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Hans Joachim Hespos , Germany

languages: German, English

Composition & Project Management

Mr. Hespos will give daily lessons to all composers. He will concentrade on composition for solo instruments,compositions fo chamber ensembles and symphony orchestra opera and off-scene productions. He will talk about commissions and performances world wide. Important part of his lessons is theme of management - self editor, concert and project management. Mr. Hespos will also give
an open workshop for children from the region /together with pianist Ivan Siller/ and open lesson /together with Eniko Ginzery/.

Born in 1938, Hespos has since 1964 composed a huge number of works that are usually extreme even by the standards of the German New Music. Perhaps one of the most remarkable features of Hespos' music is that there would seem to have been no discernible process of development of technique or alteration in concerns during the last thirty years. Hespos writes as uncompromisingly today as he has always done and the unmediated forcefulness of his work remains almost without parallel even today.

His scores, be they verbal, graphic, more conventionally notated or some combination thereof, always constitute incitements to action rather than instructions to be executed neutrally. Inspired by Adorno and Artaud, each composition forms itself unfettered during the act of composition. Thus each work of any length would hardly be analysable as an artistic object. In Hespos' own words, he composes without knowing "whither it goes in the next moment, where it ends". This radical subjectivity should communicate itself to any audience of hespos' work, his aim being, to quote Artaud "To reach a point at which things must burst if there would be a new departure/beginning ... to lead the spirit to a frenzy, to a rising of its energies".

More information: www.hespos.info

 

Daniel Matej , Slovakia

languages: Slovak, English, German, French

Composition & Improvisation

Daniel Matej will give daily individual lessons for composers and lessons of improvisation for all participants. He would like to receive scores of the participants in advance. Composers have also a chance to compose a new piece during the week, which could be performed at the closing concert of the course. 'From open scores to free improvisation' - mastercourse for all performers and composers. The participants of free improvisation will study and rehearse the 'open scores' by Brown, Cage a o., as well as follow several strategies for structured and free improvisation. One concert is expected at the end of the course.

Daniel Matej, born 9 March 1963 in Bratislava

studies, scholarships and academic career

1983 - 1989 - studied music theory at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (AMDA) in Bratislava
1987 - 1992 - studied composition at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava with Ivan Parík
1988 - participant at International ISCM Composer's Seminars in Dolny Kazimierz (Poland) - with Luigi Nono, Luc Ferrari and others
1988 - 1989 - studied composition and analysis at Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Betsy Jolas
1990 - scholarship of the Music Fund Bratislava - founder and programme director of the international festival Evenings of New Music, since 1997 artistic director
1990 - gave lectures and led composition, improvisation and chamber music seminars and workshops at many universities and music academies, as well as summer schools and festivals (Royal Conservatory Copenhagen (1990), Berliner Akademie der Musik (1996), York University of Toronto (1996), Bowen Island Vancouver (2000), New Music Indaba, Grahamstown, South Africa (2001), Crescendo Summer Academy of Arts Sárospatak, Hungary (2005-2007), SLOTart festival Lubiaz, Poland (2002-2004, 2007), Janáček Academy of Music Brno (2005 and 2006), Royal Conservatory Gent (2007) and others
1990 - 1992 - studied composition at Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague with Louis Andriessen
1992 - participant at Dartington Summer Music School - studied electronic and environmental music with Trevor Wishart and Robert Worby
1994 - 1997 - postgraduate studies of composition at AMDA in Bratislava with Juraj Beneš
1995 - 1996 - "composer-in-residence" within DAAD Künstler Programm in Berlin
1996 - lectures on music theory, 20th century music and composition (since 2006 also electroacoustic and multimedia composition) at AMDA in Bratislava
2003 - 2007 head of the Department of Theory of Music (AMDA)
2004 - lecturer (docent) of composition (AMDA)

