ИА «Ореанда-Новости».  The Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center reMusik.org announces the VII Saint Petersburg International New Music Festival taking place from July 3 to July 9, 2020 under the direction of composer Mehdi Hosseini. 


Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the main program of the festival is going to be presented as open online broadcasts on www.remusik.org portal. 

The reMusik.org Festival covers various areas of contemporary academic music – experimental, electro-acoustic, electronic music, multimedia projects, free improvisation and others. 

The Saint Petersburg International Festival reMusik.org is the largest festival of new music in Russia. One of the key ideas of the festival is to show the latest trends in the world of academic music. The program includes only world and Russian premieres of works created in recent decades. The compositions have been selected in a certain way, so that, despite complexity and originality of the musical language, no special training is required from the audience. The music presentation format is not limited to traditional academic concerts and involves performances and experimental shows. 

Among the venues annually hosting the festival are the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall, the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, New Holland Island, Lumiere-Hall creative space, Anikushin's Workshop, the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory and others. 

The festival is presented by world-famous musicians and well-known ensembles, both classical and experimental ones, specializing in the new music performance. This year, the festival hosts musicians and bands, such as: Les Percussions de Strasbourg (France), Lemniscate (Switzerland), Adapter (Germany), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia), Trio SÆITENWIND (Switzerland), Mixed Sound Personnel (Germany), cellist Yulia Migunova (Russia) with a solo concert and others. 

The finals of the IV International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition will take place as part of the VII reMusik.org festival, during which young composers are given the opportunity to hear their compositions performed by Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. The music scores of the winners will be published by Edition reMusik.org. 

The educational unit of the New Music Festival reMusik.org includes lectures, presentations and artistic events. Within the framework of the festival, the educational project Online Composition Course (curated by composer Alexander Khubeev) was presented for the second time and was held online from May 21 to June 1 this year due to the global events. It is a creative lab in which young authors from all over the world, as selected by the jury, are given the opportunity to work with famous guest performers and world-famous composers. Within seven days this year, the groups invited to the festival will perform works of the Composition Course participants at the festival. Lectures and individual courses with students have been held by the recognized masters of composer art – Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland), Joanna Bailie (Great Britain), Yuri Kasparov (Russia), Dmitri Kourliandski (Russia) and
Raphaël Cendo (France). 

The festival program includes works by composers such as Raphaël Cendo, Katharina Rosenberger, Dmitri Kourliandski, Joanna Bailie, Gary Berger, Yuri Kasparov, Svetlana Lavrova, Arturo Corrales, Natacha Diels, Vladimir Rannev, Joan Gomez Alemany, Alexandra Korableva, Simone Cardini, Philippe Hurel, Oscar Bianchi, Arman Gushchyan, Alexandra Filonenko, Jannik Giger, Cathy Van Eck, Yuri Akbalkan, Andreas Eduardo Frank, Michael Beil and others.


The festival is supported by the Government of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Committee for Culture, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Institut Français, the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Saint Petersburg, the Consulate General of Germany in Saint Petersburg, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium in Saint Petersburg, the Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg.

The festival webpage: https://en.remusik.org/festival/

The Festival Program
 

 

Friday, 3 July 2020 20:00 

Les Percussions de Strasbourg (France)

The program:

Raphaël CENDO (*1975)
Scratch Data (Russian Premiere, 2002)
for solo percussion
Philippe HUREL (*1955)
Ritual Trio (Russian Premiere, 2018)
Arturo CORRALES (*1973)
IDEM (Russian Premiere, 2010)
version for marimba and four percussionists
Oscar BIANCHI (*1975)
Aqba, Nel Soffio Tuo Dolce (Russian Premiere, 2005)
Vladimir RANNEV (*1970)
Branle of angels (Premiere, 2020)

 

Performers:

Flora Duverger

Minh-Tâm Nguyen

François Papirer

Enrico Pedicone

Rémi Schwartz

Thibaut Weber


Saturday, 4 July 2020  
14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland) 


Saturday, 4 July 2020
19:00

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia)

 The program:

Anton KOSHELEV (*1997)

Comprehension (Premiere, 2020)

for violin, cello and piano

Thanakarn SCHOFIELD (*1993)

…Dust Pile (Premiere, 2020)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Tobias FANDEL (*1986)

