for prepared piano and bass clarinet (2021)

United Instruments of Lucilin
Pascal Meyer piano
Max Mausen bass clarinet

a_priori [2013] for flute and cello

The rich overtone harmonies produced from subtly interlocked multiphonics dominate the trio klangNarbe (‘sound-scar’) for baritone saxophone, percussion and prepared piano (2014-15), a jagged soundscape whose topography is subject to constant erosion. The metallic timbres and noise spectra of a multi-coloured percussion section (frequently played with bows) are combined with multiphonics from the saxophone and the sounds of a prepared piano, which sometimes pro- duces 17-tone multiphonic clusters. The pianist also plays inside the instrument, producing sharp accents or glissandos with a hard plectrum or generating mi- crotonal cluster-surfaces with a double-bass bow. Here the tension between con- tinuum and event – between stationary surface and sharply etched crosshatching within multi-dimensional overlaps of sonic foregrounds and backgrounds – is typical of Khorkova’s music and assumes especially trenchant forms. The contrasts in the piece are its programme: ‘klangNarbe plays with the contradiction between contrasting compositional materials that are considered irreconcilable and yet are combined in the manner of a mosaic. I create bridges across the lines of frac- ture in this material, bridges visible as scars. The term sound-scars also applies to the work’s genesis, which extended over a very long period of time and was fraught with upheavals.’
The block-like events, separated by distinct gaps, give rise to violent outbursts and accentuations: harsh cluster hammerblows, drinking glasses scraped on thun- der-sheets, roaring glissandi as the saxophonist yells into the instrument. No scar without a previous wound...
Dirk Wieschollek

klangNarbe [2014-2015] for baritone saxophone, percussion and prepared piano

collision [2015] for ensemble

SWR Vokalensemble / ECLAT Festival, Stuttgart 2020

not me [2019] for choir

INSTALLATIONEN_II [2012] for organ

falsche Spiegelungen  [2012] for two prepared pianos

FLÄCHE [2011] for Ensemble

DUO [2011] for bass-baritone and multiphonics-piano

Beschwörung durch Lachen [2011] for soprano, polichord, cembalo universale, prepared piano

INSTALLATIONEN_I [2012] for organ

string quartet [2010]

VORderGRENZE [2010/2011] for clarinet, violoncello and piano

string quartet II [2017]

Marina Khorkova studied composition at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. After her academic work, she received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, and the German Academic Exchange Service, to continue her research at the State Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, among them from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Lieselotte Klein Foundation Berlin, and the Arts Foundation of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In 2011 she was awarded the DAAD’s Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and the Ernst-Krenek Prize from Impuls 2011, in addition to a commission for a new work for Klangforum Wien. &#13;
Khorkova’s works have been performed worldwide, by such ensembles as the Klangforum Wien, Thürmchen Ensemble and Ensemble Handwerk (Cologne), camerata variabile Basel, Ensemble Ascolta (Stuttgart), Kairos Quartet and Ensemble LUX:NM (Berlin), the Vinca Quartet (USA), Lyris Quartet (Los Angeles), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kiev), Trio Accanto (Freiburg), Archos Qaurtett (Poland), the Studio for New Music, the Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow).&#13;
Her works have been premiered at numerous festivals, most recently the musikprotokoll series with Klangforum Wien at the Steirische Herbst Festival 2012 (Graz), but also the Wittener Tage fuer neue Kammermusik 2012, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2014 (Staubach Honoraria Preis), Unerhörte Musik im BKA (Berlin), the tonArt-Festival (Esslingen), at the International Conference “Micronality. Praxis and Utopia” (Stuttgart), The New Music Triduum (Krakow), IN-BETWEEN Berlin  St. Petersburg, the Multimediales Festival “Sinfonie der Bilder” (Stuttgart), a double portrait concert as part of the “frau musica (nova)” series presented by Deutschlandfunk (Cologne), the project “Musikalische Lyrik – Das Lied als Experiment” in cooperation with the Neuen Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, and the “Moscow Autumn” festival of new music. Her works have been broadcast by numerous national radio services, including WDR 3 and ORF.&#13;
Marina Khorkova has also given numerous lectures and demonstrations of her research and works, and has been invited as artist-in-residence to numerous institutions, among them at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, the Music Academy Basel, and the Academy of Music Krakow.
Fellowships:
2013-Eckrnförde Künstlerhaus Otte
2014-Villa Sträuli Winterthur
2014-Villa Aurora Los Angeles
2015-Akademie Schloss Solitude
2015-Künstlerhof Schreyahn

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Marina Khorkova

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