Concert de création II

On the occasion of 17th edition of the congress, Proxima Centauri joins in the set of Strasbourg Linéa for the creation of eight works on projects putting in link a saxophonist and a instrumental ensemble.
Artistic direction : Marie-Bernadette Charrier

Conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne

Biography

ENSEMBLE LINÉA :

Founded in 1998 in Strasbourg by conductor and pianist Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Linea is an internationally renowned ensemble.

Linea has already performed at important new music festivals and has given concerts in many different places of the world, e.g. New York, Seoul, Budapest, Brussels, Bilbao, Berlin, Huddersfield, Paris, Geneva, Lyons, Royaumont, Prague, etc. Furthermore, the ensemble is committed to fostering young and talented composers through commissions, master classes, and concerts. Another of Linea’s trademarks is its intercultural approach: putting music from other continents on the map, and organizing exchanges with ensembles from other countries. Linea is also deeply committed to training young performers and conductors, by organizing its own summer academy in Strasbourg, every year at end august.

L’Ensemble Linea is sponsored by la Ville de Strasbourg, le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/DRAC Alsace, la Région Alsace, le Département du Bas-Rhin, la SACEM, la Culture et la Copie Privée, la SPEDIDAM. L’Ensemble Linea Is subsidized by la Ville de Strasbourg, le Ministère de la Culture and la Communication/DRAC Alsace. It is a member of la PROFEDIM and of la FEVIS.

 

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On the occasion of 17th edition of the congress, Proxima Centauri joins in the set of Strasbourg Linéa for the creation of eight works on projects putting in link a saxophonist and a instrumental ensemble.

 

PROGRAM :

 

> Kenji SAKAI / Photons

soloist : Oishi Masanori (soprano and alto saxophone)

This concert piece is written in the natural physical setting that is found in several previous pieces. The photon, a particle associated to light waves, is musically translated by the figure, the pulse. This pulse begins with the saxophone solo and gradually spreads to the ensemble whereas the different pulses played by the tutti concentrate autonomously and finally metamorphose into a light wave.

 

> José Manuel LOPEZ LOPEZ / Sonidos Azules (French Premiere)

soloist : Andres Gomis (bass saxophone)

The main idea of the piece is an elaboration of a polyphonic space and complex tones created by the named byphonics. These pulsing sound objects will be placed in the acoustic space both by the soloist saxophone and by the instrumental and electronic ensemble.

 

> Alex MINCEK / Pneuma

soloist : Ibrahim Michael (tenor saxophone)

 

> Nicolas TZORTZIS / My condition exempts me

soloist : Vincent Daoud (tenor saxophone)

 

MUSICIANS :

 

Proxima Centauri : Marie-Bernadette Charrier, saxophone / Christophe Havel, electroacoustic / Sylvain Millepied, flute / Clément Fauconnet, percussion / Hilomi Sakaguchi, piano

 

Ensemble Linéa : Samuel Stoll, horn / Jens Bracher, trumpet / Thierry Spiesser, trombone / Marco Fusi, violin / N.N, violin / Antoine Spindler, viola / Johannes Burghoff, cello / Sven Kestel, double bass

 

Artistic direction : Marie-Bernadette Charrier and Jean-Philippe Wurtz

Musical direction : Guillaume Bourgogne