Chamber music/Ensembles

It is the streets and canals of Amsterdam in the Autumn. Melancholic tunes of street musicians, atmosphere of loneliness and light nostalgia slowly embracing you while getting lost..

Seven very talented young composers of today made an interdisciplinary program in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ working together with the Nieuw Ensemble, as well as various artists, from an actress to a jazz singer. Brand-new compositions, a sound sculpture, music-theater, were all presented in the Great Hall, offering to the audience an exciting glimpse of 2014′s new music scene.
 
The Nieuw Ensemble, Yoshiaki Onishi, Emre Sihan Kaleli, Mátyás Wettl, Igor Iofe, Flora Koene, Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Kate Moore presenting An Evening of Today.

https://soundcloud.com/nieuw-ensemble

Harrie Starreveld, Shakuhachi https://soundcloud.com/h-starreveld
Sarah Jeffery, Paetzold Recorder https://soundcloud.com/sarahjeffery
Igor Iofe, Piano https://soundcloud.com/igor-iofe
Herman Halewijn, Percussion 
Tristan Renfrow, Percussion
Hans Wesseling, Mandolin
Helenus de Rijke, Guitar
Ernestine Stoop, Harp
Rob Dirksen, Double Bass

http://aneveningoftoday.com/
http://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/2499/Nieuw_Ensemble/An_Evening_of_Today_2/

Cover image ©PavlovNM

Streets..

This piece was written specially for the second edition of the "Omnibus Laboratorium" in Tashkent in August 2006. The piece was inspired by Georg Heym's Berlin I:

Beteerte Fässer rollten von den Schwellen 
Der dunklen Speicher auf die hohen Kähne. 
Die Schlepper zogen an. Des Rauches Mähne 
Hing rußig nieder auf die öligen Wellen. 

Zwei Dampfer kamen mit Musikkapellen. 
Den Schornstein kappten sie am Brückenbogen. 
Rauch, Ruß, Gestank lag auf den schmutzigen Wogen 
Der Gerbereien mit den braunen Fellen. 

In allen Brücken, drunter uns die Zille 
Hindurchgebracht, ertönten die Signale 
Gleichwie in Trommeln wachsend in der Stille. 

Wir ließen los und trieben im Kanale 
An Gärten langsam hin. In dem Idylle 
Sahn wir der Riesenschlote Nachtfanale. 

Berlin I

'Child's Dream' for piccolo flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, percussions and piano has been performed live during the New Music Arena at the Conservatory of Amsterdam on the 1st of April 2010.

piccolo flute - Karolina Ogrodowska
bass clarinet - Rafael Rascón Barberá
violin - Anna Britala
viola - Katya Woloshyn 
percussions - Laurent Warnier
piano -Anne Veinberg 
conductor - Herzog Konradin

Child's Dream

This piece was inspired by and written for my classmates in conducting class taught by Lucas Vis:

Ella van der Woude voice, Jakob Lundbak alto saxophone, Jesper Ankarfeldt tenor saxophone, Eren Önsoy piano, Lennart Altgenug piano, Kristijan Krajnčan cello, Markus Larjomaa trombone, Igor Iofe conducter. It was performed at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam on the 6th of December 2012

The Crucial Point

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series