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10 Sep
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Opening concert
The Gaudeamus Music Week is an internationally renowned festival for young composers and new music. This opening concert is also the ‘inaugural concert’ of Hertz, the new concert hall in the recently opened TivoliVredenburg music centre.
The programme features two young composers, Benjamin Scheuer and Francisco Castillo, selected by Gaudeamus for its encouragement award and two former winners of the Prize, Unsuk Chin and Sampo Haapamäki.
The programme features two young composers, Benjamin Scheuer and Francisco Castillo, selected by Gaudeamus for its encouragement award and two former winners of the Prize, Unsuk Chin and Sampo Haapamäki.
Cantatrix Sopranica is a dreamy, vocal composition in which Chin flits like a fairy through a musical wonderland. Scheuer’s composition is youthful and charming with its playful and inventive touches (watch out for the rubber piglets!). Castillo compares his work with a cubist painting, in which material is reorganised to reveal a new, distorted form. In 2004 the Finnish composer Haapamäki won the Gaudeamus Prize for Signature. The programme concludes with the première of Ørjan Matre’s Violin concerto, which combines tradition and innovation with a distinctively Norwegian flavour.
In 2012 Asko|Schönberg gave the first performance of Kate Moore’s Days and Nature. She has arranged the piece especially for this late-night concert (11pm), giving the cello a leading role.
Artists
BENJAMIN SCHEUER
Absurde Apparate
FRANCISCO CASTILLO
Nealíka
ØRJAN MATRE
Violin concerto (première)
SAMPO HAAPAMÄKI
Signature
UNSUK CHIN
Cantatrix sopranica
ASKO|SCHÖNBERG
conductor Christian Karlsen
VocaalLAB: counter-tenor James Hall, sopraan Natasha Young, Eléonore Lemaire
violin Peter Herresthal
11 PM
KATE MOORE
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto
ASKO|SCHÖNBERG
conductor Christian Karlsen
cello Ashley Bathgate
Dates
10 Sep 14
Wed
20:00
20:00
TivoliVredenburg