Biennale Music
53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
The program of the 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music was announced on June 16th by the President of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Baratta and by the Director of the Music section, Luca Francesconi. The Festival, titled The Body of Sound, will run in Venice 25th September to 3rd October 2009. The program includes 73 composers from around the world for 87 performances, 26 Italian premieres and 16 world premieres, alongside installations, meetings, workshops, and conferences.
53rd Intl. Festival of Contemporary Music
25 September > 3 October 2009
The next Festival will run 25th September to 3rd October 2009, directed by Luca Francesconi. The Biennale Musica wants to be a place where different musical languages meet, and where a critical comparison with significant experiences of the recent past is made. Accordingly, the Festival looks back at the centenary anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto, and is thus titled The Body of Sound.
53rd Intl. Festival of Contemporary Music
Main outline of the 53rd Festival
Edgar Varèse will run through the program of the entire Festival as a sort of fil rouge: most of his masterpieces, from Arcana to Ionisation, up to Integrales, Hyperprism, and Octandre will be put side by side with his younger 'acolytes' such as Ansgar Beste, Dimitri Kourliandski, and Suguru Goto. Also in the line-up the flamenco of Carmen Linares, music from the Balkans, and the blues from the roots of America.