artistic and other professional activities and achievements

1987 - founding member of VENI ensemble (new music ensemble), artistic director since 1988
1988 - performed with VENI ensemble, VAPORI del CUORE (since 1994), don@u.com, OVER4tea (since 2004), co-operated and performed with many composers and performers (David Dramm, Anne La Berge, Christian Fennesz, Hilary Jeffery, Günter Müller, Chris Newman, John Oswald, Jon Rose, Elliott Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Daan Vandewalle and others) worked with visual artists (Pavol Rovenský, Dorota Sadovská, Tibor Szemzö, Ján Šicko, Zsigmond Vajay and others), choreographers (Monika Eertezni, Marta Poláková, Bill Young and others)
1994 - founding member of VAPORI del CUORE (ensemble focusing on the performance of open scores and improvisation)
1994 -1999 - regularly broadcasted in Radio Ragtime (New Music Studio) - of which he was the founder
1995, 2000, 2004 - curated international composition projects for the festival EVENINGS OF NEW MUSIC: "morceaux en forme de poire" for the SATIE-CITY festival (EVENINGS OF NEW MUSIC '95), B-A-C-H, BALETTI PER PIANOFORTE, CELLO, OFFERTORIUM, OLD MASTER'S VOICE, PLUGGED 1-5 and TRANSCRIPTIONS for the "250 YEARS AFTER" project (EVENINGS OF NEW MUSIC '00), and TONE ROADS for the "130 Years After" project (EVENINGS OF NEW MUSIC '04)
2003 - president of the ISCM Slovak Section
2004 - founding member of don@u.com (austrian-slovakian improvisation ensemble), founding member of OVER4tea (ensemble focusing on structured improvisation with video-art)

commissions

VENI ensemble, Arcana Ensemble, Electronic Music Foundation, Hilliard Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, VAPORI del CUORE, Zivatar ensemble etc.

work performances in

Amsterdam, Berlin, Bratislava, Brno, Copenhagen, Den Haag, Graz, Paris, Perugia, Prague, Stuttgart, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, etc.

his music was broadcast in

Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, U.S.A., etc.

recordings for

Hessische Rundfunk, ORF, Slovak Radio, Slovak Television, etc.

More information: www.hc.sk , www.pozon.sk/matej , www.vecery.info , www.donau.k6.sk , www.musiktexte.de

 

Patricio Diaz , USA/Spain

languages: English, Spanish

Viola and Baroque Viola

The Art of Practicing: A guide to Self-Empowerment

Mr. Diaz will give daily lesson to all violist.
Participants can choose the repertoire from the Spanish Cantigas of the XII century Renaissance and Baroque to the new music of the XX and XXI century (including Bartok, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Kodaly etc.) Participants are encouraged to send their repertoire and will decide together with Mr. Diaz, what will be the best choice to work on during the course.
His daily lessons will include the Contemporary techniques to understand early music and Early Music techniques to understand the XXI century. He will put accent on the Basic Work Process, Control and Fast Tempos, strategies for improving Intonation, Memory and the special theme will be "The third Hand: The Source of Control" A big interest of Mr. Diaz is music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. He will give a special lecture "Understanding J. S. Bach in the XXI century: The Suites " to all participants.

Patricio Diaz is from Madrid, Spain, where he studied viola at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, he then moved to Moscow where he studied at the "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory with F. Druzhinin and A. Babrovsky, and string quartet with M. Kopelman. With a scholarship from the Spanish government, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music and at the University of Massachusetts with Karen Ritscher where he received a Master's in music performance.

After being a member of the Radio and Television Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain, he moved to NY where he now lives and has an active career both as a performer playing with (among others) the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Ballet Orchestra, American Symphony, and as a teacher coordinating the String department of United Nations International School.

Mr. Diaz dedicates significant attention to the study and performance of contemporary music. He has toured Japan, USA and Europe with the "Cervantes" ensemble playing contemporary Spanish music and is in the process of recording a CD of French new music for viola solo.

Mr. Diaz also specializes in the performance of early music and regularly plays with New York Collegium, Concert Royal and the American Classical Symphony.

 

Timo Kinnunen , Finland

languages: English, Finnish

Accordion

Improvisation

Mr. Kinnunen will give daily lessons to all accordionists.
His repertoire includes classical and contemporary, solo and chamber music pieces. He is well known for working intensively with different composers. He will also introduce himself as organizer of different festivals, competitions and cultural events.

After having won the modern World Accordion Championship only at the age of sixteen, Mr. Timo Kinnunen started his international career. He works continuously as an accordion soloist and a as chamber musician in different ensembles in Finland and abroad performing contemporary, classical, improvised, and entertaining music. This year he is playing almost 40 concerts, including concerts in Finland, Sweden, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Tokyo, Fukujama and Sapporo. Mr. Kinnunen´s artist image and his virtuosity on the accordion have inspired many composers to create very interesting works for this instrument.

