This short work for violin duo was written for the Swedish/German violin duo of Martin & Cecilia Gelland on the occasion of their visit to the Twin Cities in Fall 2013.  The work is inspired by the contours of the San Francisco Bay Area skyline and the contemplation of the catenary curve as an organizing structure.
Premiered 7 October 2013, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, University of Minnesota

Oberleitung for Duo Gelland (violin duo)

Jeremy Wagner is a composer and sonic tinkerer currently living in Berkeley, CA.

Duo Gelland - violinists Cecilia and Martin Gelland - revive forgotten gems with historically inspired insight, and in close collaboration with composers they bring new scores to life - so more than 200. Duo Gelland are deeply grateful to all those living composers of diverse ages, paths and nationalities dedicating works to them thus contributing to the repertoire of the violin duo making it richer and more heterogeneous for every new year.

Davor Vincze is a composer of contemporary music and artistic director of Novalis Festival, whose artistic focus lies on meta-reality and musical narrative that is implicitly stated or explicitly concealed. 
 
Davor Vincze uses the compositional method ‘microllage’, which recycles musical material in a quasi ecological way. With microllage, Vincze is looking for latent acoustic spaces and properties present, but mostly left unexplored in the pieces he is referencing, which often includes self-referentiality. In shivering, hazy textures, Vincze explores the parallax effect, juxtaposing or subtracting multiple perspectives on a limited number of ‘borrowed’ sonic gestures. This enables him to create a meta-reality that contains multiple layers of inexplicit & ambiguous meaning.

After completing his composition studies in Graz and Stuttgart, Vincze specialized in electronic music at the Ircam and finally completed his doctorate at Stanford University in the class of Brian Ferneyhough. His compositions have been performed by renowned international musicians like Ensembles Modern, Recherche, and Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Talea and Slagwerk den Haag, JACK, Mivos and Del Sol Quartet, Secession and No Borders Orchestra. Slovene and Zagreb Philharmonic etc, at festivals such as Présences, Impuls, MATA, Manifeste, Darmstadt, Zagreb Biennale and others. In 2014, he launched an international contemporary music festival - Novalis. His works are published by Maison ONA.

Vincze won Alvin Lucier Prize, 2nd prize at the Pre-Art Composition competition, Impuls Festival competition, and has been awarded many stipends in support of his studies and creations of new works. In 2020/21, Vincze was the winner of "Boris Papandopulo Prize” for the best Croatian composer of contemporary music, winner of the European Contemporary Composition Orchestra competition, winner of the best audiovisual work at the International Competition Città di Udine (Italy), as well as one of five awardees of 'New Music, New Paths' competition in Hong Kong, and he got selected for the artist residency both at the Institute of Electronic Music in Graz (2021) as well as at SWR Experimentalstudio (2022).

Oberleitung for Duo Gelland (violin duo)

Jeremy L Wagner