Stefan Prins

COMPOSITIONS (selection)

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Contemporary composer's born in 1979. Please do not hesitate to send me names to add to the list.

1979

Extract from the premiere of "inhabit_inhibit" (2019-2021) for 4 spatialized quartets, 6 soloists and live-electronics, by ASKO|Schoenberg & Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, conducted by Baldur Brönnimann, with sound engineer Florian Bogner.
@Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij, Amsterdam, 24.2.2022.
Composition commissioned by Ammodo/Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij & Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Edit: Stefan Prins

inhabit_inhibit (2019-2021) - extract

"inhabit_inhibit", for 4 spatialized quartets, 6 feedback soloists & live-electronics (2019-2021). World premiere at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (24.2.2022) by ASKO|Schönberg & soloists of Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, conductor: Baldur Brönnimann, sound: Florian Bogner. 
For a video recording of this performance, go to https://youtu.be/PkVCB_kq1Lc
Commissioned by Ammodo/Muziekgbouw aan 't IJ & Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Editing&Mastering: Stefan Prins

inhabit_inhibit (2019-2021)

Live-recording of "Inhibition Space #2" for bass clarinet and live-electronics, by Georg Wettin (Ensemble Courage), at Hellerau, Dresden, on 6.11.2022.

Inhibition Space #2 (2021) - Live

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023) - LIVE

"I'm your body", for 14 musicians and 4-channel soundtrack. Live recording by WDR of the premiere at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 8th of May 2014, Teatersaal, Witten, Germany. Klangforum Wien, cond. Emilio Pomarico, sound-engineer. Florian Bogner, Peter Böhm.

I'm your body (Stefan Prins, 2013-14) - Klangforum Wien, E.Pomarico

For soprano, ensemble, live-electronics & live-video; Live-recording of premiere by Sarah Defrise (soprano), Ensemble Ascolta, Niklas Werani (sound engineer) & Stefan Prins (live-electronics) + Warped Type (video + scenography) at Festival NOW! Essen, Philharmonie Essen, 29.10.2023.

"skin deep #1" was commissioned by Festival NOW! Essen & Ensemble Ascolta with funding from the Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württenberg

Recording by Niklas Werani, mixing & mastering by Stefan Prins

skin deep #1 (Stefan Prins, 2023)

For piano and live-electronics. 
Piano: Stephane Ginsburgh; Live-electronics: Florian Bogner (ICST) & Stefan Prins. 
Live-recording 31/7/2016, CentralStation, Darmstadt, during the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2016.
In coproduction with Ultima Festival Oslo, deBijloke Gent, ICST Zürich and Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt.

Piano Hero #3 (Stefan Prins, 2016)

Mc Guffin - I (2016)by Suono Móbile Ensemble

Françoise Kubler soprano
Armand Angster clarinette
Christophe Beau violoncelle
Sylvie Reynaert percussion
Wilhem Latchoumia piano
Emmanuel Séjourné direction

Score : https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/vocal-music/2323-poemes-enchaines

Poèmes enchaînés pour sop., cl.,pno.,perc. et vlc. (2017)

Nachtschatten (Stereo Version)

For clarinet+bass clar, percussion, piano, cello and soundtrack.
Premiere performance by Decoder Ensemble, Hamburg, 2nd of September 2017.

Hände ohne Orte (Stefan Prins, 2016-17)

Francesca Verunelli - DI Mondegreen

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Sleep Lullaby Baby Music Chioru Repeat Miorita Chichiritza Ritza Chirita Chiritescu

First 7 (of 42) minutes.  Klangforum Wien, cond. Bas Wiegers. Full recording released by KAIROS (https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0015044kai), 27/3/2019

Third Space (2016-2018) - FRAGMENT

22 Km

„Necântec - cu Nichita în gând” - pentru fagot și cvintet de coarde
Ansamblul PROFIL
Dirijor: Dan Dediu
Solist: Cristian Buciumaș
Sala Studio a AMGD
Festivalul Cluj-Modern, 7 aprilie 2019

Necântec - cu Nichita în gând

La Comédie

Brahms Clarinet Trio, 1st Mov
Ensemble Musica Viva - Andreea Butnaru (piano), Andrei Theodoru (clarinet), Florin Mitrea (cello)
Live in concert, Radio Hall Bucharest, February 2008