Events
13 Sep 15 Sep 2019
ECHOIC MEMORIES
Keiko Devaux
Michele Marelli
Francesco Dillon
Simone Beneventi
Alessandro Perini
Quartetto Maurice
Širom
Manuel Zurria
Francesco Platoni
Emanuele Torquati
10th EDITION music@villaromana, 2nd part
Quartetto Maurice: Giorgia Privitera, Laura Bertolino, Francesco Vernero, Aline Privitera
Sound installation by Alessandro Perini
Francesco Platoni
Širom: Iztok Koren, Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin
Manuel Zurria
Emanuele Torquati, Simone Beneventi, Francesco Dillon
Premiere of Echoic Memories by Keiko Devaux, Composer in Residence 2019
Quartetto Maurice, Simone Beneventi
Simone Beneventi
Fotos: Davood Madadpoor
The Echoed Memories will continue from 13 to 15 September, when the ten-year anniversary of the music@villaromana festival will also be celebrated by a reunion of artists engaged in these 10 years of musical adventures. Once again, a new Pocket Opera will be commissioned as a central element of the programme, entrusted this time to the Canadian composer Keiko Devaux. Her chief interest is in giving voice to the emotional experience of listening and, in this sense, there´s a strong connection with the anniversary theme. Starting from profoundly contrasting sound sources and her love for electroacoustic sounds, Devaux will conceive a singular form of journey through the areas of the Villa. This will include different stages and a mobile performance in which the musicians will guide the public in the discovery of hidden echoes. The spatial dimension and the public’s listening experience will be central in this new work composed during Devaux’s residence in the Villa. Echoic Memories is the evocative title of the Pocket Opera that will be the fulcrum of the 3 days in September. There will also be new sound installations by the composer Alessandro Perini, who lives in Sweden and has performed widely in Europe and Argentina. There will also be an authentic musical marathon involving a dazzling array of performers. The virtuosos Manuel Zurria on flute and Francesco Platoni, first double bass of the Rai Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, will perform solo pieces by Jacob TV and Stefano Scodanibbio. The clarinettist Michele Marelli, famous for his collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen and his performing talent, will present the Italian premiere of a piece by the English composer Anna Clyne and another recently dedicated to him by Marco Stroppa. Marelli will then be joined by Francesco Dillon for a work specially commissioned by music@villaromana from the Argentinian composer Oscar Strasnoy, particularly esteemed for his works of musical theatre. Next in line is the multi-faceted percussionist Simone Beneventi with a set inspired by the magical Libro Celibe by Giorgio Battistelli. Experimentations by the young Swede Johan Svensson will then lead into the ecstatic piece by James Tenney for solo gong as a cathartic finale to the festival.
The Quartetto Maurice, by now a permanent presence in the international panorama of the major festivals, will present the immersive Quartet no. 9 by Georg Friedrich Haas, to be performed in total darkness as part of an enquiry into perception that the great Austrian composer has been engaged in for many years. In the 2013 edition of music@villaromana, the Quartetto Maurice performed Quartet no. 3 - In iij Noct, and the listening experience of great emotional impact conceived by the iconic composer will be repeated in this edition. In addition to this work, still rarely heard in Italy, the Quartetto Maurice will propose Helmut Lachenmann’s masterpiece Grido, his Third Quartet, and the new work by the Roman composer Giuliano Bracci Tutto chiudi negli occhi, in which we can trace echoes of the 5-voice Motet by Josquin Desprez´s Nymphes de Bois (1518).
The most experimental and alternative element will be the Slovenian group Širom, which combines the roots of its native folk music in an efficacious mix with rock contaminations, achieving a particular species of mystic minimalism. All these are the features of a major music festival that contains echoed memories of the previous editions.
Program
13 September
6 pm
TALK AND PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK music@villaromana 2010-2019 IMAGINARY BRIDGES
with Keiko Devaux, Composer in Residence 2019, and musicologists Stefano Lombardi Vallauri and Elena Abbado
7 pm
SOLOS IN ECHO
Marco Stroppa, Il peso di un respiro (2015 - 2017), for basset horn
1 Sdoppiato, con pudicizia
2 Pulviscolante
3 And sing until he drop
4 Rintanato
Giorgio Battistelli, Il Libro Celibe (1976), for percussion
Anna Clyne, Rapture (2012), for clarinet and electronics
Oscar Strasnoy, 13th September 2019 from the cycle Tage-Buch, for clarinet and cello – world premiere, commissioned by music@villaromana
Henry Purcell, In Nomine (1680), for Ensemble
Michele Marelli, clarinet, basset horn
Francesco Dillon, cello
Simone Beneventi, percussion
*Pocket Ensemble
8 pm
OPENING
Sound installations by Alessandro Perini
9.30 pm
GRIDO
Giuliano Bracci, Tutto chiudi negli occhi (2018), for string quartet – Italian premiere
Helmut Lachenmann, Quartet n. 3, Grido (2001 - 2002), for string quartet
Quartetto Maurice:
Georgia Privitera, violin
Laura Bertolino, violin
Francesco Vernero, viola
Aline Privitera, cello
11 pm
PSYCHEDELIC IMAGINARY FOLK
Širom:
Iztok Koren, banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, objects
Ana Kravanja, violin, viola, ribab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, objects, voice
Samo Kutin, lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, bragongoma, mizmar, objects, voice
14 September
9 pm
POCKET OPERA
ECHOIC MEMORIES
world premiere
Music by Keiko Devaux, Composer in Residence 2019
*Pocket Ensemble:
Manuel Zurria, flute
Georgia Privitera, violin
Laura Bertolino, violin
Francesco Vernero, viola
Aline Privitera, cello
Francesco Dillon, cello
Francesco Platoni, double bass
Emanuele Torquati, keyboard
Simone Beneventi, percussion
10.30 pm
VOYAGE
Stefano Scodanibbio, Voyage that never ends (1979-1997), for solo double bass
Francesco Platoni, double bass
11.30 pm
IN-THE-DARK
Georg Friedrich Haas, String Quartet n. 9 (2016), for string quartet
Quartetto Maurice:
Georgia Privitera, violin
Laura Bertolino, violin
Francesco Vernero, viola
Aline Privitera, cello
15 September
11 am
DIFFERENT ECHOES
Jacob TV, Suppositions (2015), for solo flute – Italian premiere
1 Peace will come
2 So they tell us
3 Righ thing to do
Johan Svensson, One Man Band (2016), for percussion
Stefano Scodanibbio, N’Roll (2007), for double bass
James Tenney, Swell Piece #3 (1967), for Ensemble
Manuel Zurria, flute
Simone Beneventi, percussion
Francesco Platoni, double bass
*Pocket Ensemble
12 noon
RE-SONATE
James Tenney, Having never written a note (1971), for percussion
Simone Beneventi, percussion
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