Salon Concert Series
An exclusive home concert featuring 21st Century music from France.

Trio Fibonacci performs French music by:
Pascal Dusapin, Christophe Bertrand,
Marc Monnet & Mark André.
followed by a reception with the artists,
catered by "La Boulange".

Sunday, October 18th 5pm
Pacific Heights, San Francisco

  

The Salon Concert Series was made possible in part through support from the Cultural Services of the French Consulate in San Francisco.

                          

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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Pascal Dusapin (France, 1955) studied fine art, science and aesthetics at the Sorbonne in Paris. One of France's best-known living composers his works have been performed worldwide. At the suggestion of Franco Donatoni he attended the seminars of Iannis Xenakis from 1974 until 1978. Both composers had a deep influence on his early works but he soon developed his own style based on the use of microtonality and the superposition of several atonal lines, creating a kind of "atonal heterophony". Dusapin also uses archaïc-sounding scales consisting of four notes filling in the interval of a perfect fifth e.g. A - Bb - D- E or C - D - F - G. In these scales, the 2nd and 3rd degree are often a third apart which sets them apart from the traditional tetrachords. His melodies have a vocal quality hence Dusapin's predilection for instruments that can imitate the human voice (ie. wind bowed string instruments) and his initial reluctance to write for the piano. A prolific composer, he often draws his inspiration from different artistic disciplines such as jazz, visual arts, or poetry.

Commissioned by the association Musique Nouvelle en Liberté and the Ravel Academy in Saint-Jean de Luz for its thirtieth anniversary, Trio no.1 was premiered in September 1997 in Paris. Following its adaptation, at the request of the composer’s friend Armand Angster, for clarinet, cello and piano, the work was renamed Trio Rombach, from the name of the village where Dusapin habitually spends his summer holidays and where the adaptation was realised in the summers of 1997 and 1998. Trio Fibonacci worked with Dusapin on his trio during his residency at the Domaine Forget summer festival in Quebec in 2002, and he subsequently arranged his viola piece In Nomine for Trio Fibonacci violinist Julie-Anne Derome, thus creating his only work for violin solo.

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Christophe Bertrand was born on 1981. After obtaining first prizes in piano and chamber music at the Strasbourg National Conservatory (C.N.R.) (where he studied with Laurent CABASSO, Michèle RENOUL, Armand ANGSTER), he performs and records with Ensemble Accroche-Note and Ensemble In Extremis (which he co-founded). With them, he collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele, Pascal DUSAPIN, Michael JARRELL, Mark ANDRE, Wolfgang RIHM, among others.

He began studying composition since 1996 with Ivan FEDELE at the C.N.R. of Strasbourg, and obtained in 2000 his composition diploma unanimously with honours. During that same year, the Musica Festival dedicated a concert to him, and he attended the Cursus annuel de composition et d'informatique musicale (2000-2001) at the IRCAM, where he worked among others with Philippe HUREL, Tristan MURAIL, Brian FERNEYHOUGH, and Jonathan HARVEY.

His compositions, conducted among others by Pierre BOULEZ, Jonathan NOTT, Hannu LINTU, or Marc ALBRECHT have been performed by prestigious ensembles and soloists:

Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Arditti Quartet, Accroche Note, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Court-Circuit, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble Intégrales, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Musicatreize, Mandelring Quaret, Avanti!, etc ; Garth KNOX, Juliette HUREL, Jan MICHIELS, Marc COPPEY, etc.

After « classical » music studies, from the Paris Conservatory to the Musikhochschule in Koln with Mauricio Kagel, Marc Monnet is a composer difficult to define. Definitely contemporary, always inventing, he goes from the instrumental « classic » writing, to the most innovating research for an opera, which only preserves its name. He passes through the sound exploitation proposed by electronics, up to the transformations realised at the IRCAM (Paris) for his last opera Fragments. He has worked together with Jean Louis Barrault for the music of his opening show at the Theatre du Rond Point in Paris ; with Dominique Bagouet who used his music and title « Fantasia Semplice » for his ballet premiered at the Opera de Paris (Garnier) ; with Karin Saporta for the music of a film for the Musée d’Orsay « Le Cirque » (the Circus) ; with Anne Torres for a show entitled « l’Exercice de la Bataille » (the exercice of the battle). With his company Attentat he has premiered some operas whose form is new, for the voice, the way of playing with body and the absence of text. The achievement of this work is realised in the frame of the Festival Musica in Strasbourg and the Festival d’Automne in Paris with « Fragments », in collaboration with IRCAM . He is actually writing an opera, commissioned by the Opera National de Strasbourg for September 2005.

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Mark Andre studied composition, counterpoint, harmony, analysis, and musical research at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), where his teachers included Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey. 1994 After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours), he took a doctorate in musicology with a dissertation on “Le compossible musical de l'Ars subtilior. Mark Andre has written works commissioned by the Ensemble Modern, ensemble recherche, Trio Accanto, Klangforum Wien, KNM Berlin, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Alternance, EIC, and others. Mark Andre has teaching appointments at the Conservatoire National (Strasbourg) and Frankfurt Musikhochschule. He lives in Berlin. "Mark Andre: iv2" for unaccompanied cello comes from a chamber music cycle, based on nonharmonic, harmonic, and noise-like sounds.

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