Calendar of Events
57th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Another Voice, Another Space
Director: Ivan Fedele
Venice, 4 > 13 October 2013
with the support of the Regione del Veneto
Another Voice, Another Space
Director: Ivan Fedele
Venice, 4 > 13 October 2013
with the support of the Regione del Veneto
Friday 4 October
3:00 pm – Palazzo del Cinema, Venice Lido
ARDITTI QUARTET
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Helicopter String Quartet (1992-93, 31’)
Irvine Arditti violin
Ashot Sarkissjan violin
Ralf Ehlers viola
Lucas Fels cello
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
SILVER LION – FONDAZIONE SPINOLA BANNA PER L’ARTE
Awards Ceremony
ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO LA FENICE
LES PERCUSSIONS DE STRASBOURG
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931) Glorious Percussions for percussion ensemble and orchestra (2008, 38’) Italian premiere
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) Symphony no. 3 (1981-83, 28’)
John Axelrod conductor
Keiko Nakamura, Claude Ferrier, Bernard Lesage, François Papirer, Olaf Tzschoppe: percussion
Saturday 5 october
3:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
ARDITTI QUARTET
Evis Sammoutis (1979) Rhymes (2012, 9’) Italian premiere
Rebecca Saunders (1967) Fletch (2012, 15’) Italian premiere
Andrea Portera (1973) Grado (2013, 14’) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
Elliott Carter (1908–2012) String Quartet no. 5 (1995, 21’)
Irvine Arditti violin
Ashot Sarkissjan violin
Ralf Ehlers viola
Lucas Fels cello
5:15 pm – Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
VISIONI / ENSEMBLE L'IMAGINAIRE
a project by Eric Maestri
Daniele Ghisi (1984) Visioni parte I for electroacoustic device (2013, 25’) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
Eric Maestri (1980) Visioni parte II for ensemble and electroacoustic device (2012-2013, new version, 25’) world premiere
Keiko Murakami flute
Philippe Koerper saxophone
Maxime Springer piano
Olivier Maurel percussion
stage direction Chiara Villa
lighting design Chiara Villa and Victor Egéa
ligths direction Victor Egéa
sound direction Matthieu Zisswiller
objects Olivier Perriquet
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Epiphanies for female voice and orchestra (1991, 30’)
Claudio Ambrosini (1948) Fonofania for orchestra and children's choir (2013, 10’) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Rendering for orchestra (1990, 35’)
Valentina Coladonato soprano
Teatro Comunale di Bologna children's choir
Roberto Abbado conductor
in collaboration with Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Sunday 6 October
12:00 pm (noon) – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
DANIELE ROCCATO double bass
Sofia Gubaidulina Eight Etudes (Preludes) for double bass solo (1974/rev. 2009, 21’)
Pantomime for double bass and piano (1966, 10’)
Sonata for double bass and piano (1975, 15’)
In croce for double bass and bayan (1979/rev.1991, 2008, 18’)
Fabrizio Ottaviucci piano
Massimiliano Pitocco bayan
3:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
COLLETTIVO /NU/THING
QUARTETTO MAURICE
Usavich Episodio 2 - Time for Work (1’30”)
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) Tony Blair 07_07_2005 version for video and flute (2010, 3’35’’) from Piccoli Studi sul Potere
Kristian Ireland (1975) Clearing I for string quartet (2007, 10’)
Emanuele Casale (1974) Composizione for voice on a text by Biagio Guerrera (1997, 9’)
Valerio Murat (1976) Coppi for string quartet, electronics and video (2006, 7’)
Chris Swithinbank (1988) All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have for soprano and 2 violins (2012, 6’)
Simon Steen-Andersen (1976) Next to Beside Besides #0+4 for cello and snare drum (2003, 4’30”)
Usavich Episodio 6 - Time for Visitors (1’30”)
Simon Steen-Andersen (1976) Study for String Instrument #2 for cello and whammy pedal (2009, 6’)
Aurélio Edler-Copes (1976) Interférence for electronics and video (2012, 4’ 50’’)
Mario Diaz de León (1979) Trembling Time II for string trio (2009, 10’)
Usavich Episodio 5 - Time for Dancing (1’30’’)
