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EVENTS

2012-10-19 -- 2012-10-27

GAIDA 2012


22nd International Contemporary Music Festival

19–27 October 2012

Vilnius

 

 

About the festival in brief:

 

  • One of this year’s leading themes – space: space in music, music in space, spectral and other spatial aspects;
  • Focus Composer: renowned Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas;
  • new projects for the John Cage centenary;
  • special attention to the other famous American composer Steve Reich;
  • greatest European and American performers, ensembles and soloists;
  • best Lithuanian musicians and orchestras, world and Lithuanian premieres of new works.

 


PROGRAMME

 

 

Friday 19 October

 

 

2 pm CAC Reading Room (Vokiečių g. 2)

 

Pre-concert talk with members of the BANG ON A CAN All-Stars

 

 

7 pm Contemporary Art Centre, Great Hall (Vokiečių str. 2)

 

BANG ON A CAN All-Stars (USA)

 

David Lang. Sunray (2006)

Michael Gordon. For Madeline (2009)

Julia Wolfe. Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2002)

Steve Reich. Electric Counterpoint (1987)

Philip Glass. Music in Similar Motion (1969)

Thurston Moore. Stroking Piece #1 (2003)

 

Tickets: Lt50–100

 

 

Saturday 20 October

 

5 pm Piano.lt Concert Hall (trakų str. 9/1)

 

PLURAL ENSEMBLE (SPAIN)

 

Ivan Fedele. Immagini da Escher (2005)

Lopez Lopez. Trio (2008)

Salvatore Sciarrino. Lo spazio inverso (1985)

Vytautas Germanavičius. New work (2012, world premiere)

Georg Friedrich Haas. Tria ex uno (2001)

 

Tickets: Lt20

 

 

7 pm Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, Main Auditorium (Aušros vartų str. 5)

 

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KARI KRIIKKU (clarinet, Finland)

Conductor ROLAND FREISITZER (Austria)

 

Albertas Navickas. New work (2012, World premiere)

Raminta Šerkšnytė. Fires (2010, Lithuanian premiere, world premiere performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons was on 17 May 2012 in Munich)

Ondrej Adamek. Dusty Rusty Hush (2007, Lithuanian premiere)

Kaija Saariaho. D’om le vrai sens (2010, Lithuanian premiere)

 

Tickets: Lt20–50

 

 

Sunday 21 October

 

5 pm St. Casimir's Church (Didžioji str. 34)

 

TUOMAS PYRHONEN (organ, Finland)

 

Onutė Narbutaitė. Road To Silence (1980)

Johannes Fritsch. IX ' 99 X (1999)

Vytautas Bacevičius. Rayons cosmiques (1963)

Rytis Mažulis. Canon sumus (2006–7)

Horatiu Radulescu. Christe eleison, op. 69 (1986)

 

Admission free

 

 

7 pm Arts Printing House, Black Hall (Šiltadaržio str. 6)

 

DANZA PREPARATA


Rui Horta | John Cage

Performance of modern dance and live contemporary music (2012, Lithuanian premiere)

 

Rui Horta (Portugal) – choreography, scenography, light design

Silvia Bertoncelli (Italy) – dancer

Rolf Hind (United Kingdom) – prepared piano

 

This year marks the 100 anniversary of John Cage, one of the most important composers and influential creators of the 20th century. In relation to this, GAIDA 2012 presents new production of world-famous Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta based on music by John Cage (“Sonatas and Interludes” for prepared piano).

 

This project is co-produced by Casa da Musica Porto, Salzburg Bienale, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen Hannover, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Festival Romaeuropa Rome, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbon and European Network ‘Réseau Varèse’ supported by Culture Programme of the European Commission.

 

Tickets: Lt30–50

 

 

Monday 22 October

 

6 pm CAC Reading Room (Vokiečių g. 2)

 

Pre-concert talk with Rebecca Saunders

 

 

7pm and 8 pm Contemporary Art Centre, Great Hall (Vokiečių str. 2)

 

ENSEMBLE MUSIKFABRIK (GERMANY)

 

Rebecca Saunders. Chroma XVII (2003–12, Lithuanian premiere)

 

This is the main project of the festival reflecting and revealing spatial theme of GAIDA 2012. Special architectural composition by well-known British composer Rebecca Saunders will be performed by one of the best European music ensembles “musikFabrik”. Various groups of musicians of this ensemble perform this work in different spaces of the venue, while audience can walk around the musicians inside the rooms and in the halls and to follow this ‘music journey’ not only in time but also in space, in one or in different spaces.

