for Violin and Percussion
Namascae Lemanic Modern Ensemble
Conductor: William Blank
Royaumont session de composition 2013
Royaumont Abbey, France

Convolutional Emergence

Natalia Prokopenko was born in Russia. 
She graduated from Composition faculty of Moscow State conservatory in 2010 cum laude. 
Natalia is a winner of composition competitions: The First All-Russian composers’ competition on YouTube (2010, II prize), IV International composers’ competition for youth “A Step to the left” (Saint-Petersburg, 2011, II prize), II International Myaskovsky competition for young composers (2012, diploma), VII International Jurgenson Competition of young composers (Moscow, 2013, I prize), II International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2015, diploma). 
In 2012 she was a student in the Second International Moscow contemporary music ensemble Academy, where she studied composition with Mark Andre and Klaus Lang.
In 2014 she was a participant of the 47th International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, where she studied composition  with Hans Thomalla, Mark Andre and Clemens Gadenstätter. 
Today Natalia is a member of Composers’ Union of Russian Federation. 



MAURIZIO BARBETTI won the  International Darmstadt Prize and the "Iannis Xenakis International Prize of Interpretation" in Paris. He played  as contemporary music soloist in the most important concert halls of the world: Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Berlin Philharmonic; Berlin Radio (playing “Mixtur” by Karlheinz Stockhausen at the presence of the composer); Salzburg Mozarteum; Opéra de Nice; Venezia Biennale; Gulbenkian Foundation; Hamburg (Staatsoper); Cochrane Theatre London; Darmstadt; Köln (Wdr); Witten, Frankfurt; Hannover; Heilbronn; Rottenburg (Südwestfunk); Wurzburg; Bonn; Bremen (Radio Bremen); Dresden; Leipzig; München (Konzerthaus) (Bayerisher Rundfunk); Freiburg; Baden Baden; Belfast (Bbc); Paris (Radio France); Strasbourg (European Parliament); Lyon (Grame); Orléans (Semaines Musicales Internationales); Lille; Siena (Accademia Chigiana); Milan (Triennale of Contemporary Art); Rome (Teatro Nazionale); Venice ( Sonopolis Teatro La Fenice); Turin; Madrid (Centro Bellas Artes); Conservatory of Milan; Oporto; Mexico (Festival Internacional Cervantino); Rottherdam (Igic); Tel Aviv; Jerusalem; Bucharest (Ateneum); Innsbruck (Konservatorium); Finland (Time of Music); Vienna; Sapporo; Tokyo and many others He played as soloist with prestigious ensembles like Ensemble Köln (where he was principal soloist viola from 1992 to 1996); Ensemble Recherche Freiburg; Concorde Ensemble Dublin; Icarus Ensemble; Roma Sinfonietta and with important orchestras like Orchestre de l'Opéra de Nice, Rte Dublin Concert Orchestra; Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia; Euroasian Philharmonic Orchestra of Seul. He performed the first Irish performance of Chemins II by Berio for viola and orchestra with the Radiotelevision Concert Orchestra of Dublin conducted by Friedrich Goldmann. (The conductor of Luigi Nono’s “Prometeo”). The concert was broadcasted live by BBC Radio3. Composers from all over the world dedicated to him many works among them Luis De Pablo, Horatiu Radulescu, Paul Mefano and Ennio Morricone of whom he performed and recorded in world premiere the  concert for viola. He collaborates with the “Living Theater” of New York. Maurizio Barbetti has given master classes in important institutions: Irino Foundation Prize of Tokyo; Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo); Tokyo Gakugei University; Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music (Tokyo); Vitasaari Summer Academy (Finland); Centro Nacional de Bellas Artes of Mexico City; Accademia Internazionale della Musica of Milano; Lucero Master Class in Paris. He recorded for the German, French, Swisse; English, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Rumanian, Austrian and Israeli radio and television broadcasting. He teached in many Conservatories: Mantova, La spezia, Matera and Reggio Emilia. He records cd for Col Legno (Vienna), Neos (Germany), Stradivarius (Milano) and Mode (New York). His latest CD dedicated to Kurtag has been reviewed with 5 stars by "The Irish Time" and "The Independent" London.

Diana Rotaru (b. 1981, Bucharest) has written from chamber and orchestral music to chamber opera and soundtracks for multimedia or dance shows and short films. Her music explores different expressive directions, from hypnagogia or pre-oneiric aesthetics, feminine psyche, humor or imaginary folklore. 

She is also active as a promoter of new music in Romania, as the artistic director of MERIDIAN International Festival and the main coordinator of the Romanian Music Information Center (CIMRO.ro). Since 2019 she is president of the ISCM Romanian National Section. 

Diana Rotaru has won numerous prizes, among which the Romanian Academy’s "George Enescu" Award (2010), the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award (World Music Days, Vilnius, 2008), the Irino Prize (Japan, 2004) or the "George Enescu" Prize ex-aequo (Romania, 2003 and 2005), as well as multiple awards from the Union of Composers and Musicologists in Romania. Her works have been commissioned by Ryoko Aoki (Japan), Ensemble XXI (Dijon), Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Pärlor för svin (Sweden), Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Takefu International Music Festival, etc. 

She was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (autumn 2007), on a George Enescu grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute. In April 2011 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur (Switzerland), at the invitation of Ensemble TaG, who performed her music in two concerts during that period (Verborgen in einer Muschel/ Hidden Inside a Shell – Theater am Gleis and Meet the Artist: Diana Rotaru -Villa Sträuli). In April-June 2015 she was Artist-in-Residence in Vienna, with a grant offered by the Austrian Federal Chancellery & KulturKontakt Vienna. 

Diana Rotaru is currently teaching composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Dediu (2000-2005) and where she has a PhD in Composition (with the dissertation "The Recent Trance and the Principle of Repetition in New Music", 2012). She also studied composition with Frédéric Durieux at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2005-2006). She participated at different summer composition courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006), or the International Bartok Seminary (Szombathely, 2003), thus working with Jonathan Harvey, Savatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough or Michael Jarrell, among others. In September 2018 she was invited to be an assistant professor to Toshio Hosokawa at the Takefu International Music Festival in Japan.

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Convolutional Emergence

Arash Yazdani