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STIMMUNG by Karlheinz Stockhausen performed live @ OPENING Festival 2014


STIMMUNG by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Klavierstück IX (1960)

Hayk Melikyan, piano
www.haykmelikyan.com

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX

Johannes Brahms  Rapsodie op.79-1 orchestrated by Kanako Abe in 1998

Claude Debussy  Etude pour les notes répétées orchestrated by Kanako Abe in 1999

Roaming in a Wood is a song for a quartet comprising two violins, a cello, and a flute. The theme, which glides from the strings to the flute, invokes a feeling of continuous bewilderment in an unknown realm.

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Roaming in a wood

CEPRY

A symphonic composition by Kordian Piwowarski
Cepry is a part of the Symfonia Tatrica project.
More information soon.

composed, arranged and produced by Kordian Piwowarski

featuring:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Tallin Chamber Choir 
recorded at Teldex Scoring Stage 
VST by Orchestral Tools

Mixed by Mania Studio
01.2025

all rights reserved Kordian Piwowarski

SYMFONIA TATRICA - CEPRY

Kira shares her vocal artistry, buy her sample pack now at Q Up Arts.

Kira Velvet Vox demo

MBA_Elp_Penguins2

QC-PitterPatter-1200 to 1216 Bar

for 6 players, TamTam and Live-Electronics

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie 1 (1964) - Tutti157 Auschnitt

Edgar Varèse (1883-1965) France-USA
"Ionisation" for 13 percussion players (1929–1931)
Kanako Abe, conducting
Live recording in Paris in 2003

Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)Ionisation for 13 percussion players (1929–1931)

As a composer, guitarist, and poet, Giuseppe Bonaccorso is firmly attached to atonal, avant-garde, and highly experimental music. A countercultural artist, he works out his music through original compositional processes never tied to mainstream culture.
#Guitar #Composition #AvantGarde

Japanese conductor living in Paris, born in Osaka in a family of artists, Kanako ABE got in touch with music at a very early age. 
After having obtained the diploma in composition in Tokyo and then 7 prizes at Paris Conservatoire (analysis, harmony,counterpoint, fuga, accompaniment, orchestration, conducting), Kanako Abe begins her career first as a pianist. Her recording of piano works by Toru Takemitsu(2002) was particulary welcomed by critics.
Since her debut as a conductor in 2003, she is regularly invited to conduct the contemporary works performed by the Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Ensemble Zellig, The Smash Ensemble(Spain), Festival Octobre en Normandie, Venezia Biennnale Festival, Festival GMEM (Marseille), Festival Contretempo in Villa Medici(Roma).
In 2005 she founded with the composer Yann Robin the french «Ensemble Multilatérale», a chamber orchestra for contemporary music where she is currently music director.
She has already made more than 80 world premieres in close collaboration with several composers including Martin Matalon, Jonathan Harvey, Michaël Lévinas and Régis Campo. Her discography includes three CDs monographic Régis Campo(1999, 2002, 2004) and a disc / DVD monographic Colin Roche.
While attending to her aesthetic interest to different style of music, she conducts the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava(Czech Republic), Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Orchestre Régional Bayonne-Côte Basque, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre Philharmonic de Nice, Orchestre National de Lille, Festival Orchestra of Mont de la Madeleine, Paris Conservatoire Student Orchestra, Amor Philharmonic Orchestra(Korea), Romanian National Radio Orchestra(Romania).
Lover of opera art since her childhood, she began her activities in this area with multiple experiences as rehearsal pianist, chorus director, opera coach with the Choir of Orchestre de Paris, Les Jeunes Choeurs de Paris etc.
She was an assistant conductor at the Opera National / Orchestre National de Montpellier in 2008-2009 (Aïda, The Bluebeard’s castle, Falstaff, Faust, Zauberflöte...), for the «Atelier Lyrique» at Paris Concervatoire (Orphée aux enfers -2004), Théâtre du Châtelet (Zauberflölte -2009), Rhin National Opéra (Macbeth -2010), Zürich opernhaus (Gesualdo -2010).
Kanako Abe has worked with many conductors and stage directors as Jerzy Semkow, Lawrence Foster, Enrique Mazzola, Alain Altinoglu, Friedemann Layer, Yutaka Sado, René Koering, Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Francisco Negrin, Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier.
In recent years, she gave concerts in France, Egypt, Italy, Spain, Korea, Romania and frequently in Japan.
She organized and conducted in April / December 2011 and in March 2012 at UNESCO, the charity concert for the victims of Earthquake and Tsunami in Tôhoku, sponsored by Japanese Embassy. 
Kanako Abe is also the President of French-Japanese Association for the Contemporary Music. , based in Tokyo.

Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)Ionisation for 13 percussion players (1929–1931)

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