Timo Kinnunen has premiered tens of solo and chamber music works and been cooperating with e.g. John Cage and Astor Piazzolla. Next he will premiere works of f.ex. Jouni Kaipainen, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Aspasia Nasopoulou, Jan Sandström, Tapio Tuomela, David Dramm, Uljas Pulkkis, Tomi Räisänen, Perttu Haapanen, Guus Janssen. With sopranos Helena Juntunen, Charlotte Riejdik and Lisa Fornhammar he has performed new lied music, and played as a soloist with many symphony orchestras and UMO Jazz Orchestra. Since the establishment of Camus Nova ensemble he acts as a primus motor for the group. The highly innovative duo palla and pallas was created by Timo Kinnunen and mezzo-soprano / violinist Virpi Räisänen-Midth in 2006. He has recently toured with f.ex. following world-famous ensembles and artists: Mondriaan string quartet, Temprera Quartet, percussionist Michael Gould, sho-player and saxophonist Naomi Sato, cellist Taco Kooistra, pianist Iiro Rantala and violinist Heleen Hulst.

After having completed his studies in Sibelius Academy, Timo Kinnunen continued his studies under Mogens Ellegaard in Copenhagen, and Hugo North in Trossingen, Germany. Under Belgian Luc Hoebeken he got acquainted with creative regional development processes.

Besides his concert activity, Mr. Timo Kinnunen teaches classical accordion, improvisation and new chamber music at the Oulu Conservatory and the Oulu Polytechnic, School of Music, Dance and Media. He also writes school books for accordion players.

Mr. Kinnunen has enriched Finnish Cultural life with many projects. He was 22 years old as he founded an international festival and summer academy called Time of Music (Musiikin Aika) in his home town Viitasaari, which is one of the world's foremost festival of new music. In the nineties he created and led an international festival named OULULUO in his present place of domicile Oulu. This festival concentrated on dialog between art and technology. At the moment Mr. Timo Kinnunen works also as an artistic director of Poison City Festival, Cultura Creativa and International Pan Accordion composition contest.

 

Ronald Šebesta , Slovakia

languages: Slovak, English, French

Clarinet, Bassclarinet, Basset Horn

Improvisation

Mr. Šebesta will give daily lessons to all clarinetists.
Participants are welcome to play any repertoire of any historical period plus a chamber music repertoire for clarinet. Mr. Šebesta will also teach how to improvise by playing a single voice instrument. Part of his lectures is presentation of basset horn of 18th century and literature written for the instrument.

education

1987 - Diploma, Bratislava Conservatory
1993 - Diploma, Academy of Music and Drama, Bratislava
8 months study, Boulogne Conservatory, France
Postgraduate study at the Academy of Music and Drama,Bratislava

career

Co-founder, VENI ensemble for contemporary music
1988 - concerts in Bratislava (Evenings of New Music Festival), Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Perugia, Bucharest
Projects (workshops and concerts) with Younghi Pagh Paan, Siegfried Palm, Hans Deinzer, Louis Andriessen, James Tenney, Hugh Davies
Solo performance of Giacinto Scelsi´s Kya
1990 - VENI ensemble recording for Der Hessische Rundfunk in Frankfurt
1993 - 1st Clarinettist, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
1993 - Solo performance at Wien Modern Festival
1994 - Co-founder, VAPORI del CUORE, group for improvised music
1994 - Projects (performances) with David Dramm, Nic Collins, Daan Vandevalle, Chris Newman, Alfred Zimmerlin, Günter Müller, Otomo Yoshihide, John Oswald, Eliot Sharp.
Solo performance of Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets
1995, 2002 - 1st Clarinet, Cappella Istropolitana, chamber orchestra of city Bratislava
1995 - Co-founder, OPERA APERTA ensemble, for classical and contemporary chamber music
1997 - concerts in Bratislava, Brno, Prague, Katowice, Krakow, Schloss Grafenegg, Kiel ; Solo performances of Mozart Clarinet Concerto
1997 - Co-founder LOTZ trio of 18th century basset horns
2004- concerts in Cork (IRL), Arnsberg (D), Bratislava
Co-founder DON@U.com for improvised music
2004 - concerts in Vienna (Wiener Festwochen), Bratislava

recordings

3 CDs of VENI ensemble, 1990, 1992, 1995 (with music by Daniel Matej)
2000 - Cooperation of OPERA APERTA ensemble on CD with music by Peter Zagar
2002 - CD of OPERA APERTA ensemble ("Postminimal set")
2003 - CD of VAPORI del CUORE ("Alpine songs")
2007 - CD of DON@U.com (Lieder ohne Worte)

publications

Clarinet quintet as a formation of chamber music and its place in the chamber music of classical-romantical tradition, diploma thesis, 1993
The story of clarinet - virtuality and reality, diploma thesis, 2007

membership

International Society for Contemporary Music, Slovak section

More information: www.donau.k6.sk , www.lotztrio.com

 