Rational choices (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Nicolas ROULIVE (*1989)

Toccatina (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano and electronics

Alfred JIMENEZ (*1988)

obstructive durations (Premiere, 2020)

for flutes, clarinet and cello

Jannik GIGER (*1985)

TANZ (Russian Premiere, 2018)

for bass clarinet, cello and piano

Simone CARDINI (*1986)

Seduto e polvere e frutti, tra parole intangibili (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for violin, cello and piano

 

Performers:

Ivan Bushuev, flute

Oleg Tantsov, clarinet

Gleb Khokhlov, violin

Yulia Migunova, cello

Mikhail Dubov, piano


Sunday, 5 July 2020 
14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Alexandra Filonenko (Germany)


Sunday, 5 July 2020 
18:00

Yulia Migunova, cello (Russia)

The program:

Lior EYTAN (*1986)

Mitgardim (Russian Premiere, 2017)

for amplified cello and electronics

Alexandra KORABLEVA (*1989)

more less (Premiere, 2020)

for cello and electronics

Arman GUSHCHYAN (*1981)

[V] (Premiere, 2020)

for cello and live-electronics

Alexandra FILONENKO (*1972)

Obsession (Premiere, 2020)

for cello and electronics

Aigerim SEILOVA (*1987)

Spiral (Russian Premiere, 2020)

for cello and electronics

Kelley SHEEHAN (*1989)

Blue Noise (Russian Premiere, 2018)

for snare drum and tape


Sunday, 5 July 2020 20:00

Ensemble Lemniscate (Switzerland)
Conductor: Daniel Moreira

The program:

Erik OÑA (1961 – 2019)

Das Gold des Rheins (Russian Premiere, 2012)

for piano, cello and video

Cathy VAN ECK (*1979)

Wings (Russian Premiere, 2007-08)

for big white shields, three microphones, one loudspeaker and three performers

Eric WUBBELS (*1980)

Tautology & Translation (Russian Premiere, 2011-12)

for clarinet, cello, piano and percussion

Yuri KASPAROV (*1955)

Four retro style graphic drawings (Premiere, 2020)

for string trio

Anton LINDSTRÖM (*1999)

Gabriel’s Epitaph (Premiere, 2020)

for septet

 

Performers:

Tatiana Timonina, flutes

Miao Zhao, clarinets

Andreas Kunz, violin

Sophie Wahlmüller, viola

Ellen Fallowfield, cello

Gilles Grimaître, piano

Miguel Ángel García Martín, percussions

Andreas Eduardo Frank, electronics

Monday, 6 July 2020 14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Dmitri Kourliandski (Russia)

Monday, 6 July 2020 20:00

Ensemble Adapter (Germany)

The program:

Natacha DIELS (*1981)

Sad Music for Lonely People (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for samplers, harp and percussion

Barblina MEIERHANS (*1981)

Ähm Me, hm [I], and M (Russian Premiere, 2015)

for four voices and video

Paul CLIFT (*1978)

Shadow Art II (Russian Premiere, 2018)

for flute, voice and real-time electronics

Joan GOMEZ ALEMANY (*1990)

Ein Klangbuch für Alle und Keinen (Premiere, 2020)

for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, percussion and harp

Yuri AKBALKAN (*1986)

ricercar (Premiere, 2020)

for performers, video, sensor and interactive electronics

Joanna BAILIE (*1973)

Station (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for harp, tape and video

 

Performers:

Kristjana Helgadóttir, flute

Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, clarinet

Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir, harp

Matthias Engler, percussion


Tuesday, 7 July 2020 
14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Yuri Kasparov (Russia)


Tuesday, 7 July 2020 
18:00

Duo Mixed Sound Personnel (Germany)

The program:

Alexandra FILONENKO (*1972)

Gravity of Love (Russian Premiere, 2018)

for high soprano, percussion, video and electronics

Maxim SHALYGIN (*1985)

Maze of Pleasures (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for voice, e-drums and electronics

Jiwon SEO (*1993)

Eon 3m,oq (Russian Premiere, 2020)

for soprano and tape

Jerry Yue ZHUO (*1993)

Name It (Premiere, 2020)

for soprano and snare drum

Gary BERGER (*1967)

Doppelte Wendung (Russian Premiere, 2000)

for voice, percussion and live-electronics

 