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (1960) Barack Hussein Obama 6_04_2009 version for video and cello (2010, 3’47’’) from Piccoli Studi sul Potere
Laura Catrani voice (Swithinbank, Casale)
Igor Caiazza percussion and whammy pedal (Steen-Andersen)
Daniele Ruggieri flute (Ciardi)
Carlo Teodoro cello (Ciardi)
Georgia Privitera violin
Laura Bertolino violin
Leila Weber viola
Aline Privitera cello
5:15 pm – Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
TRIO ARBÓS
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Tierkreis (Zodiac) version for piano, violin, cello, electronics (1974-1975, 26’) world premiere of the new version
Bryan Wolf (1960) …senza ritorno
senza rammarico… for piano, violin, cello, electronics (2013, 23’) world premiere - commissioned by Trio Arbós
Franco Venturini (1977) Dàimones for piano, violin, cello (2013, 15’) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
Juan Carlos Garvayo piano
Miguel Borrego violin
José Miguel Gómez cello
Bryan Wolf sound projection
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
LES PERCUSSIONS DE STRASBOURG
Francesco Filidei (1973) I funerali dell'anarchico Serantini (2006, 11’)
Alessandro Solbiati (1956) Thai song (2009, 16’)
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000) Darkness (1984, 12’)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Persephassa (1969, 24’)
Keiko Nakamura, Claude Ferrier, Bernard Lesage, Minh-Tam Nguyen, François Papirer, Olaf Tzschoppe: percussion
Monday 7 October
12:00 pm (noon) – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
MICHELE MARELLI basset horn and clarinet
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Evas Spiegel for basset horn (1984, 4’)
Susani for basset horn solo (1984, 7’)
Kaija Saariaho (1952) Duft for clarinet solo (2012, 10’) Italian premiere
György Kurtág (1926) In Nomine – all'ongherese for basset horn solo (2001/rev. 2013, 5’) world premiere (courtesy of György Kurtág and Editio Musica Budapest)
Oscar Bianchi (1975) De profundis for basset horn solo (2012, 8’) world premiere
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934) The Seven Brightnesses for clarinet solo (1975, 6’)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Traum-Formel for basset horn solo (1981, 9’)
5:15 pm – Sala delle Colonne di Ca’ Giustinian
KAIROS QUARTETT
Marino Baratello (1951) Quartetto d’archi n. 2 Danza di Hagoromo (2011, 9’)
Michele dall’Ongaro (1957) Quartetto n. 6 (2011-2012, 10’)
David Robert Rusconi (1976) De Arte Respirandi (2010, 24’)
Giampaolo Coral (1944-2011) Raps XI for string quartet (1989/rev. 1991, 10’) Italian premiere
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953) String Quartet no. 2 (1998, 18’)
Simone Heilgendorff viola
Claudius von Wrochem cello
Stefan Häussler violin
Wolfgang Bender violin
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
ORCHESTRA DI PADOVA E DEL VENETO
Alessandro Solbiati (1956) Nora for cimbalom and orchestra (2008, 14’)
Gabriele Manca (1957) Dialoghi con la terra for piano, wind instruments, percussions and double bass (2011, 24’)
Matteo Franceschini (1979) La grammatica del soffio for basset horn and orchestra (2011, 15’)
Mayumi Orai cimbalom
Alfonso Alberti piano
Michele Marelli basset horn
Andrea Pestalozza conductor
in collaboration with Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Tuesday 8 October
3:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne - Ca’ Giustinian
CHRISTOPHE DESJARDINS viola
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Sequenza VI for viola (1967, 12’)
Philippe Manoury (1952) Partita I for viola and electronics (2006, 43’)
Christophe Lebreton (Grame) electronics
5:15 and 8:00 pm - Teatro alle Tese
HOMOIOMÈREIA
o della mutazione computazionale
opera-performance for percussion devices, electronics and automata
concept, conduction, music Pietro Luca Congedo
Pietro Luca Congedo percussion devices, prosthesis and automata, elettrophonie
Paolo Brandi sound direction and programming
Flavio Astorino electromechanical engineering
Roberto Mucchiut light design and videos
7:00 pm – Teatro Malibran
TEATRO MUSICALE
