Festival Tour - The Age of Wire And String

7th September, 2010

The Age of Wire and String
- a guide through the postmodern wreckage of our time.
Deformed structures call for deformed expressions.

 

 

Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)   Arpège (1986) 12´
fl, cl, perc, pf, vl, vc

Per Mårtensson (b.1967)          Diptychon (2010) 10-15´ commissioned by NNEO
fl, cl, perc, pf, vl, va, vc

Anders Eliasson (f.1947)            Fantasia per sei instrumenti (2010) 10´
                                                          fl, cl, pf, vl, va, vc                            Commissioned by NNEO

                                                          PAUS

Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004)   Nell’alto dei Giorni Immobili (1990) 11´
fl, cl, pf, vn, va, vc

Rolf Wallin (b.1957)                    The Age of Wire and String (2005) 15´
fl(pic,afl) cl(bcl), pf, vn, va, vc

 

Tour Dates

7 sept Piteå Studio Acusticum 7pm

8 sept Luleå Kulturens hus 7pm

11 sept Stockholm Capitol 7pm

17 sept Lissabon 9pm

19 Sept Torshavn 4pm

 

Musica Viva Festival

17th September, 2010

 

Música Viva Festival 2010

September 10th – 25th at the Jerónimos Monastery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Belém Arts Centre and the Franco-Portugais Institute in Lisbon.

Already in it’s 16th edition, the Música Viva Festival 2010 stands out in the national music scene as a privileged lieu to get in touch with the contemporary musical creation. A place where technology and music crossover, a place where the acoustic and the analogue meet the electronic and the digital. Promoted by Miso Music Portugal – accomplishing 25 years of relentless activity in 2010 - the Música Viva Festival is one of the major actions developed by this association, among its broad range of activities.

The Música Viva Festival 2010 aims at challenging composers and performers, appeals to one’s curiosity and hopes to be a meeting for music that reinvents itself day after day, trying to find itself, trying to find it’s essence, knowing that it’s the sharing part of it which makes it valuable.

This festival shows its cosmopolitan feature by programming face-to-face Portuguese and foreign creators, inviting composers from Japan to Canada, and reinforcing the presence of European composers.
This year there’s also a specific program for the young audiences with 3 public concerts and the participation of two choirs for children: the extraordinary and pioneer Tapiola Choir from Finland, presenting themselves in Portugal for the first time and the University of Lisbon’s Children’s Choir. It is even time to celebrate the Portuguese composer Miguel Azguime’s 50th birthday.

With more than 30 premieres in 11 concerts, 11 world premieres, 23 Portuguese premieres and the total amount of 70 works, there will also be 40 works presented at the Sound Walk, award-winning pieces from the Música Viva 2010 Composition Competition and several new works from students from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

This year’s festival line-up profiles very different musical proposals – the participation of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Choir, the meeting of two children’s choirs, the iconic electronic music concerts by the Loudspeakers’ Orchestra, the several chamber music concerts by foreign ensembles such as the Norrbotten Neo-Sweden and the Ars Nova from Romania and Portuguese ones like the Matosinhos String Quartet and the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, among others – and this is what accounts for the number and the truly eclectic musical creation being presented in Portugal and throughout the world.

The Música Viva Festival 2010 challenges you to getting curious about it!

 

Norrbotten NEO will perform at the festival 17th of September at Centro Cultural de Belém 9 p.m.

 

program:

Rolf Wallin (b.1957)	The Age of Wire and String (2005)
Per Mårtensson (b.1967)	Diptychon (2010)commissioned by NNEO
Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004)	Nell’alto dei Giorni Immobili (1990)
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)	Arpège (1986)