Festival “The Time of Music: Fin de siècle”

Фестиваль «Время музыки: Fin de siecle»

6th Festival “The Time of Music: fin de siècle»

The St.Petersburg Contemporary Music Center will be hosting the 6^thannual International New Music Festival “The Time of Music: Fin de siècle”, which will be held in St.Petersburg in May 2012. The program for the first concert of the festival on May 26 will be held at the Sheremetevskii palace at 7pm. It is entitled “Too far away from the people?!” and will consist of folklore and new music, dealing with paradoxes and parallels. The second concert, held on May 27 at 7pm at the same venue, will be performed by the Molot ensemble, and will consist of French music in a program entitled “France: Three Generations”, including compositions by Roger Tessier and Bruno Mantovani…

Festival Programs

26 — 31 May 2012

26th May

St.Petersburg Sheremetev Palace, The Museum of Music,19.00

Folklore and New Music

Program

Elizaveta Panchenko – Concerto for harpsichord, dulcimer, flute and clarinet

Artur Zobnin – Forms for violin solo

Nastasia Khrushcheva – A little nervous

Svetlana Lavrova – Amalgama

Yaroslav Sudzilovsky – Controversial fantasy

Alexander khubiev – Soundscape

Stanislav Makovsky – API’s Aria

Nikolai Popov – Cantando ma non troppo

Performers

St. Petersburg Molot Ensemble:

Arthur Zobnin (violin), Alexi Govorov (cello), Georgy Dorokhov (flute), Alexander Zaharenko (clarinet), Ivan Alexandrov (piano), Sergei Chirkov (accordion)

“Novinka” Folklore Ensemble

conductor – Ivan Demidov

27th May

St.Petersburg Sheremetev Palace, The Museum of Music,19.00

«France: three generations»

Program

Roger Tessier – Three pieces for piano

Pascal Dusapin – However, for cello and piano

Bruno Mantovani – Appel d’air, for flute and piano

David Shea – Voice for solo cello

Kirill Zaborov – Hommage a Dmitri Shostakovich, for piano

Performers

St. Petersburg Molot Ensemble:

Arthur Zobnin (violin), Alexi Govorov (cello), Georgy Dorokhov (flute), Alexander Zaharenko (clarinet), Ivan Alexandrov (piano)

28th May

ERARTA, the Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, 19.00

Giacinto Scelsi – String Quartet № 4

Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour – «Broken Times» for String Quartet

Luciano Berio – Sequenza VIII for violin, Arthur Zobnin (violin)

Timothy Dunne – Ribbon, Alexandra Korobkina (violin)

Performers

String Quartet “In corpore”: Arthur Zobnin, Irina Anastasina, Philip Buin, Alexi Govorov.

29th May

Mihail Chemiakin Art Gallery and Foundation, 19.00

Haofu Zhang – “Théâtre pour deux”, for flute and piano

Martijn Padding – “Harmonypricker”, for flute and piano

Michel Lysight – “De part et d’autre” (1995), for flute, clarinet and piano

Ton de Leeuw – “Trio” (1990), for flute, bass clarinet and piano

Karel Goeyvaerts – “Voor Harrie”, Harry en René’ 1990 for flute, bass clarinet and piano

Sébastian Bradt – “Salmi del squartatore” (2002), for flute, bass clarinet and piano

Michel Lysight – “Labyrinthes”, for flute solo

Henri Pousseur – “Madrigal 1”, for solo clarinet

Jean-Luc Fafchamps – “Back to the sound”, for solo piano

Michel Lysight – “de part et d’autres”, for trio-ensemble

Performers

Ensemble «Mangalam»: Anne Davids (flute), Charlotte Otte (piano), Tomonori Takeda (clarinet).

30th May

ERARTA, the Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, 19.00

György Ligeti – “Sonata for Solo Cello”, Axel de Jenlis (cello)

Luciano Berio – “Les Mots sont allés” for cello, Axel de Jenlis (cello)

Wolfgang Delnui – “Schatten,gestalten” for cello solo, Axel de Jenlis (cello)

José María Sánchez Verdú – Arquitecturas del silencio for accordion, Sergei Chirkov (accordion)

Franck Bedrossian – «Bossa Nova», Sergei Chirkov (accordion)

Felix Pino Kovalenko – “Ixtaccihuatl” for string quartet, Performers: Chingiz Osmanov (Violin), Yuri Gorbachev (violin), Dmitry Chernyshenko (viola), Mikhail Degtyarev (cello).

Iurii Akbalkan – [S] for five voices

Wolfgang Delnui – JUHU for two flutes, Tatiana Rezetdinova and George Dolgov.

31st May

Mihail Chemiakin Art Gallery and Foundation, 19.00

Svetlana Lavrova – «21 Liszt », Galina Zhukova (piano)

Salvatore Sciarrino – “De la nuit”, Natalia Solovieva (piano)

Alexander Radvilovich – «Sphinx» for accordion and piano, Sergei Chirkov (accordion) and Galina Zhukova (piano)

Sofia Levkovskaya – “ABC Deaf”, Nadiejda Khadjova (soprano), Seraphima Verkholat (saxophone), Maria Nikisheva (piano)

Helmut Lachenmann – «temA» (vocalise), Nadiejda Khadjova (soprano), Tatiana Rezetdinova (flute), Alexi Govorov (cello)

Luciano Berio – Sequenza III for woman’s voice, Nadiejda Khadjova (soprano)

Iannis Xenakis – “a R”, Alexey Glazkov (piano)

Beat Furrer – «Voicelessness The snow has no voice», Natalia Solovieva (piano).

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