 

This project is co-produced by KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen Hannover, Salzburg Bienale, Festival MaerzMusik Berlin, Huddersfiled Contemporary Music Festival and European Network ‘Réseau Varèse’ supported by Culture Programme of the European Commission.

 

Tickets: Lt40

 

 

Tuesday 23 October

 

7 pm Contemporary Art Centre, Northern Hall (Vokiečių str. 2)

 

ENSEMBLE L‘ITINERAIRE (FRANCE)

 

Philippe Leroux. 3 bis, rue d'insister (2000)

Jean-Luc Herve. Intérieur Rouge (1993)

Marco Momi. Iconica (2010)

Mykolas Natalevičius. Evening in Vilnius Train Station (2012; world premiere)

Tristan Murail. Feuilles à travers les cloches (1998); La barque mystique (1993)

 

Tickets: Lt20

 

 

Wednesday 24 October

 

7 pm Contemporary Art Centre, Great Hall (Vokiečių str. 2)

 

STEVE REICH & AMADINDA PERCUSSION GROUP (Hungary)

 

Steve Reich. Drumming - Part One (1970–1)

Steve Reich. Nagoya Marimbas (1994)

Steve Reich. Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)

Steve Reich. Mallet Quartet (2009)

Steve Reich. Clapping Music (1972)

Steve Reich. Six Marimbas (1986)

 

Tickets: Lt50–100

 

 

Thursday 25 October

 

7 pm Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, Main Auditorium (Aušros vartų str. 5)

 

CAGE LINK


PETRAS GENIUŠAS (PIANO)

VLADIMIR TARASOV (PERCUSSION)

 

With the participation of:

Ieva Prudnikovaitė (mezz-osoprano)

Artūras Šilalė (violin)

Tomas Kulikauskas (percussion)

Kerry Shawn Keys (poet)

 

John Cage. A Flower (1950)

John Cage. In A Landscape (1948)

Vladimir Tarasov. Clock Shop at Night (2012)

John Cage. Nocturne (1947)

John Cage. 4’33” (1952)

John Cage. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)

John Cage. 27'10.554'' (1956)

Kerry Shawn Keys. Concert for Cage (2011)

John Cage. Six melodies (1952)

John Cage. Living Room Music (1940)

 

This is the second concert of music by John Cage in the programme of the GAIDA 2012, dedicated to the birth centenary of this legendary composer.

 

Tickets: Lt20–40

 

 

Friday 26 October

 

7pm Contemporary Art Centre, Great Hall (Vokiečių str. 2)

 

SINFONIETTA RĪGA

With the participation of the KAMER... choir (Latvia)

Conductor NORMUNDS ŠNĒ

 

Georg Friedrich Haas. REMIX (2007)

Georg Friedrich Haas. Unheimat (2009)

Justė Janulytė. Observation of Clouds for voices, double wind quintet and strings (2012; Lithuanian premiere)

 

Tickets: Lt40–60

 

 

Saturday 27 October

 

7 pm Vilnius Congress Hall (Vilniaus str. 6/16)

 

LITHUANIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Ernst Kovacic (violin, Austria)

Asmik Grigorian (soprano)

Mindaugas Zimkus (tenor)

Nerijus Masevičius (baritone)

Chamber choir „Jauna muzika“

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

 

Vytautas Laurušas. Symphony No. 4 (2011; world premiere)

Georg Friedrich Haas. Tetraedrite (2012; Lithuanian premiere)

Georg Friedrich Haas. Concerto for violin and orchestra (1998; Lithuanian premiere)

Algirdas Martinaitis. Summa (2012; world premiere)

 

Tickets: Lt15–40

 

 

Gaida Post Scriptum

 

Wednesday 21 November

 

7 pm Vilnius Congress Hall (Vilniaus str. 6/16)

 

GAVIN BRYARS ENSEMBLE (UK)

 

Gavin Bryars. Laudas (2002-12)

Gavin Bryars. The Flower of Friendship (2009)

Gavin Bryars. It Never Rains (2010)

Gavin Bryars. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971)

 

Tickets: Lt70–200

 


Festival's website: http://www.vilniusfestivals.lt/index.php?page=gd_programa_en

 

Organised by the PI Vilnius Festivals and Lithuanian Composers' Union

 

In association with:

Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society

Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra

Contemporary Art Centre

Piano.lt

LATGA-A (Lithuanian Agency of Copyright Protection Association)

Goethe-Institut Vilnius

L’Institut français de Lituanie

Deutsche Botschaft Wilna

Österreichische Botschaft Wilna

Embassy of the Spanish Kingdom in Lithuania

Embassy of the United States Vilnius

Baltic Legal Solutions Lithuania

Petro ofsetas

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