavanger Contemporary Ensemble, Martin Fröst and the Oslo Sinfonietta under Christian Eggen. Øyvind Mæland has participated in several master classes at home and abroad.
At borealis:
BIT20 Ensemble + IEM Graz
Wednesday
19:00
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