For e-gtr and live-electronics; Matthias Koole, e-gtr; S.Prins, live-el. (from SUB ROSA CD "Fremdkörper", www.subrosa.net )

Not I (Stefan Prins, 2007)

Booking: julien@noname.community

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Layers of sound, the beat is relentless yet soothing.

Carlton Vickers is internationally regarded as one of today's most important performers of avant-garde flute music, specialising in the most demanding works of the contemporary and electro-acoustic repertoire. Vickers has remained a ubiquitous presence for well over two decades as flute soloist with the acclaimed Canyonlands New Music Ensemble/Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series, and the Cleveland based NO EXIT New Music Ensemble.

In March/2013, Carlton Vickers presented the U.S. Premiere of Brian Ferneyhough's Sisyphus Redux for alto flute solo, as well as the U. S. Premiere of A Small Revelation for solo flute by James Erber. Subsequently, Boston/2015, saw the World Premiere of three major large format works for alto flute solo/electronics, James Erber's daunting  Desire Lines for solo alto flute, the massive (22 minute) streaming for solo Kingma System alto flute by Marc Yeats, and Constellations (Process and Static) for alto flute and electronic sounds by Massimiliano Viel, all dedicated to Carlton Vickers.

He has worked in conjunction with, and has won the admiration of, such prominent composers as Milton Babbitt, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Martin Boykan, John Cage, Eric Chasalow, Chen Yi, John Corigliano, Mario Davidovsky, Stephen Dembski, Jason Eckardt, James Erber, Richard Festinger, Don Freund, John Harbison, Jonathan Harvey, Jörg Herchet, Andrew Imbrie, Louis Karchin, John Kennedy, Arthur Kreiger, Stan Link, Steven Mackey, Donald Martino, Eric Moe, Tristan Murail, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Andrew Rindfleisch, Frederic Rzewski, Joseph Schwantner, Jeffrey Stadelman, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Harvey Sollberger, George Tsontakis, Massimiliano Viel, Scott Wheeler, Charles Wuorinen, Yehudi Wyner and Marc Yeats.

Mr. Vickers has appeared in concerts and recitals spanning four continents. Invitations include the Dresdener Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik, DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music), SEAMUS, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Cleveland Contemporary Players.
His performances are featured on Albany, Bridge, CRI, Capstone, Centaur and contextrecords.

Immigrant, nomad, traveller and sleepwalker. I make music too.

Audiovisual artist / electronic music composer from Tirana, Albania.

Winner of the prestigious Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for interpretation at the Ferienkurse für die Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Carlo is guitarist and multimedia artist, active within the experimental music and new medias.
He has performed all over Europe, in various national and international festivals such as the Stagione del Teatro "La Fenice" (Venice), Divertimento Ensemble - Rondò (Milan), at the Teatro "Mario Del Monaco" (Treviso) and TransArt Festival (Bolzano), Area Sismica and Crisalide Festival (Forlì), Festival Traiettorie (Parma), Teatro Aperto di Reggio Emilia, at SMOG, Nuits de Beau Tas, Ear To the Ground Festival and Kunstenfestival des Arts in Belgium, at Izlog Festival in Croatia, at Neue Oper Wien in Austria, at Time for Music Festival in Finland, at Warsaw Autumn in Poland, at Festival Ensems, Mixtur Festival, VANG Festival, SIRGA Festival and Universidad de Léon in Spain, SoundSpaces Festival in Sweden, NUMU Festival, Switzerland.  He was recently a guest soloist in the Ferienkurse für die Neue Musik in Darmstadt.

Siega collaborates with performers and composers, both as performer and new media artist, premiering remieres works by internationally renowned composers. His artistic partners include composers such as Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Chaya Czernowin (Israel/USA), Klaus Lang (Austria), Simon Løffler (Denmark), Julien Malaussena (France), Pauline Oliveros (USA), Stefan Prins (Belgium), Rebecca Saunders (UK/Germany), Alexander Schubert (Germany), Simon Steen-Andersen (Denmark), and Frédéric Verriéres (France).

His solo projects have met with appreciation from both critics and cultural organisations. In 2017 he received the artistic support by GAi and the Italian Minister of Culture, Can Serrat Artistic Support, while in 2019 Poly_Kosmos project received support from SACEM, and in 2021 full support for the realisation of the "IEG Project" recording project from the PSMSAD Fund of the INPS.

He has held seminars and masterclasses dedicated to new music, multimedia and the electric guitar at various institutions, including MUSAC and the University of Léon, the Conservatorio Superior "Bonifacio Gil" in Badajoz and the Conservatory of Vigo (Spain), the "Ischia Musica" summer courses, at the C.T.R. in Venice (musical improvisation linked to contemporary dance and 'contact improvisation'), "B. Marcello" Music Conservatory in Venice. During the Academic year 2020-21 he has been Guest Professor in electric guitar for contemporary music at "R. Franci" Conservatory of Music in Siena.

Carlo has also been awarded in many competitions including the 7th International Music Competition "Città di Treviso" section "Contemporary Music", special mention at the Competition for young talents "Val Tidone", and winner of scholarships, including "S. Vinti", Research-led Performance promoted by the "G. Cini" Foundation and the Orpheus Instituut in Gent. 

As academic, he has lectured at PARL_Next Generation (Linz), Method/Art Conference (Royal Conservatory of Antwerp), IRCAM Forum & Workshops (Paris), '21st Century Guitar Conference' (Lisbon), International Conference on New Music Concepts 2021 (Treviso), XXIX National Conference of the Italian Society of Musicology, and Orpheus Instituut Conference (Gent), EPARM 2023 (Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen), University of Gothenburg.

After graduating in guitar, in 2014 he obtained the MA with full marks and honours at the "B. Marcello" Music Conservatory in Venice, continuing his studies at the IrMus of the "C. Abbado" Music School in Milan, under the guidance of Francesco Zago, and the ICTUS Academy in Brussels and the KASK in Ghent, Belgium, under the supervision of Tom Pauwels, obtaining the MA of Arts in Contemporary Music, and the MA in Electronics Music & Multimedia Composition at the “G. Tartini” Music Conservatory of Trieste.