Premiere 12. 11. 2023

Nürnberg, Villa Treepe
Piano - Anne-Kathrein Jordan

Beta Lyrae

la poétesse et sa flute: monolouge. varations (2023)
for solo female voice (9')
Helēna Sorokina, contralto/mezzo-soprano

13.12.2023
Universalmuseum Johanneum
Graz
Austria
recorded by Carlos Gonzales Bolanos

la poétesse et sa flute: monolouge. varations was commissioned by and composed for Helēna Sorokina. The premiere was given on October 5h 2023 in Graz, during the ARTikulationen festival of Artistic Research and
is heartily dedicated to Esaias Järnegard, a great composer and friend.

la poétesse et sa flute: monologue. variations is a piece that stands between music and theatre field.
It is heavily based on A’s monologue found in Sarah Kanes Crave.
Along with this monologue, a text by the composer is used as well.
Both texts are provided below.
The composer’s work investigates the borders between theatrical and musical performance.
The soloist is seen as a modern version of a rhapsodist; singing (mezzo soprano) and reciting (poetess) are the main actions, while a third (flute) is also applied. These actions call for different ways of interpretation and different techniques to shape the voice accordingly.

Sarah Kane - Crave
A: Don’t say no to me you can't say no to me because it's such a
relief to have loved again and to lie in a bed and be held and
touched and kissed and adored and your heart will leap when
you hear my voice and see my smile and feel my breath on your
neck and your heart will race when I want to see you and I will
lie to you from day one and use you and screw you and break
your heart because you broke mine first and you will love me
more each day until the weight is unbearable and your life is
mine and you'll die alone because I will take what I want then
walk away and owe you nothing it's always there it's always
been there and you cannot deny the life you feel fuck that life
fuck that life fuck that life I have lost you now.

Zesses Seglias - Tombeau
My desire is reflected on you
You are the other me.
I exist not without you.
I am my desire.
But I am not what I want.
I try to sleep
Sleep is another state of my desire.
The reflection is absorbed.
The mirror is shut.
The dream is on

Zesses Seglias_la poétesse et sa flute: monologue. variations for solo voice

A sneak preview of two movements from the forthcoming release on Kairos in May 2017.

Recorded at City University with Mark Knoop (piano); mixed and mastered by Newton Armstrong.

XXI. Hotel

Dieter Schnebel: Maulwerke (1968-74)
a short audio sample from the newest version of this piece developed by the ensemble (Ariane Jessulat, Christian Kesten, Miachel Hirsch, Henrik Kairies, Kataria Rasinski, Steffi Weismann)



Schnebel: Maulwerke (Version 2010)

Marcelo Toledo
Geometrías fugitivas

Versión en vivo, sala Caviglia, Teatro Nacional Cervantes, Buenos Aires, 14 de septiembre de 2011. Ciclo de Música Contemporánea.

Toledo - Geometrias Fugitivas

SEGEL for orchestra (2016-17)

Piece for solo violoncello, soprano and electronics. Commissioned by the CIRM, National Center for Musical Creation in Nice. Performance: BETH ROOT SANDVOSS, violoncello and LAURA HYNES, soprano.
Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary, Canada.

New Voices, New Directions

Spleen

pour mezzo-soprano et orchestre de 34 musiciens. Inspiré du poème "Invitación al aire" de Rafael Alberti.
Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal. Dir. Véronique Lacroix, mezzo-soprano: Julie Boulianne, Montréal, septembre 2012.

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 ANALIA LLUGDAR
Analía Llugdar is a Canadian/Argentine composer who is currently based in Montréal, Canada. She studied piano and composition at Cordoba National University, Argentina. She continued her composition studies at University of Montréal, where she completed a Master with José Evangelista and a PhD in Music composition with Denis Gougeon. 

She has received several awards for her work, including First Prize in the chamber music category of the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers, the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada Award and the Grand Prix of the Canada Council for the Arts. Also, she has received the Contemporary Music Québec-Flandres Prize 2007, the Jules Léger Prize 2008, the “Prix Opus du compositeur de l’année 08/09 du Conseil quebecois de la musique” and recently the Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton prize of the of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Several of her works were performed at festivals including Montréal Nouvelle Musique (MNM), Conference of Contemporary Music (Brussel), the International Society of Contemporary Music Concerts (Flandres), Biennal Musique en Scène 2008 (Lyon), Royaumont Voix Nouvelles (France), Domaine Forget (Quebec), The 2008 Cornerstone Festival (Liverpool), Huddersfield New Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK), Presences China Concerts 2009 (Shanghai), TRANSIT festival in Belgium, Cervantino in Mexico,  MANCA in Nice etc.


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Analia Llugdar

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