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) Aspern Singspiel in two acts (1978, 1h 40’)
libretto Giorgio Marini and Salvatore Sciarrino
Zuzana Marková a singer
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice
Marco Angius conductor
Università IUAV di Venezia direction, scenes, costumes and lights
in collaboration with Teatro La Fenice
repeated performance on Thursday 10 October
8:00 pm – Conservatoire B. Marcello
VIVA VERDI
with the musicians of the Venice, Rovigo and Vicenza Conservatories
direction Francesco Bellotto
in collaboration with Conservatorio B. Marcello
repeated performances on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 October
Wednesday 9 October
3:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
DAVID MOSS
More voices in Venice
David Moss voice and texts
Sdeng/Francesco Canavese and Francesco Giomi sound & live electronics
production Tempo Reale, Lunatica Festival, Castello Malaspina di Fosdinovo
8:00 pm – Conservatoire B. Marcello
VIVA VERDI
with the musicians of the Venice, Rovigo and Vicenza Conservatories
direction Francesco Bellotto
in collaboration with Conservatorio B. Marcello
repeated performance
8.00 pm – Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
TEATRO MUSICALE
Vittorio Montalti (1984) L’arte e la maniera di affrontare il proprio capo per chiedergli un aumento opera for 3 voices, ensemble and electronics from a text by Georges Perec (2013) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
libretto Giuliano Compagno
Ljuba Bergamelli soprano
Salvatore Grigoli baritone
Jo Bulitt performer
Raffaele Grimaldi (1980) La macchina opera for 3 voices, 2 actors and ensemble (2013) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia
libretto Diego Giordano
Irene Favro soprano
Stephanie Lewis mezzosoprano
Edoardo Hurtado tenor
Jo Bulitt performer
Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto
Mario Ancillotti conductor
Giancarlo Cauteruccio direction and scenography
Massimo Bevilacqua costumes
co-production la Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Studio di Scandicci
in collaboration with Maggio Formazione – Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Thursday 10 October
3:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
MDI ENSEMBLE
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) Lotuses for flute and string trio (1992, 17’)
Run Before Lightning for flute and piano (2004, 8’)
Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) Quattro Fantasie for ensemble (1963, 25’)
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) Triple Duo (1983, 20’)
Yoichi Sugiyama conductor
5:15 pm – Teatro alle Tese
LA LONTANANZA: 21ST CENTURY CORI SPEZZATI
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Lamento della Ninfa (from Madrigali, Libro VIII, 1638), rewriting by Ji Youn Kang (1977) for Wave Field Synthesis and soprano
Luigi Nono (1924–1990) La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1989), rewriting by Wouter Snoei (1977) for Wave Field Synthesis and violin
Ji Youn Kang (1977) new creation for Wave Field Synthesis (2013) world premiere - commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia and The Game of Life Foundation
Barbara Lüneburg violin (Nono)
Roberta Mameli soprano (Monteverdi)
Erwin Roebroeks and The Game of Life Foundation concept and program
7:00 pm – Teatro Malibran
TEATRO MUSICALE
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) Aspern Singspiel in two acts (1978, 1h 40’)
libretto Giorgio Marini and Salvatore Sciarrino
Zuzana Marková a singer
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice
Marco Angius conductor
Università IUAV di Venezia direction, scenes, costumes and lights
in collaboration with Teatro La Fenice
repeated performance
8:00 pm – Conservatoire B. Marcello
VIVA VERDI
with the musicians of the Venice, Rovigo and Vicenza Conservatories
direction Francesco Bellotto
in collaboration with Conservatorio B. Marcello
repeated performance
8:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN STUTTGART
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566-1613) Madrigali
Non t’amo (from Libro III)
Io tacerò / Invan dunque
