SALT 2013

The SALT New Music Festival and Symposium is a one week event occurring from May 25th to June 2nd, 2013, at Open Space and at the University of Victoria School of Music in Victoria, BC, Canada.  The event is created, organized and hosted by the Tsilumos Ensemble, a quartet of musicians comprising Dániel Péter Biró (Guitar), Joanna Hood (Viola), Ajtony Csaba (Piano, Harpsichord and Conductor) and Kristofer Covlin (Saxophones).  The festival integrates local and international performers to present performances of groundbreaking new music to Victoria audiences.

The SALT New Music Festival and Symposium will present masterclasses for an international body of students of contemporary music. Bringing experts in the field of contemporary music to Victoria, BC, we hope to create a new framework for the study, research and performance of contemporary and electronic music in this one-week event.

In this year’s SALT New Music Festival and Symposium the Tsilumos Ensemble will premiere three new compositions by Wolf Edwards (Victoria, BC), Steven Takasugi (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Gianluca Ulivelli (Florence, Italy). The commissioning of these new compositions was made possible through a grant from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music. 

Guest artists of the SALT New Music Festival and Symposium include recent winners of the Darmstadt Summer Course Kranichstein Prize Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago, USA), multifaceted electroacoustic virtuosi the Experimentalstudio (Freiburg, Germany), renowned chamber music group the Quasar Saxophone Quartet (Montreal, QC) and Tuba soloist Max Murray (Berlin, Germany/Victoria, BC).  Invited composers include  Dániel Péter Biró, Wolf Edwards, Suzanne Farrin, Detlef Heusinger, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Steven Kazuo Takasugi and Gianluca Ulivelli.

The 2013 SALT Festival and Symposium offers a series of concerts, lectures, colloquia and masterclasses. Students of contemporary music from Canada and around the world are invited to apply to the program. Selected students will be given the chance to take part in lessons in composition and contemporary music interpretation. Composer applicants will be selected for reading sessions with the Tsilumos Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente and the Quasar Saxophone Quartet. Workshops in electronic music will be offered by the team of the Experimentalstudio (Freiburg, Germany) and Kirk McNally (University of Victoria).

All lectures, colloquia, reading sessions and masterclasses at the SALT Festival and Symposium are free of charge and open to the general public. Selected participants will also be able to receive individual lessons free of charge. Travel scholarships are available to talented applicants.

 

SALT New Music Festival and Symposium

May 25 – June 2, 2013

 

Saturday, May 25 2013, 2:00 PM

General Meeting of All Participants

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B115 (Music Lounge)

8:00 PM Concert of the Quasar Saxophone Quartet (Montreal, QC)

Open Space
510 Fort Street
Tickets $10 (students) and $15 (general public)

Program:

John Butcher (1954) Balance (2012)
Dániel Péter Biró (1969) Udvarim Achadim (2010, rév. 2013)
Donald J. Stewart (1970) …su Innocent X… (2012)
Jimmie Leblanc (1977) Fil Rouge (2012)
L. Andriessen (1939) Facing Death (1990)

Sunday, May 26 2013

10:00am-1:00pm Quasar Saxophone Quartet (Montreal, QC) Reading Session sponsored by the SOCAN Foundation

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

2:00pm-5:00pm Conducting Workshop with Ajtony Csaba 

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

 

Monday, May 27 2013

10:00am-1:00pm Conducting Workshop with Ajtony Csaba (University of Victoria)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

2:30pm-4:00pm Lecture by Wolf Edwards (Victoria, BC) 

“Discussion about Music and Anarchist Politics”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

4:30pm-5:30pm Tsilumos Ensemble (University of Victoria) Reading Session and Performance Practice Workshop

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

 

Tuesday, May 28 2013

10:30am-12:00pm Lecture by Gianluca Ulivelli (Florence, Italy) 

“My Connection to Paul Celan”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

2:00pm-4:00pm Max Murray (Victoria/Berlin) and Liam Hockley (Vancouver, BC) Reading and Workshop with Gianluca Ulivelli (Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

4:30pm-7:00pm Conducting Workshop with Ajtony Csaba (University of Victoria)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

7:30pm-9:00pm Dinner at Felicita’s Pub

University of Victoria
Student Union Building

9:30pm Film Showing

“The Matchstick Man”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

 

Wednesday, May 29 2013

 10:30am-12:00pm Lecture by Dániel Péter Biró (University of Victoria)