Enikö Ginzery , Slovakia

languages: Slovak, German, English, Hungarian

Cimbalom and Salterio

The Cimbalom as the Unique Concert Instrument

Ms. Ginzery will introduce the sound and technique possibilities of the cimbalom and of the salterio and give daily lessons to all participants of her course. Participants can choose repertoire from any historical period. She will talk about early music repertoire
(14. - 18. century) and also about interpretation of baroque music on the cimbalom. Questions of articulation and ornaments, using the pedal in early music, etc., will also be discussed. She is very much interested in original repertoire for the Salterio, like compositions of A.Conti, M.Chiesa, P.Salulini, and C.Monza. Participants are also welcome to play contemporary music
for the cimbalom, mainly compositions by Gy.Kurtág, Z.Jeney, I.Láng, J.Beneš, V.Bokes, J.Dadák, A.Pek, A.Hába, and H.-J.Hespos.

Enikö Ginzery is a virtuoso cimbalom player known for her imaginative and innovative style. She presents the cimbalom as a full-fledged concert instrument. Enikö was born in Bratislava, Slovakia and her musical talent was noticed at an early age. She first started to play the violin; however, very soon she changed to the cimbalom, which became her favorite instrument. From 1989 to 1995 Enikö studied cimbalom at the Conservatory of Bratislava, and then she continued her studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. Next she enrolled at the “Hochschule für Musik Saar“ in Saarbrücken, Germany for a postgraduate study of contemporary music interpretation. She graduated with honors in 2005. During her studies Enikö had many excellent teachers, among them Beata Cecková, Ludmila Dadáková, Ilona Szeverényi Gerencsér, Stefan Litwin, and Yukiko Sugawara.

In 1995 she obtained an award as best participant of the International Youth Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She became the winner/laureate of the International Cimbalom Competition of 1997 in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic. For three consecutive years (1997-1999) she participated in interpretation courses given by György Kurtág. In 1998 Enikö attended an interpretation course of early music in Szombathely, Hungary with Emilio Moreno and Anneke Boeke. She also took part in interpretation master classes of contemporary music with Moritz Eggert, Herbert Henck, Christof Keller, Theo Brandmüller, Isao Nakamura, Uli Wiget and Nicolas Hodges (International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany).

Since 1995 Enikö has regularly given solo performances and has been also accompanied by orchestras throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra of Bratislava, the Bratislava Chamber Opera Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, SR Radio Orchestra in Saarbrücken, SWR Radio Orchestra in Freiburg, SWR Radio Orchestra in Stuttgart, Sinfonietta Dresden, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal, Solamente Naturali and the Melos Ethos Ensemble.

She gave solo concerts at several important international festivals of contem¬porary music: In Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovakia; Krakow, Poland; Forbach, France; Saarbrücken, Kassel, Stuttgart, Dresden, Darmstadt, and Berlin in Germany; Luck, Ukraine; Budapest, Hungary; New York, NY and Princeton, NJ in the USA.

The wide scope of her repertoire comprises compositions from the middle ages to the present time. It includes pieces by medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary composers. Among these are original pieces for the Saltero -- the usual designation for the cimbalom in the 16th to the 18th century -- and also her transcriptions of other pieces from this period.

Her main interest is, however, the interpretation of works of contemporary composers, either for solo cimbalom, or for instrumental groups. Enikö’s virtuosity and the exciting sound and expression possibilities of her instrument inspired several contemporary composers to create original pieces for cimbalom alone or in combination with other instruments or electronic sound.

Over the past several seasons she has premiered works by well known composers as Ilja Zeljenka, Juraj Beneš, Juraj Pospíšil, Vladimír Bokes, Michal Košut, Anton Steinecker, Peter Machajdík, Dániel Biro, Pál Károlyi, Patricia Alessandrini, Ted Coffey, Chiel Meijering, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Theo Brandmüller, Jean Ives Bosseur, Christian Wolff, Luigi Manfrin, István Láng, Art-Oliver Simon, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Péter Kőszeghy,Petr Pokorný, Zsigmond Szathmáry.

Enikö performs chamber music with a wide circle of colleagues. In 2007, together with Matsumoto Mariko, she founded the Dulci-Melos violin-cimbalom duo, and she is also founding member of a quartet „Kozmosz“ with the unique instrumental combination of cimbalom, recorder, accordion and percussion.

