ensemble

PHACE | NOUVELLES AVENTURES

29.May.2023 // 19:30
Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal

PHACE Series 22/23 – N°4

ARTISTS
Lars Mlekusch, conductor

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Johanna Vargas, soprano
Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano
Guillermo Anzorena, bariton

PHACE

PROGRAM

Hristina Šušak
ANIMA II for soprano, mezzo, recorder, calrinet, drumset, piano, violin and viola, 2022/23 (wp)
Commissioned by PHACE, with support by Wiener Konzerthaus

Andreas Trobollowitsch
hybrid #1 – ⥀18 for mechanical turntables, rotating recorders, balloons and performers, 2023 (UA)
Commissioned by PHACE

Pierluigi Billone
Δίκη Wall for percussion solo and 6 instruments (2012)

György Ligeti
Aventures (1962) and Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65) for 3 voices and 7 Instruments

In honor of the old master and yet with new adventures – György Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures have opened up new spaces for vocal music, emphasizing articulatory expression and showing singing as an independent musical art even without linguistic meaning. On the occasion of the composer’s 100th birthday, we would like to honor this turning point in the history of new music not only with a performance, but also with two commissioned works. The young composer Hristina Šušak is writing a new piece for the same cast, equally as a contrast across time and age, and Andreas Trobollowitsch is creating a performative music installation as an homage to the influential composer. With Pierluigi Billone’s Δίκη Wall, a very exciting work by a well-established contemporary artist is also on the program.

Prior to each concert, at 18:45, Juri Giannini will discuss the music with the composers within the setting of “Salon PHACE”.

ensemble & installation

PHACE | BLUR

28.Mrz.2023 // 19:30
Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal

PHACE Series 22/23 – N°3

ARTISTS

Yalda Zamani, conductor

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti,  flute
Iva Kovac, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin
Leo Morello, cello
Roland Schueler, cello
Alexandra Dienz, double bass
Samuel Toro Perez, electric guitar

PROGRAM

Hristina Šušak
ANIMA for trombone, cello, piano, e-guitar and percussion (2018/19) (Austrian premiere)

Katharina Rosenberger
blur for recorder, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello (2019)

Reinhold Schinwald
campi deserti for ensemble, 2022 (wp)
Commissioned by  PHACE, with support by the  SKE-Fonds and Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien MA7

Maurizio Azzan
Wasteland_not yet, for nine spatialized and amplified  musicians, 2022/23 (wp)
Commissioned by PHACE with support by Wiener Konzerthaus

In Katharina Rosenberger’s piece, blurred contours emerge from the noise, like a late-night taxi ride in the unsteady light of neon signs and traffic lights. blur smudges the edges and contours but still remains in a defined form. ANIMA by Hristina Šušak finds similarities in the very opposite emotions of laughter and crying. The piece shows the sonic differences and similarities as the boundaries blur and raises questions about the dualistic view of emotions. They are joined by Reinhold Schinwald and Maurizio Azzan with exciting new works commissioned by PHACE.

Prior to each concert, at 18:45, Juri Giannini will discuss the music with the composers within the setting of “Salon PHACE”.

ensemble – electronics

PHACE | KXE!

our series at
Wiener Konzerthaus
2022/23

CONDUCTORS
Nacho de Paz
Lars Mlekusch

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Ivana Pristasova, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass
Alexandra Dienz, double bass
and many more …

On the centenary of Pier Paolo PASOLINI’s birth, Stefano Gervasoni and Paolo Pachini are searching in images and voices for the junction point between barbarism and civilization, for human authenticity, the heart of Pasolini’s vision. With this homage we start into new vocal-instrumental spheres, which span the arc from traces of Franco-Flemish vocal polyphony by Josquin Desprez to the voice-acrobatic miniature dramas Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures by György Ligeti – the second centenerian. With this pioneer of modern music, we continue the discourse on vocal-instrumental expression opened with Pasolini – the voice wanders with precision away from the level of meaning towards a labyrinthine amalgamation of imaginary actions and exaggerated emotions. New spaces open up between these program points: contours melt, sounds rub and grind, pulsate, flicker, melt away, are torn apart. An interplay of near and far: the view from a distance into the microscopic world of sound, into its granularity and brittleness and ultimately into silence.

Prior to each concert, at 18:45,  Juri Giannini will discuss the pieces with the composers of the evening.

Dates in this series:

WED 23.11.2022 KH series 1 – PHACE | PASOLINI
TUE 31.01.2023 KH series 2 – PHACE | CHROMA
TUE 28.03.2023 KH series 3 – PHACE | BLUR
TUE 29.05.2023 KH series 4 – PHACE | NOUVELLES AVENTURES