Sparge la morte
Moro, e mentre sospiro / Quando di lui (from Libro IV)
Se vi duol
Poi che l’avida / Ma tu, cagion (from Libro V)
Volan, quasi farfalle
Se la mia morte (from Libro VI)
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) Madrigali no. 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12 (2007, 20’) from 12 Madrigali
Francesco Filidei (1973) Dormo molto Amore (2013, 10’) commissioned by Fondazione Spinola Banna
Noriko Baba (1972) Goshu (2013, 7’) commissioned by Fondazione Spinola Banna
Sarah Maria Sun soprano
Susanne Leitz-Lorey soprano
Truike van der Poel mezzosoprano
Martin Nagy tenor
Guillermo Anzorena baritone
Andreas Fischer bass
in collaboration with Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte
Friday 11 October
5:15 pm – Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
ENSEMBLE L’INSTANT DONNÉ / ALLA BREVE
Raphaèle Biston (1975) Rondo for flute, violin, piano, harp, percussion (2012, 10’) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France
Ryo Dainobu (1982) Der Spiegel im Spiegel for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano (2011, 12’) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France
Pasquale Corrado (1979) Pulse for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano, percussion (2013) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France
Eric Maestri (1980) Tre case for clarinet, string trio, piano (2012-2013) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France
Zad Moultaka (1967) Il regno dell’acqua for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion (2013, 10’-15’) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France
Cédric Jullion flute
Mathieu Steffanus clarinet
Saori Furukawa violin
Elsa Balas viola
Nicolas Carpentier cello
Caroline Cren piano
Esther Davoust harp
Maxime Echardour percussion
in collaboration with Radio France as part of the cycle, Alla Breve
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
ORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANA
MAÎTRISE DE RADIO FRANCE
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Ofaním for two instrumental groups, children's choir, female voices and electronics (1988/rev. 1997, 30’)
Altra voce for soprano, flute and electronics (1999,10-12’)
Monica Bacelli soprano
Esti Kenan Ofri female voice
Michele Marasco flute
Tempo Reale electronics
Danilo Grassi conductor
in collaboration with Orchestra della Toscana and Tempo Reale
Saturday 12 October
12:00 pm (noon) – Conservatoire B. Marcello
MARCO FUSI viola d’amore
Lorenzo Romano (1985) Chi ha paura delle maree (2012, 9’)
Andrea Mancianti (1981) Prosthesis (2012, 9’30’’)
Clara Iannotta (1983) new creation (2013, 8’) world premiere
Alessio Rossato (1977) Veglia (2013, 12’) world premiere
Federico Gardella (1979) Cinque notturni da braccio (2013, 9’) world premiere
Lorenzo Pagliei (1972) new creation (2013, 8’) world premiere
Andrea Mancianti electronics
3:00 pm - Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
AROUND LUTOSLAWSKI
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933–2010) For You, Anne-Lill op. 58 for flute and piano (1986 / rev.1990, 12’)
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) Sacher Variation for cello (1975, 5’)
Marcin Stanczyk (1977) new creation for flute, cello, piano (2013, 12’) world premiere - commissioned by Polish Institute of Rome
Pawel Mykietyn (1971) Sonata for cello solo (2006, 13’30’’)
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) Grave. Metamorfosi for cello and piano (1981, 7’)
Krzysztof Meyer (1943) Sonata n. 2 for cello and piano (2004, 25’)
Jacub Tchorzewski piano
Anna Armatys cello
Ginevra Petrucci flute
in collaboration with Polish Institute of Rome
5:15 pm – Sala dei Concerti at Conservatoire B. Marcello
MAKROKOSMOS QUARTET
Christian Mason (1984) Equinoxes of the Infinite – in memoriam Karlheinz Stockhausen for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists (2008, 10’) Italian premiere
Magnus Lindberg (1958) Related Rocks for 2 pianos, 2 percussionists, electronics (1997, 18’)
Michael Jarrell (1958) Assonance VIIb (Rhizomes) for 2 pianos, 2 percussionists, electronics (1993, 15’)