In 2001 Enikö recorded her first solo CD album: “Contemporary music for cimbalom”.

More information: www.ginzery.com

 

Ivan Šiller , Slovakia

languages: Slovak, English

Piano

Chamber Music

Ivan Šiller will give daily individual lessons to pianists and chamber music ensembles. Participants can choose repertoire from any historical period of music. He is very much interested in music of J.S. Bach, F. Schubert and Ch. Ives.
Mr. Šiller will introduce to his students special techniques of piano playing and show the posibility of instrument. On the lecture he will concentrate on music of Erik Satie, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, György Kurtág and Alexander Skriabin. During the summer course he will also give workshop for children from the region together with Joachim Hespos.

Ivan Šiller was studying piano with Milica Kailingová (Music School of Ludovít Rajter in Bratislava), privately with Daniel Buranovský, Daniela Varínska (Faculty of Music and Dance of the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava) and Daan Vandewalle (Royal Conservatory Gent, Belgium). Between the years 1995 - 1998 he took masterclasses with Marián Lapšanský, Peter Toperczer and Eugen Indjic. He was scholarship holder of Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Music Darmstadt (studying with Kaya Haan, Nicolas Hodges and Uli Wiget) and in 2005 obtained prestigious scholarship of Tanglewood Music Center in USA (piano – Emanuel Ax, Joseph Kalichstein, Claude Frank; chamber music – Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, Ursula Oppens and Timothy Genis). In 2007 he became grantee of international artistic center Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.

After graduating from Royal Conservatory he continued his studies of chamber music with Jan Michiels at the postgraduate institut Orpheus (Gent). During the stay at the Royal Conservatory Gent he was also taking classes of conducting ( Wim Belaen) and old music (John Whitelaw). Ivan became winner of Slovak national competition in chamber music groups (piano duo with Lenka Bálintová), winner of piano competition - Pál Kadoša and holder of price for the best acompaniest of singer at the European Music Competition for Youth in Hamburg (soprano - Adriana Kučerová).

Apart from solo recitals he is regulary giving concerts with different chamber music partners. Mainly with pianist Andrea Mudroňová, cellist Jozef Lupták, singer Gerrie de Vries and Adriana Kučerová, clarinetist Pedro Guridi and violinist Paul Klinck. He is cooperating with various ensembles and orchestras: Bratislava Chamber soloists, Phoenix ensemble, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Veni ensemble, Ostravská banda etc.

Important part of Ivan´s musical activities is cooperation with Slovak and foreign contemporary composers (Daniel Matej, Peter Zagar, Jevgenij Iršai, Marián Lejava, Boško Milakovič, Marcel Séneši, Yehudi Wyner, Gunther Schuller, Louis Andriessen, John Rose).

He performed at the festivals: Evenings of New Music, Orfeus, Convergence, Melos – Etos,Week of Contemporary Music Gent, Festival of Philipe Herreweghe, Ostrava New Music Days, Festival van Vlaanderen, Steinway festival Bijloke. He gives concerts in different European countries mostly in Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, Czech republic, Great Britain and the USA.

In 2001 he participated on production of Slovak opera in Luxemburg „Face to Face“ composed by Slovak composers Lubomír Burgr and Martin Burlas. He collaborated with music-theater companies Walpurgis (Antverpen) and Wederzijds (Amsterdam) on new production introducing music and life of American composer Charles Ives.

Along with the carrier of professional pianist Ivan is also an initiator and organizer of different musical projects. During his studies at the Royal Conservatory Gent he realized Festival of chamber music and Evening of Slovak music. In partnership with the Royal Netherlands Embassy he realized project Holland Music Winter. He is founder and artistic director of festival Space – concentrated on contemporary music. Ivan pays attention also to amateur audience and serches for the ways to approach them with classical music. His projects Meetings and cycle Chamber concerts connected music and introducing word and in this way helped the audience better to understand what they are listening to. In collaboration with Milica Kailingova created projects for children Music of the last century , where he introduce and brings closer 20th century music to children interactive way. Together with Galery in Nitra he realizes cycle of chamber music concerts Galery of Music.

Since 2004 he is conductor of youth choir Eben Ezer and children choir Kvapôčky. In the following season he will participate at music festivals in Slovakia and abroad, House concerts, chamber and solo recitals and organize several projects in Slovakia. Activities of Ivan Šiller were appreciated by Ministry of Educations of Slovak Republic and awarded by plaquete of St.Gorazd.

More information: www.hc.sk , www.festivalspace.sk