Performers:

Viktoriia Vitrenko, voice

Lucas Gerin, percussion


Tuesday, 7 July 2020 
20:00 

Trio SÆITENWIND (Switzerland)

The program:

Arshia SAMSAMINIA (*1989)

Constructive Imaginary #2 – Electrosonics (Russian Premiere, 2019)

Ezko KIKOUTCHI (*1968)

ONiBi (Russian Premiere, 2017)

Junghae LEE (*1964)

In a Close and Distant Space of Time (Russian Premiere, 2019)

Jack LANGDON (*1994)

Dissolved through the fields (Premiere, 2020)

Svetlana LAVROVA (*1970)

The silent life of invisible beings (Premiere, 2020)

Mischa KÄSER (*1959)

Fünf phonisische Baccunicellen (Russian Premiere, 2008)

Artur AKSHELYAN (*1984)

Music for Trio (Russian Premiere, 2015)

 

Performers:

Karolina Öhman, cello

Olivia Steimel, accordion

Jonas Tschanz, saxophone


Wednesday, 8 July 2020 14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Raphaël Cendo (France)


Wednesday, 8 July 2020 
20:00

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia)

The program:

Djordje MARKOVIC (*1978)

(inter)actions II (Premiere, 2020)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Mert MORALI (*1992)

Gigue (Premiere, 2020)

for flute and piano

Roman PARKHOMENKO (*1993)

Spheres (Premiere, 2020)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Chun-ting PANG (*1983)

Notturno con Fuoco (Russian Premiere, 2016)

for clarinet and violin

Alexandre JAMAR (*1995)

Forest Study I (Premiere, 2020)

for violin, cello and piano

Jean-Patrick BESINGRAND (*1985)

La Ultima Catabasi (Russian premiere, 2016)

for flute, clarinet, violin and piano

Tianyang ZHANG (*1995)

Pavilion alongside Mountains (,2020)

for violin, cello and piano

Natalia PROKOPENKO (*1985)

The imperfection of memory (Premiere, 2020)

for alto flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

 

Performers:

Ivan Bushuev, flute

Oleg Tantsov, clarinet

Gleb Khokhlov, violin

Yulia Migunova, cello

Mikhail Dubov, piano


Thursday, 9 July 2020 
14:00

Composer meet-and-greet: Joanna Bailie (United Kingdom) 


Thursday, 9 July 2020 
17:00

Award Winners’ Concert of the 4th International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition

The program:

Sergei SLONIMSKY (1932 – 2020)

Mini-partita (2014)

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Alberto ARROYO (*1989)
Estado interior I - Metainstrument Etude n.1 (Russian Premiere, 2015)
for flutes, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Joshua HEY (*1988)
I am in here (Russian Premiere, 2019)
for violin and cello

Shin MIZUTANI (*1991)
Harpocratēs (Russian Premiere, 2019)
for flutes, clarinets, violin and cello

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble:

Ivan Bushuev, flute

Oleg Tantsov, clarinet

Gleb Khokhlov, violin

Yulia Migunova, cello

Mikhail Dubov, piano


Thursday, 9 July 2020 
20:00

Ensemble Lemniscate (Switzerland)

Conductor: Daniel Moreira

 The program:

Daria ZVEZDINA (*1990)

don’t forget to feed your beasties twice a day (Premiere, 2020)

for viola, cello, piano and percussion

Thomas KESSLER (*1937)

piano control (Russian Premiere, 1974)

for piano and synthersizers / electronics

Katharina ROSENBERGER (*1971)

approximations (Premiere, 2020)

for ensemble, electronics and video

Dmitri KOURLIANDSKI (*1976)

dasein i & II (Russian Premiere, 2018)

for ensemble and tape

Andreas Eduardo FRANK (*1987)

performance is a monster (Russian Premiere, 2019)

for ensemble and electronics

Michael BEIL (*1963)

Exit to Enter (Russian Premiere, 2013)

for ensemble, electronics and video

 

Performers:

Tatiana Timonina, flutes

Miao Zhao, clarinets

Andreas Kunz, violin

Sophie Wahlmüller, viola

Ellen Fallowfield, cello

Gilles Grimaître, piano

Miguel Ángel García Martín, percussions

Andreas Eduardo Frank, electronics