“Toward the Unknown: Parametrical Composition with Gematria”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

2:30pm-4:00pm Lecture by Kirk McNally (University of Victoria) 

“Improvisation with Live Electronics”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

4:30pm-7:00pm Conducting Workshop with Ajtony Csaba (University of Victoria)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

8:00pm-11:00pm Dinner and Roundtable Discussion

The Black Hat Restaurant
1005 Langley St

 

Thursday, May 30 2013

10:30am-12:00pm Lecture by Prof. Dr. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (Musikhochschule Leipzig, Germany)

“Dealing with ‘Content(s)’. Introduction into my music and the ‘Hommage à Brian Ferneyhough’”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

2:00pm-4:00pm Performers’ Workshop with Joanna Hood (Artist in Residence, University of Victoria)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

4:30pm-6:00pm Conducting Workshop with Ajtony Csaba (University of Victoria)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

6:00pm-8:00pm Reception for All Participants

University of Victoria
Lobby of Fine Arts Building

8:00pm-9:30pm Lecture by Detlef Heusinger (Experimentalstudio, Freiburg, Germany)

“The Flood (Sintflut)”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

 

Friday, May 31 2013

10:30am-12:00pm by Steven Kazuo Takasugi (Harvard University)

“Travelogue Through Two Decades of Sound Samples”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room A169

3:00pm-4:30pm Performance Workshop with Liam Hockley and Suzanne Farrin (SUNY Purchase, New York)

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B037

7:30pm-10:00pm Dal Niente (Chicago, USA) Reading Session

Open Space
510 Fort St

 

Saturday, June 1 2013

10:30am-12:00pm Lecture by Jonathan Goldman (University of Victoria)

“Inside Claude Vivier’s Composition Workshop”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B117 (Reading Room)

2:00pm-3:30pm Lecture by Suzanne Farrin (SUNY Purchase, New York) 

“Inner Voices: My Sound World and Petrarch”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B117 (Reading Room)

4:00pm-6:00pm Composition Master Class with Suzanne Farrin, Gianluca Ulivelli and Wolf Edwards

University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B117 (Reading Room)

8:00pm Concert of the Experimentalstudio (Freiburg, Germany) and Dal Niente (Chicago, USA) with Guest Max Murray (Tuba)

Open Space
510 Fort St
Program

Luigi Nono (1924 -1990) Post-Praeludium Per Donau (1988) for Tuba and Live Electronics

Mark Andre (b.1964) …hoc… (2006) for solo cello and live electronics

Mauricio Pauly (b.1976) Apartamento Polsen Apartamento Peterson (2013) for cello, tenor saxophone, and piano (WORLD PREMIERE)

Gérard Pesson (b. 1958) La Vita e Come L’Albero di Natale (1992) for violin and piano

Gérard Pesson: La Lumiere n’a pas Bras pour nous Porter (1994-95) for amplified piano

Aaron Cassidy (b. 1976): Asphyxia (2000) for soprano saxophone

Andrew Greenwald (b. 1980) Jeku (ii) (2011) for violin and cello WORLD PREMIERE

Detlef Heusinger (b. 1956) Abraum (1995) for violin, cello, piano, and live electronics

 

Sunday, June 2 2013

10:30am-12:00pm Lecture by Thomas Hummel (Experimentalstudio, Freiburg, Germany)

“The Experimentalstudio Inside Your Laptop”
University of Victoria
MacLaurin Building
Room B117 (Reading Room)

2:00pm-5:00pm Composition Master Class with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Detlef Heusinger

University of Victoria
McPherson Library
Room 051
(Music Seminar Room)

8:00pm Concert with Tsilumos Ensemble and Guests Max Murray and Liam Hockley 

Open Space
510 Fort St

Suzanne Farrin: ma dentro dove (2010) for solo clarinet

Gianluca Ulivelli: Dialoghi con Paul Celan (2013) for guitar, piano, saxophone, viola and live-electronics WORLD PREMIERE

Stefan Maier: Territories (2013) for Solo Bass Tuba WORLD PREMIERE

Wolf Edwards: The June 2 Movement (2013)  for amplified guitar, piano, saxophone and viola  WORLD PREMIERE

Intermission

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf:Hommage à Brian Ferneyhough (2013) for Solo Tuba WORLD PREMIERE

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: The Destinies of Halucinations (2013)  for guitar, piano, saxophone, viola and fixed media WORLD PREMIERE

 

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