Ufuk Dördüncü e Bahar Dördüncü piano
François Volpé percussion
Sébastien Cordier percussion
Ircam electronics
8:00 pm – Sala delle Colonne - Ca’ Giustinian
ENSEMBLE ACCROCHE NOTE
Luis Naon (1961) Ultimos movimientos for voice, clarinet, electronics (2013, 15’) world premiere - commissioned by French Ministry of Culture
Yann Robin (1974) Art of Metal II for contrabass clarinet and electronics (2007, 11’)
Kaija Saariaho (1952) Lonh for soprano and electronics (1996, 17’)
Pierre Jodlowski (1971) Ombre della mente for soprano, clarinet, fixed sounds, texts by Alda Merini (2013, 15’) world premiere - commissioned by French Ministry of Culture
Françoise Kubler soprano
Armand Angster clarinet
Robin Meier music assistant
Sunday 13 October
12:00 pm (noon) – Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
PLURAL ENSEMBLE
Adriano Guarnieri (1947) Al crepitio del sole for string quartet, 2 trombones, soprano - freely adapted from Il canto del muezzin by Dino Villatico (2012, 22’) world premiere - commissioned by Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Madrid
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) Quartetto in Mi minore (1873, 20’)Fabián Panisello (1963) L'officina della resurrezione monodrama for string quartet, tape, baritone - original text by Erri De Luca and from the Book of Ezekiel (2011, 26’) Italian premiere - commissioned by Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Madrid
in collaboration with Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Madrid
in collaboration with Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Madrid
Leigh Melrose baritone (Panisello)
Laia Falcon soprano (Guarnieri)
Fabián Panisello conductor
3:00 pm – Sala dei Concerti at Conservatoire B. Marcello
FRANCESCO D’ORAZIO violin
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Sequenza VIII for violin solo (1976, 12’)
Kaija Saariaho (1952) «…de la terre» for violin and electronics (1991, 12’)
Fausto Sebastiani (1962) Agape for violin solo (2013, 8’) world premiere
Gianvincenzo Cresta (1968) Voci incroci for violin and electronics (2013, 12’) world premiere
Pierre Boulez (1925) Anthèmes II for violin and electronics (1997, 20’)
Ircam electronics
Massimo De Feo electronics (Cresta)
5:15 pm – Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
ENSEMBLE COURT-CIRCUIT
Roger Reynolds (1934) Thoughts, Places, Dreams for cello solo, flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, violin, percussion, piano (2013, 20’) world premiere – commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture
Frédéric Verrières (1970) Scarlatti – A visitation for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (2013, 20’) world premiere – commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture
Fernando Fiszbein (1977) New creation for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (2013, 10’) world premiere - commissioned by Radio France as part of the Alla breve cycle
Alexis Descharmes cello solo
Jean Deroyer conductor
in collaboration with Radio France and Court-circuit
8:00 pm – Teatro alle Tese
LES CRIS DE PARIS a cappella choir
Luca Francesconi (1956) Let me bleed (2001, 22’) Italian premiere
Marco Stroppa (1959) Perché non riusciamo a vederla? Cris, appels et clameurs for a cappella choir and viola (ad libitum) (2008-2010, 25’) Italian premiere
Mauro Lanza (1975) Ludus de Morte Regis for choir and electronics (2013, 30’) Italian premiere
Luca Sanzo viola (Stroppa)
Geoffroy Jourdain conductor
Gilbert Nouno, Manuel Poletti (Ircam) computer music design (Lanza)
Clément Marie (Ircam) sound engineer (Lanza)
Jeremie Henrot (Ircam) sound engineer
in collaboration with Ircam
MEETINGS
Thursday 3 October - 4:30 pm
Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
a meeting with Sofia Gubaidulina (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement)
Saturday 5 October - 11:00 am
Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian
Posterità di Wagner
a meeting with Renzo Cresti and Cesare Fertonani
chamber operas of 12’
first-stage development of the selected projects
first-stage development of the selected projects
