Interpret: Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
Leitung: Aron Ludwig

fractures (excerpt)

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Divagations (2022) For Four Percussionists
Commissioned by Olaf Tzschoppe and the Bremer Schlagzeugensemble. Cordially dedicated to Olaf Tzschoppe.

Performance: December 6th, Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater, Berlin. 

Bremer Schlagzeugensemble: YI Huang, Moritz Koch, Hsin Lee, Olaf Tzschoppe.

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Divagations (2022) For Four Percussionists

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Oumuamua for kanun and string quartet (2022) — “A messenger from afar arriving “first” for kanun and string quartet. Commissioned by Sonar Quartet with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

ZEITSTRÖME FESTIVAL – Tage für aktuelle Musik | SONAR QUARTETT / SOFIA LABROPOULOU kanun  | Akademie für Tonkunst, Darmstadt, Germany | Feb 11, 2023 | 19:00

Oumuamua for kanun and string quartet (2022)

The ensemble Construction Site (Neda Hoffmann, artistic director) performs my work “Au moins…” (2022) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, and piano at the formal opening of the International Review of Composers, Belgrade, Serbia.

u moins … (Fr. for “at the very least”) occurs in shifting times. What happened and what happens at every single moment punctuate each other… In reconstructions… Glimpses of the past are brought back to the flux of the present… Fragile interpolations enforce some semblance of unity… Until something, almost spontaneous, changes the way we orient to sound… On time… and beyond…

The work was commissioned by the ensemble iiiiiiiii and is dedicated to Seongmin Ji.

Papageorgiou, Au Moins - Belgrade 2023

timescales 2, 2023, for ensemble (15 musicians)

dedicated to Edo Micic and ensemble zeitfluss

Timescales 2 - for ensemble (15 musicians), dedicated to Edo Micic and ensemble zeitfluss

This piece is a personal reflection on war, or better said, just a fragment of millions of thoughts
and memories that come up every time a new war begins. As a child, growing up in Croatia during the Yugoslavian war in the 90ties, I often imagined bullets in slow motion. In this image, the bullet was an evil creature whose only power is to fly silently through the air and end every breath on its way. Later on, one discovers numerous layers of how war impacts life and society for a very long time, even after it is over. Populistic nationalistic streams, as well as dictators, execute brainwashing through emotionally charged terms.
Some of those terms found place in a satiric context of Richard Schubert´s aphoristic lexicon.

Spoken excerpts from "Richard Schuberth: Das neue Wörterbuch des Teufels"
EHRLICHKEIT : Eigenschaft, deren Schein am längsten währt.
HEIMAT : Der Ort, wo die Anderen sich gefälligst am unwohlsten fühlen sollen.
NOTWEHR: Legitimation zum Erschlagen von Außenseitern, durch die wir uns bedroht fühlen.
WELTANSCHAUUNG : Gegenteil von Weltbegreifung.
WUT: Der hilflose Versuch der Seele, Ohnmacht in Macht zu ver-wandeln.

Instrumentation:
flute (also bass flute), oboe, bass clarinet,
zither, dulcimer (hackbrett), accordion
violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, contrabass

Recorded by ORF, 16.11.2024 in Landesstudio Kärnten, Klagenfurt

The bullet that kills you has no voice (Bad Politics Part II)

Konohana - Concerto for clarinet and ensemble
Ensemble Court-Circuit
Pierre Dutrieu (clarinet)
Jean Deroyer (conductor)
Musica Festival, Strasbourg (France), October 6th 2017.

Konohana - Concerto for clarinet and ensemble

Au delà des nuages, l’endroit promis
Jean-Patrick Besingrand: composer
Platypus Ensemble
Bilgi New Music Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
May 12th 2018

Au delà des nuages, l’endroit promis

´the worlds within out petty voids´ for flute, oboe, violin, viola and cello.

Written for and premiered by ensemble recherche.

Recorded by Chloe Deng.

the worlds within our petty voids

Recording from the world premiere of VÍDDIR, February 19th 2020 in Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen.

Performers:
Bass Flute 1: Björg Brjánsdóttir
Bass Flute 2: Marie Sønderskov
Bass Flute 3: Flavia Huarachi
Bass Flute 4: Sofia Kayaya
Bass Flute 5: Beata Preisaite
Alto Flute 1: Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir
Alto Flute 2: Marina Cyrino
Flute: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir
Piccolo: Christine Elizabeth Clancy
NEKO3: Fei Nie, Kalle Hakosalo, Lorenzo Colombo
Bass Guitar: Skúli Sverrisson
Double Bass: Bára Gísladóttir

Recording: Alma Hede and Yangyadi (Chloe) Deng
Mix: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Photo: Therese Precht Vadum

VÍDDIR

chronolysis

The Greek composer Orestis Toufektsis (born 1966 in Tashkent/Uzbekistan) lives and works in Austria.

His compositional work is characterised above all by a specific formal thinking that increasingly questions the usual musical dramaturgy. While he incorporates non-musical sources of inspiration in the creation of morphological and rhythmic structures (self-similarity, combinatorics, graphic arts) and sometimes drastically limits the possibilities of processing his sonic material to a few selected methods, at the same time he follows very different compositional approaches in terms of form, pitch structure and harmony from work to work. The oeuvre thus includes 40-minute works for solo instruments (echochronoi) alongside 7-minute works for chamber ensemble (maskalda) and works whose harmony is derived exclusively from 3 finely tuned tetrachords (string quartet hommage á Machaut) alongside works with highly complex harmonic structures (timescales 4 for ensemble and piano automaton).

Timescales 2 - for ensemble (15 musicians), dedicated to Edo Micic and ensemble zeitfluss

Orestis Toufektsis

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