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Binary Cities #7 Friday, October 16th 2009 8pm |
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The appearance of the Trio Fibonacci was made possible in part through a Travel Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. The appearance of Hideko Kawamoto andand Damon Waitkus was made possible in part through a grant form the Zellerbach Family Foundation. |
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| Trio Fibonacci (Canada) | ||
Formed in 1998, Trio Fibonacci is entirely devoted to the performance of new music for violin, cello and piano. The group takes its
name from the celebrated thirteenth century mathematician whose discoveries have influenced artistic creation over the centuries. In seven years of existence, Trio Fibonacci has won international recognition for their interpretations of works by composers such
as Pascal Dusapin, Michael Finnissy, Salvatore Sciarrino, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Charles Ives and Mauricio Kagel.
Born in France, Hugues Leclere studied with Catherine Collard before entering first named the Paris National Conservatory
(Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique), from which he graduated with high honors in piano, music theory, and chamber music. He performs more than 50 concerts a year, in recitals in France such as at the en France comme à la Cité de la Musique, au Festival d'Ile de France, Festival Présences de Radio France, piano à Riom, festival du Comminges, Festival Chopin à Nohant, and in venues around the world. He has been invited by different orchestras such as Camerata du Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre national de la Radio de Prague, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre de Minsk, Orchestre de Timisoara, l'Ensemble Itinéraire, etc.
The San Francisco International Art Festival’s mission is to promote the arts and San Francisco through production of their annual, multi-disciplinary festival that brings together the world community of artists and audiences.
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| Hideko Kawamoto | ||
Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly is inspired by the desert landscape described in Haruo Shibuya’s poem, Collision in the Desert. Born in Japan and
currently based in Portola Hills, CA, Hideko Kawamoto has received awards such as the Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" (1st Prize, Italy), Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition (2nd Prize, Italy), Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic & Sonic Art (Mention Award,
France), Ear 01 International Electroacoustic Music Composing (HonorableMention, Hungary) and Sonic Circuits International Festival Electronic Music Art (composition awards, USA). |
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| Damon Waitkus | ||
Composed in response to the onset of Alzheimers renders the musician’s
father increasingly isolated and nonverbal, Aphasia meditates on the border
between language and preverbal emotional component of vocal sounds that
induces simultaneous feelings of terror and fascination. Based in Alameda,
CA, Damon Waitkus has received awards such as the Elizabeth Mills Crother
Award for excellence in Composition from Mills College where he received an
MA. Waitkus actively records and performs with his experimental folk group
Jack o’ the Clock and plays banjo and hammer dulcimer with singer/songwriter
Eli Wise. His instrumental works have been performed by pianist Regina
Schaffer, The Quartet San Francisco, The Presidio Ensemble, The Providence
Mandolin Orchesra, MIT Wind Ensemble, the bass clarinet duo Sqwonk, and
others. |
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| Agnes Szelag | ||
Agnes Szelag is a composer, performer, and video/audio installation artist.? Her work explores the cognitive and aesthetic relationship of sound and visual media in chosen environments. In performance and composition she creates interactive schemes that ride the line between composition and improvisation. All her work deals with transformation. |
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| Laurie Radford | ||
Laurie Radford (Canada, 1958) creates music for diverse combinations of instruments, voices and electroacoustic media. His music has been presented at Biennale Musique en scène (France), Cantai Festival (Taiwan), Miami New Music Festival, Música Viva (Portugal), MusiMars (Montréal), Festival Encuentros (Argentina), Semana de Música Contemporánea (Cuenca, Ecuador), Earplay (San FranciscoA), and SAN Expo (Manchester, UK). Laurie Radford has taught at McGill University (Montréal), the University of Alberta, and City University (London, UK). British journalist Mark Dennis was present for the UK premiere of Radford’s trio, given by Trio Fibonacci in 2005, and wrote: “The evening finished with a premiere of a piece by Laurie Radford that placed huge demands on the players and combined the playing of the trio with various electronic techniques. The piece was a complete success as one entered a sound world in which time and space were challenged in a way that was difficult to precisely define.”» Back To Top |
| Serge Provost | ||
Serge Provost (Québec, 1952) studied at the Conservatoire de Montréal, the Conservatoire de Paris, then at the College de France with Pierre Boulez, broadening his skills in electro-acoustics at IRCAM from 1995 to 1996. Notable premieres of his works include: VENTIS-ARBORIS-VOCIS performed by the Arditti Quartet for Radio-France (Festival Présence, Paris); the opera LE VAMPIRE ET LA NYMPHOMANE ('Création de l'année' in Montréal); the melodrama L'ADORABLE VERROTIÈRE (special mention from the Jury, Italia Prize, 1993). “Some years ago I was in Venice in a church ornamented with magnificent monuments. On the floor of a small chapel I discovered a simple stone with the inscription: CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI 1567–1643. The humility of this tomb profoundly moved me. It was as if music was emanating from that stone, an ‘interior music’. Thus the idea for this work for the Trio Fibonacci came to me. The presence of the instruments on the stage together with the electronic music sets up an interaction: real–imaginary, from near to far, in time and space.” - Serge Provost» Back To Top |
