Noh × Contemporary Music - talk & concert series
In this project, ensemble-no, which was founded by Ryoko Aoki, will commission six well-known young international composers and will premiere their new works. The project includes four concerts that will be presented by each of six composers. In the first half of each concert, the composers will talk about their own work, and in the second a new piece will be performed. The talk by composers will give the audience a deeper understanding of this new world of contemporary music and Noh.
During last season, ensemble-no completed Vol. 1 of this project to some acclaim. This year Vol. 2 will be shown at an exciting new venue, SHIBAURA HOUSE in Tokyo, built by the well-known architect, Kazuyo Sejima.
■programme
Vol.1 2011.10.28 19:00- talk & concert Oliver Schneller
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Noh × Contemporary Music - talk & concert series
Vol.1 talk & concert - Oliver Schneller
1 talk : Oliver Schneller ＆ Ryoko Aoki
2 Oliver Schneller "new work" for Noh voice, percussion and electronics
(commissioned by ensemble-no 2011) (world premiere)
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Yoshiko Kanda (percussion)
■venue
5F Bird Room, SHIBAURA HOUSE
3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
■ticket
Vol. 1 ￥2000
Tickets sale will start one month before the performance.
■inquiries
NPO alfalfa http://alfalfalfa.net/
Tel. 03-6317-2927[13:00-18:00]
e-mail: info@alfalfalfa.net
presented by ensemble-no
managed by NPO alfalfa
supported by Minato prefecture grant for culture, Asahi Beer Arts Foundation
in collaboration with SHIBAURA HOUSE
in cooperation with Opernwerkstatt Ligerz and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Oliver Schneller was born in Cologne studied composition at Columbia University in New York where he completed his doctorate in composition with Tristan Murail in 2002. From 2002-2004 he worked in Paris as a "compositeur en recherche" at IRCAM where he also received important orientations from Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, George Benjamin and Jonathan Harvey.
The focus of Oliver Schneller's compositional work lies in the creation of networks between musical instruments, architectural spaces and live computer processing. Often his works include spatial parameters such as particular combinations of instruments and loud speakers distributed throughout the performance space. His works have been presented at numerous international festivals and have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, musikFabrik, Ictus and Court-Circuit.
Schneller has held residencies at Cincinnati Conservatory, Takefu Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg and is the recipient of the 2010 Siemens Award for Composition, the Fromm Prize (Harvard University), 2 ASCAP Awards, and fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, Columbia University and the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo. From 2009-2010 Schneller was on the composition faculty at Stuttgart Conservatory. Since 2011 he serves as professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music in Hannover.
Yoshiko Kanda (Percussion)
Born in 1970, studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
and Master's degree of the university with Dr.Makoto ARUGA and
Dr.Michiko TAKAHASHI.
Yoshiko whose main interest is in comptenporary music, played several concerto
for percussion by contemporary composers such as Maki ISHII and
Motoharu KAWASHIMA, with Japanese reading orchestras.
She has taken part in the Japan premier of a piece by
Brian Ferneyhough,the Akiyoshidai International Seminer and Festival for
Contemporary Music,and the Asian Composers' Legue Festival in Thailand, while has had recording sessions for broadcasting. She is currently working with young composers who write specially for her. Won the Scholarship Prize form Darmstad International Summer Festival for Contemporary Music in 1996 and 98, and was invited to the festival in 2000. Since 1996, she has been working on a series of her recital.
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